Spanish prosecutors are seeking a 10-year disqualification from holding public office for former Catalan regional President Artur Mas for staging a vote on Catalonia's secession from Spain despite a suspension order by the Constitutional Court.
Polish women donned black, waved black flags and took to Poland's streets on Monday, boycotting their jobs and classes as part of a nationwide strike waged to protest a legislative proposal for a total ban on abortion.
Morocco's Interior Ministry says authorities have detained 10 women linked to the Islamic State group who are suspected of plotting suicide attacks and trying to recruit other women to join the extremists.
Tensions rose overnight in the east Bosnian town of Srebrenica after preliminary results of Sunday's local elections showed a Serb candidate may win the mayor's race.
Since North Korea's latest nuclear test, Pyongyang and Seoul have been openly trading threats of decapitation strikes and annihilating capitals populated by millions of civilians.
Serbia's president says the Balkan country will seal its borders to stop migrants if the European Union countries further along the migration route fully block their boundaries against people fleeing war and poverty.
Witnesses said violent unrest continued Monday in Ethiopia, a day after 52 people were crushed to death during an anti-government protest at a massive religious festival.
Protesters shouted abuse at Chancellor Angela Merkel as German leaders gathered in the eastern city of Dresden to celebrate the anniversary of the country's reunification 26 years ago.
A South African Cabinet minister says a small minority of university students is trying to spread "anarchy" with violent protests calling for free education.
Greek police have fired pepper spray at retirees taking part in an anti-austerity protest against pension cuts in central Athens near the prime minister's office.
Indian and Pakistani troops are firing at each other along the border in divided Kashmir, as Indian troops are searching the site of a gunbattle where an Indian paramilitary soldier was killed.
A sniper fatally shot a Dutch photojournalist on Sunday in the Libyan city of Sirte, the Islamic State's last bastion in the chaos-wracked North African country.
