The State Department on Monday announced it received credible threats of "potential terrorist activity" targeting U.S.-branded hotels in Adana, Turkey, warning Americans in the southern city to "exercise extreme caution."
Kosovo's foreign minister said Monday that other nations have exported violent extremism to his country, which has seen a greater percentage of its citizens fight for the Islamic State group than any other nation in Europe.
A Canadian-Iranian retired professor was released from prison on "humanitarian grounds" and flown out of Iran on Monday, Iran's state-run news agency said, ending her months of detention alongside other dual nationals swept up by hard-liners in the security services.
Kurdish rebels staged two attacks against security forces in southeastern Turkey on Monday, killing 10 security force members and wounding eight others, the country's state-run news agency reported.
Brazilian authorities arrested a former finance minister Monday for his alleged role in a massive kickback scheme, the latest high-level politician to be snared in a corruption probe roiling Latin America's largest nation.
Saudi Arabia's King Salman is reducing the salaries and benefits of senior government officials as lower oil prices continue to pinch the kingdom's economy.
Mexico's Roman Catholic Church is criticizing what it considers a campaign to smear three murdered priests by suggesting they were involved in questionable behavior.
Egyptian officials say Islamic State militants have killed five Egyptian civilians and dumped their bodies, wearing orange jumpsuits, in a restive corner of the Sinai Peninsula.
Greek labor unions say they are backing strikes and protests against a plan to place major state assets under the control of a new privatization fund to be headed by bailout creditors.
The Latest on the signing of a historic peace deal in Colombia (all times local): 10:20 a.m U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is urging young Colombians to embrace the country's peace process for the sake of future generations.