Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says Russia could break diplomatic ties with Ukraine over reported security incidents in Crimea, something it did not do even after annexing Crimea or throwing its support behind separatist rebels in the east.
The U.N. refugee agency says more than 100,000 people have been displaced as Iraqi forces clear territory ahead of the critical battle for Islamic State-held Mosul -- a dire statistic raising concerns that a million more could be displaced from in and around Iraq's second-largest city as the operation moves forward.
The Philippine president says he wants to hold peace talks with the two largest Muslim rebel groups in the south at the same time and prefers to negotiate rather than confront China on their territorial disputes.
Japan's embassy in China is urging its citizens to pay more attention to their safety while in the neighboring country as sensitive anniversaries and territorial tensions might exacerbate anti-Japanese sentiments.
The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency says it has put the Identitarian Movement, a group that rails against "mass immigration" and calls for "an end to the Islamization of Europe," under observation.
China's auto sales growth accelerated in July, rising 26.3 percent over a year earlier, and General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. reported new demand records for the month.
A blast from a suspected grenade and gunshots rocked a Philippine jail, leaving 10 inmates dead, including two alleged Chinese drug criminals, officials said Friday.
A court has ordered the formal arrest and jailing of the former deputy governor of Romania's central bank on suspicion of illicitly receiving 1 million euros ($1.1 million) when he was parliament speaker.
A lawyer says one of three London schoolgirls who traveled to Islamic State-controlled area of Syria to become "jihadi brides" is believed to have been killed in an air strike.
Once bustling with hundreds of party supporters and supplicants from far-flung towns, the headquarters of India's Congress party wears a deserted air these days.
The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits from its beaches, citing security reasons -- a measure some are decrying as a discriminatory anti-Muslim move that only worsens religious tensions.
A tip from the FBI triggered what Canadian police on Thursday called a "race against time" as police scrambled to identify and locate a balaclava-wearing would-be suicide bomber they feared was on the verge of committing a terror attack in Canada.
Japan is searching for eight Chinese crewmembers missing after their fishing boat collided with a cargo ship off disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Tourists huddled in their hotel rooms and ducked inside buildings after bombs, one after another, exploded in at least four areas of Thailand, including popular beach cities, killing at least four people and wounding dozens more.
The German economy, Europe's biggest, grew 0.4 percent in the second quarter — a slower pace than in the previous three-month period but better than economists had forecast.
Japan's Sharp Corp. says China has become the final government to approve the acquisition of the Japanese electronics maker by the Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones and the tie-up will go ahead soon.
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