Jordan's largest camp for Syrian refugees has switched on a revamped electricity network, equipping 80,000 residents with nine hours of steady power per day.
For the second time in a month, Russian jets bombed US-trained rebels in Syria, this time conducting two separate strikes on Tuesday, multiple US military officials in Baghdad told Fox News.
A London-based organization that campaigns for environmental rights says two of its employees have been expelled from Congo after being accused of trying to incite a revolt.
Britain's new foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has a long history of making provocative and sometimes insulting comments that are distinctly undiplomatic in their tone.
German drug and chemicals firm Bayer says it has increased its offer for U.S. seed company Monsanto Co. to $125 per share from its initial bid of $122 per share.
Food and medicine have begun to dwindle in the city of Aleppo after an advance by Syrian regime forces effectively cut off the only road into the rebel-held side of the divided city, residents and opposition leaders said Wednesday.
The lawyer for a real estate developer convicted Thursday in a deadly courthouse rampage that left three dead called "incredible" his client's surprise declaration that he had hidden his weapon in the courthouse months before the shooting.
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo on Thursday began putting on display the country's oldest papyruses, which date back 4,500 years, detailing the daily life of the pyramid-builders.
French President Francois Hollande says that the state of emergency, in place since attacks in January claimed by the Islamic State group, will be lifted July 26, but he stressed that the threat continues.
French President Francois Hollande says that the state of emergency, in place since attacks in January claimed by the Islamic State group, will be lifted July 26, but he stressed that the threat continues.
A report from the United Nations' human rights arm has strongly criticized both sides in Ukraine's fighting for the killing of civilians in indiscriminate shelling, as well as summary executions of both combatants and civilians.
Thailand's military government has tightened its control on electronic media ahead of a referendum next month on a draft constitution, giving the country's telecommunications authority power to shut down any radio or television station whose broadcasts are judged to threaten national security.
An Egyptian court has sentenced 10 protesters to three years in prison for holding demonstrations against President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's decision to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.
Two Chinese aircraft landed on disputed reefs and Beijing's coast guard reportedly blocked a Filipino fishing boat from a contested shoal, in acts of defiance after a landmark ruling found China's vast claims in the South China Sea legally baseless.
A Dutch court has sentenced a 44-year-old man to 30 days imprisonment for calling the country's king a "murderer, rapist and thief," in a rare use of a law against insulting the monarch.