The head of a European Union military task force in the Mediterranean Sea says Libya's coastal cities are generating up to 325 million euros ($346 million) in revenue each year from people smuggling.
A Kenyan prosecutor has charged two Iranian men with collecting information to facilitate a terrorist act after they were allegedly found with video footage of the Israeli embassy.
Officials say former American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, one of the first men to walk on the moon, has been evacuated by plane from the South Pole for medical reasons.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry is saying that Islamabad welcomes U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's overtures, saying that Trump told Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that Pakistan is "amazing" and its citizens are "one of the most intelligent people."
Former Polish president and Solidarity founder Lech Walesa says he does not believe corruption allegations that prosecutors have made against another legendary activist of the 1980s freedom movement.
Turkey's prime minister has met with the country's nationalist party leader to discuss plans for constitutional reforms that would usher in a system expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers.
With Christmas fast approaching, decoration makers at one of Russia's oldest glass factories are working overtime to get their creations ready to be hung on trees across the country.
A 15-year-old boy in Britain has been charged with murder in the killing of a Polish man in the weeks after the U.K.'s vote to leave the European Union.
Voters in the tiny West African nation of Gambia cast marbles Thursday in an election widely expected to keep the country's ruler of more than two decades in power despite a unified effort by the opposition.
The United Nations population agency says the world's population grew to 7.4 billion in 2016, with a substantial youth bulge challenging political and social systems across the planet.
President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia hopes to normalize ties with the U.S. and join efforts in the fight against international terrorism.
Turkey's prime minister has met with the country's nationalist party leader to discuss plans for constitutional reforms that would usher in a system expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers.
Turkey's prime minister has met with the country's nationalist party leader to discuss plans for constitutional reforms that would usher in a system expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers.
Italian police have arrested the fugitive boss of a powerful 'ndrangheta clan who ran illegal operations from the southern Calabria region north to Lombardy.
