The U.S. State Department has confirmed that an American woman is being held in a Turkish prison and says consular officers are providing all possible assistance.
A team of prosecutors will investigate suspected irregularities in the restoration of Warsaw property seized by the communists to private owners, a spokesman for the national prosecutor's office said Thursday.
An Afghan official says clashes over an attempt by members of Afghanistan's Tajik community to rebury a former king slain almost 90 years ago have killed a security guard and wounded three people.
Serbia says it will not try to persuade the Bosnian Serbs to cancel a disputed referendum that has challenged the international community in Bosnia and fueled ethnic tensions more than 20 years after the 1992-95 war.
Sri Lankan ethnic Sinhalese nationalists have protested the United Nations chief's visit to the island nation, accusing him of interfering in its internal matters.
Holding their crying babies in their arms, dozens of Egyptian mothers have rallied on a major Cairo road, blocking traffic to protest severe shortages of subsidized baby formula.
A Belgian judge has ordered Mohamed Abrini, a suspect in attacks claimed by the Islamic State organization in Brussels and Paris, held in custody for two more months.
Two top European Union officials are in Turkey trying to restore dialogue amid the fallout from a failed military coup that has fueled diplomatic tensions and fears that an agreement to curb the flow of migrants across the Aegean Sea might collapse.
The world's top Christian leaders — Pope Francis, the archbishop of Canterbury and the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians — will come together later this month to pray for peace alongside Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist representatives.
Kosovo's Cabinet has withdrawn a much-contested draft law on the ratification of the border demarcation agreement with neighboring Montenegro, apparently bowing to opposition pressure.
Migrants are staging demonstrations at four sites around Greece, to protest delays in asylum procedures promised under a European Union agreement with Turkey.