Insurgent groups like Hezbollah and the Islamic State group have learned how to weaponize surveillance drones and use them against each other, adding a new twist to Syria's civil war, a U.S. military official and others say.
Poland says it will not send representatives to a meeting of an international human rights body that is examining controversial legislative change in the central European country, accusing the group of bias.
A U.S. Navy warship is bringing hundreds of Marines and sailors, along with power generators, water purifiers and bulldozers, to bolster relief efforts in Haiti, where Hurricane Matthew has left at least 750,000 people desperately in need of assistance.
Various murder and smuggling charges will be recommended against one Afghan and seven Bulgarian suspects for the deaths last year of 71 migrants who suffocated in the back of a refrigerated truck found in Austria, Hungarian police said Wednesday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet has agreed upon increased support for the coalition fighting Islamic State militants and will soon add AWACS reconnaissance aircraft to the effort.
Members of Austria's elite Cobra police commando unit have been assigned to protect the left-leaning candidate for Austria's presidency in response to death threats from right-wing extremists.
Video and photographs show a Catholic priest, his white robe streaked with blood, after he was hit in the face by a rubber bullet at the gates of a church during fighting between South African police and student protesters this week.
Poland's deputy defense minister has described the French as "people who learned to eat with a fork from us a few centuries ago" but denies that the two countries are embroiled in a diplomatic war over a failed defense deal.
Swiss federal prosecutors have opened criminal proceedings against Falcon Private Bank Ltd. on suspicion it failed to prevent alleged money laundering linked to the Malaysian state fund 1MDB.
A witness says as many as 10 people have been killed when security forces clashed with Shiite Muslims attending a religious ceremony in northern Nigeria.
Hundreds of men, boys, and several women, are commemorating the 7th century martyrdom of Prophet's Muhammad's grandson Hussein, in a Shiite tradition in Lebanon's south by lashing their foreheads and backs in a blood-soaked, open air parade.
The Indian army says a three-day standoff between its soldiers and suspected rebels in Indian-controlled Kashmir has ended with the killing of two militants.
France's interior minister says he will lodge a criminal complaint about anti-police graffiti found inside the buildings of a famed Parisian university.
