A Dominican Republic court has ordered three months detention for a former Ukrainian government official during an investigation into accusations he kidnapped a fellow countryman at a popular Dominican tourist spot.
Nigerian news reports say security forces have detained a journalist over alleged links to Boko Haram and purported knowledge of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls.
France's foreign minister says the country's authorities have not heard from several French citizens in Gabon in the last few days amid post-presidential election tension.
The 6,148 whiskey shots perched atop glasses of energy drink waited for the push that might send them tumbling into the record books -- just another night in Dubai, and another chance to make a certain kind of history.
A group of former Israeli politicians, security officials, artists and social activists is urging the government to hold a national referendum on the future of the Palestinian territories.
The chief of Britain's new Brexit department says the government will not be rushed as it develops detailed plans for leaving the European Union, as Prime Minister Theresa May backed away from proposals to use a point-based system to manage immigration.
A large wooden model of 17th-century London was set ablaze to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London that ripped through the city in 1666.
Poland's foreign and interior ministers will visit Britain for talks about the security of hundreds of thousands of Poles there, following two attacks that left one Pole dead and three others injured.
A Bahraini watchdog says the country's leading activist, Nabeel Rajab, has been charged with publishing "false news and statements and malicious rumors that undermine the prestige of the kingdom," a day after his letter appeared in The New York Times.
Hundreds of truckers in big rigs, farmers in tractors and dockers and merchants on foot blocked a major highway in northern France on Monday to demand the closure of the Calais migrant camp known as the "jungle."
European law enforcement agency Europol says 52 people have been arrested in a crackdown on a drug and weapons smuggling network in Spain and Lithuania.
An Egyptian rights group says Egypt has built over a dozen new prisons following the military's 2013 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, increasing the total number of prisons in the country in by a third.
Hungary's prime minister vowed Monday to protect his country's borders against a possible surge in migrant arrivals this fall and offered to help neighboring Serbia to do the same.
Thai police say they have arrested two men from Thailand and Taiwan suspected of smuggling more than 3 tons of marijuana from Laos for shipment to Australia.