To understand what the Kremlin thinks about the prospect of Hillary Clinton becoming the U.S. president, it was enough to watch Russian state television coverage of her accepting the Democratic nomination.
German leaders on Sunday paid respects to the victims of the July 22 mass shooting in Munich and sought to calm a public unsettled by a series of attacks.
Syrian rebels launched an offensive aimed at breaking the government's siege of eastern Aleppo on Sunday, where the U.N. estimates some 300,000 people are trapped with dwindling food and medical supplies.
Tens of thousands Congolese gathered in the capital Sunday at an opposition rally calling for the president to step down at the end of his mandate in December, and urging elections take place as scheduled in November.
The head of the Palestinian soccer federation has submitted a complaint to the international soccer governing body, FIFA, after Israel prevented seven soccer players and staff from traveling from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank.
Hamada Bayloun is not particularly religious, but across his entire upper back spreads a large tattoo of the most revered saint in Shiite Islam, Imam Ali.
The U.S. embassy and other foreign missions have urged the Maldives president to return to the path of democracy saying they are concerned over what they call recent erosions of fundamental freedoms and institutions of democracy in the archipelago state.
Greece's fire service says a fire has been raging in a mountainous part of the island of Evia in central Greece for the second day in a row, burning well over 5,000 acres (2,000 hectares) of forest and forcing authorities to evacuate a village, a monastery and a hotel.
The Metropolitan Police commander says London eventually will suffer another Islamic extremist attack and his force is more committed to use lethal force because of atrocities in neighboring France.
Greek police say they have detained 25 anarchists who burst into the cathedral in the northern city of Thessaloniki and interrupted a Mass, chanting slogans and dropping flyers.
An Egyptian court has confirmed a one-year prison term for a former TV host who was convicted of "defaming religious symbols" and Muslim scholars after he called for removal of what he described as "extremist material" in texts of religious interpretation and heritage.
Turkey's foreign minister is demanding that the European Union say when its citizens will be granted visa-free entry and adds that, if the rules aren't loosened, Ankara will back off a deal to stem the flow of migrants into Europe.
Thousands of people gathered in the German city of Cologne on Sunday to denounce the failed July 15 coup in Turkey and show support for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with a heavy police presence in place.
Munich is paying tribute to the victims of the July 22 shooting in which nine people were killed with a church service attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck.
Turkey's soccer agency says all of its officials on sports committees have resigned to help the investigation into the Gulen movement, which the country's government says was behind the failed July 15 coup that left more than 200 people dead.