Thousands gathered across Spain on Tuesday to protest Spain's new public security law that went into effect on Wednesday. The Citizen Security Law , labeled as a "gag law" by protesters, sets fines for burning the national...

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday appointed Lee Wolowsky the new envoy to lead the Obama administration's efforts to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Wolowsky is...

US President Barack Obama and Brazil President Dilma Rousseff met Tuesday and announced an agreement to address climate change. Both countries pledged to reduce carbon emissions by increasing the use of wind and solar power sources to 20 percent...

France's chief prosecutor said on Tuesday that the man who allegedly beheaded his boss, pinned the severed head on a fence post and tried to blow up an industrial plant will be charged with terrorism and murder. The announcement...

French officials on Tuesday ordered the trial of two senior executives for Uber Technologies on allegations of maintaining an illegal taxi service. Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty and Thibaud Simphal , general managers for Western Europe and France respectively,...

Tunisian Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli announced Monday that authorities had arrested a group of individuals suspected to have supported a Friday attack that killed 39 at a beach resort. The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack...

The UNESCO World Heritage Committee said Monday that extremist groups' destruction of antiquities and heritage sites in conflict zones could amount to war crimes. The committee noted particularly the Islamic State's (IS) destruction of the...

Egypt's chief prosecutor, Hisham Barakat , was killed Monday in Cairo by a car bomb attack on his convoy. Barakat's vehicle was attacked by a car outfitted with explosives that was remotely detonated when...

Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina announced Friday that the country had certified the citizenship of thousands whose status had been in question for almost a decade. Their citizenship was in question based on...

European Union leaders announced Friday that a final quota compromise had been reached regarding the large number of illegal immigrants arriving in Italy and Greece after crossing the Mediterranean sea. It is estimated that over...