A French organization’s upcoming “burqini”-only day for Muslim women at a water park is coming under fire from far-right politicians – with the town’s mayor vowing to ban it outright.
The archbishop of Guam told church investigators to contact those who say they were sexually abused by clergy after learning this week that another former altar boy accused a priest of molesting him decades ago.
Italian lawmakers have passed legislation to cut down on food waste, making it easier to donate food directly to the needy and promoting containers for restaurants to help Italians overcome their aversion to doggy bags.
US Africa Command on Thursday released the first video from this week's round of airstrikes targeting Islamic State forces in their Libyan stronghold of Sirte, part of a ramped-up campaign against the terror network there.
Abubakar Shekau says he still leads Boko Haram, exposing the biggest rift yet among Nigeria's Islamic insurgents and possibly paving the way for a break from the Islamic State group.
Police in Bangladesh say they have arrested a British man and a University of Toronto student for their alleged involvement in last month's deadly attack on a restaurant by radical Islamists.
Pope Francis called on followers to offer forgiveness to those who wrong them during a pilgrimage to his namesake's hometown marking the 800th anniversary of the Feast of Pardon initiated by St. Francis.
A court in Turkey issued a formal warrant Thursday for the arrest of US-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who the government accuses of being behind the failed July 15 coup that left more than 270 people dead.
Lawmakers in Greece have approved construction of a state-funded mosque near central Athens — a proposal that triggered dissent within the coalition government amid a heated public debate on how manage the migrant crisis.
Taliban militants in western Afghanistan Thursday attacked a convoy carrying foreign tourists, including Americans, leaving at least six people injured, officials in the region told several news agencies.
Aid agencies say they have delivered a month's worth of food and supplies to more than 75,000 Syrians stuck on Jordan's sealed border, using cranes to lift bags from the Jordanian side over an earthen barrier along the frontier.
Nigeria's government has resumed paying stipends to former militants even as security forces' air and ground assaults have reportedly killed scores of fighters disrupting petroleum production in the oil-rich Niger Delta.
Italy's justice minister says that top investigators are looking into whether the Islamic State group is playing a role in managing the flow of migrants from Libya.