Amid China's outrage over an international tribunal that rejected its territorial claims in the South China Sea, the country is using new language that some experts say shows Beijing wants to be more flexible.
Human Rights Watch says members of Rwanda's security forces are arresting poor people who are arbitrarily detained in "transit centers" described as harsh and inhuman.
China's hand-picked Panchen Lama is presiding over a key Buddhist ritual being held in Tibet for only the first time in 50 years, in a move criticized by overseas Tibetan groups.
Albanian parliamentary speaker has temporarily postponed voting on a judicial reform package considered key to convincing the European Union to launch membership negotiations with the Balkan country.
France's interior minister has acknowledged there was no national police presence at the entrance to the pedestrianized walkway in Nice during the Bastille Day truck attack that killed 84 people.
Automaker Daimler says its net income rose 3 percent to 2.4 billion euros ($2.6 billion) in the second quarter and expects continued sales growth this year despite heightened uncertainties in the world economy.
Economists expect the European Central Bank to keep its current levels of stimulus unchanged despite worries about how Britain's vote to leave the European Union will affect the economy.
Poland's prime minister is hosting her counterparts from the Visegrad Group of central European countries for talks on the European Union's future in the wake of Britain's decision to leave the EU.
Turkish lawmakers are expected Thursday to approve President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's request for a three-month state of emergency in the wake of last week's failed coup.
A German hospital says two of the three victims it is treating for wounds inflicted during an ax-and-knife attack by an Afghan refugee are in a critical but stable condition.
More than 50 people have been injured in clashes near a police station in Armenia's capital where armed men have been holding hostages for four days and protesters erected barricades on a nearby avenue.
Bangladesh's High Court has sentenced a son of the country's opposition leader to seven years in jail in a money laundering case, overturning an acquittal handed down by a lower court.
The U.S. says more than $1 billion has been stolen from a Malaysian fund by people close to Prime Minister Najib Razak, who has struggled to explain the scandal since it erupted more than a year ago.