Germany's top security official is praising the detention of a suspected extremist in Berlin, saying it shows authorities are being vigilant and doing "everything to avoid terrorist attacks in Germany."
A legal adviser to Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says the premier has submitted a written response to the Supreme Court denying allegations he held offshore bank accounts.
Belgium has given approval in principle for the eventual extradition of a suspect in the 2014 attack on the Brussels Jewish museum to France, where he is wanted in another case.
A jealous Russian teenager hacked off the head of his love rival, then took it to show his “distraught” girlfriend to prove his love for her, police have said.
Two US service members and 26 Afghan civilians were killed Thursday during a joint raid by US and Afghan forces targeting senior Taliban commanders -- rare combat deaths for Western forces who handed over the task of securing Afghanistan to local troops some two years ago.
A Syrian asylum-seeker has been convicted of three counts of attempted murder for throwing his children--including his 1-year-old-- out of the window of a refugee home in Germany. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Survivors say as many as 240 people have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, the U.N. refugee agency reported Thursday -- bringing this year's toll to more than 4,220 migrants dead or missing in risky Mediterranean Sea crossings, the highest count on record.
Survivors say as many as 240 people have died in two shipwrecks off Libya, the U.N. refugee agency reported Thursday, bringing this year's toll to more than 4,220 migrants dead or missing in risky Mediterranean Sea crossings, the highest count on record.
The Gambia soccer federation says it believes that women's national team goalkeeper Fatim Jawara may have died while trying to cross from Libya to Europe on a boat.
Turkey's president has harshly criticized Germany, accusing it of supporting terrorism and slamming comments suggesting Berlin may not extradite suspects wanted by Turkey if it considers the case is politically motivated.
Pakistan's foreign ministry says an Afghan woman who gained fame in 1984 after a photograph of her as a refugee girl was published on the cover of National Geographic has been hospitalized after falling ill while in custody.
A Syrian asylum-seeker has been convicted of three counts of attempted murder for throwing his children out of the window of a refugee home in Germany.
New, tougher EU rules on processing asylum-seekers have prompted Italian police to abuse some migrants, including beating them and giving them electric shocks, according to a report published Thursday by Amnesty International.
Geneva authorities have confiscated 11 luxury vehicles and sports cars belonging to the son of Equatorial Guinea's president as part of a preliminary investigation into alleged corruption.
French financial prosecutors have asked judges to send HSBC and two former executives to trial on charges of aggravated tax fraud by its Swiss private bank.
A Muslim rebel leader has come out of three years of hiding in the southern Philippines to meet the president who reached out to him as part of efforts to tame a decadeslong Muslim rebellion.