The United Nations-backed Libyan government has announced that the U.S. military has begun conducting airstrikes against the Islamic State group at the government's request.
A Nigerian commission of inquiry finds the army gunned down 348 Shiites in an attack in which one soldier died and urges the prosecution of all those involved in the killings.
A French prosecutor has thrown out the case of a prominent cardinal who was under investigation for alleged failure to report suspected pedophilia by a priest under his watch.
Spain's top court has acted to block an attempt by pro-independence parties in Catalonia to move ahead with their secession plans in defiance of a previous ruling.
European governments are losing track of significant numbers of children who have entered the continent without their parents as refugees from war-torn areas in the Middle East and beyond.
A small emirate in the United Arab Emirates has accused a businessman who once ran its local sovereign wealth fund of "global embezzlement and mismanagement of $1.5 billion." A spokeswoman for the businessman, Khater Massaad, declined to immediately comment Monday when reached by The Associated Press.
Nearly 200 firefighters, assisted by water-dropping aircraft, fire engines and volunteers, are fighting a large forest fire that has raged through the Greek island of Evia for three days.
Serbia has strongly protested to Croatia against the unveiling of a statue honoring an independence fighter who assassinated a Yugoslav ambassador to Sweden in 1971.
A Russian transport helicopter was shot down in opposition rebel territory in northern Syria on Monday and all five crew and officers onboard were killed, the Kremlin said, in the deadliest single incident for the Russian military since its involvement in Syria's civil war.
The European Union says Turkey must respect all the conditions of its migrant deal with the bloc before it can secure visa-free travel to Europe for its citizens.
Zimbabwe police have arrested a leading official of the veterans association as he stepped out of a courthouse where a colleague is answering charges of insulting the president.
The Philippine president says he hopes his government can resume peace talks with communist guerrillas later this month despite his withdrawal of a ceasefire order after the rebels killed a militiaman in an attack.