For the first time since the war of the 1990s, an ethnic Serb has been elected as mayor of the Bosnian town whose name is synonymous with a slaughter carried out by Serbs.
A South Sudanese rebel spokesman has been deported to South Sudan over a Facebook posting, a Kenyan official said Friday, while colleagues feared for his life and human rights workers and a relative said he was a registered refugee with a U.S. green card.
Tens of thousands of hard-line Muslims converged Friday on the center of the Indonesian capital to demand the arrest of its minority-Christian governor for alleged blasphemy.
A car bomb attack in the largest city in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast region killed eight people Friday, hours after authorities detained at least 12 pro-Kurdish legislators for questioning in terror-related probes.
The Paris Agreement to combat climate change becomes international law on Friday — a landmark demonstrating that countries are serious about tackling global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming hotter faster than scientists expected.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye took sole blame Friday for a "heartbreaking" scandal that threatens her government and vowed she will accept a direct investigation into her actions amid rising suspicion that she allowed a mysterious confidante to manipulate power from the shadows.
Syrian rebels launched a fresh wave of attacks on government-controlled western Aleppo on Thursday, killing 12 civilians and wounding 200 according to state media, one day before a 10-hour "humanitarian pause" unilaterally declared by Moscow was set to take effect.
A passenger train crashed into the back end of another in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least 19 people and injuring 50, officials said.
The former Iranian prosecutor who was known by Human Rights Watch to be a “serial human rights abuser” was sentenced Wednesday to 135 lashes on charges stemming from a corruption trial, Reuters reported.
Britain's plans to leave the European Union hit a large speed bump Thursday, as the High Court ruled that the government can't start exit negotiations without a vote in Parliament.
The help, which ranges from tipoffs in immigration interviews to networks of amateur investigators, has been both a blessing and a burden for officials.
The mother of an American journalist who vanished in Syria in 2012 is urging everyone to encourage and remind President Obama of his “obligation” to bring her son home.
Britain's High Court has ruled that the prime minister cannot trigger the U.K.'s exit from the European Union without Parliament's approval — a decision that complicates an already confusing situation riddled with uncertainties.
The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group released a new message urging followers to keep up the fight for Mosul as they defend the city against a major offensive aimed at routing the militants from their last urban stronghold in Iraq.
Poland's interior minister says thousands of officers will be providing security next week during Independence Day observances in Warsaw that previously led to violent clashes between politically opposed groups and with police.
Albania's Education Ministry says it has told Turkish schools funded by U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen to stop using Turkey's flag and other symbols.
As bullets fly in Mosul, the rural roads leading west are choked with traffic – much of which is believed to be ISIS fighters fleeing to the terrorist army’s Syrian stronghold some 275 miles away in Raqqa.
Traian Basescu, the ex-president of Romania, has become a Moldovan citizen and says he may get involved in politics in the troubled former Soviet republic.