Italy's interior minister says a Syrian man has been detained in Genoa on suspicion he intended to join an extremist group in his homeland for the "purpose of international terrorism." Minister Angelino Alfano said in a statement Wednesday the suspect was detained under recent legislation that forbids joining a terrorist group.
A Belgian court has ruled that a man charged with participating in a terrorist group and planning to kill people will be kept behind bars for another month as investigation of the case continues.
Burundi's government has rejected the proposed deployment of up to 228 United Nations police to the East African nation to monitor human rights abuses and calm violence.
A video purportedly by Egypt's Islamic State affiliate has delivered a threat to Israel, saying the Jewish state will soon "pay a high price." The 35-minute video, posted on social media this week, also purports to show footage of alleged attacks by IS militants against Egyptian security forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
Six candidates are competing to lead Britain's right-wing U.K. Independence Party, which was a key force in the country's vote to leave the European Union.
Youssef Chahed, a minister in the previous government, says he has been nominated as the country's new prime minister, a decision that must be approved by parliament.
A group of British lawmakers says the country has fewer than 10 Border Force vessels to patrol 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) of coastline — a "worryingly low" number.
A presidential spokesman in Uganda says some ruling party officials want to remove the age limit on the presidency so long-time President Yoweri Museveni can run again.
A German court has convicted a former top spy in Yugoslavia's secret service and his one-time subordinate of involvement in the 1983 killing of a Communist-era dissident, and sentenced them to life in prison.
Armenia's top investigative body said Wednesday that 23 people are now in custody on suspicion of organizing riots in the capital, Yerevan, during a two-week armed standoff.
Pope Francis says while visiting the former Auschwitz and Birkenau Nazi death camps in Poland he reflected on today's cruelties in "this world sick with cruelty, violence and suffering." In recounting his visit to Poland last week, he told pilgrims at the Vatican Wednesday that while seeing the camps, he thought that even though today's cruelties aren't as concentrated as those practiced at the Nazi facilities, they're similar in sense of suffering.
