Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday said France had tried to establish "dialogue" with Moscow on Ukraine but without Kyiv's participation -- a claim that was dismissed by Paris as ...

Membership of Britain's upstart anti-immigration Reform UK party has overtaken that of the centre right Conservative Party for the first time, the party said on Thursday.

Pakistan military courts have sentenced 60 more civilians for taking part in pro-Imran Khan unrest last year, the armed forces said Thursday, after international outcry over earlier announced ...

Kenya's police on Thursday denied involvement in the latest spate of abductions targeting government critics. Kenyan security forces have been accused by multiple human rights groups of carrying out ...

Finnish authorities said Thursday they are investigating an oil tanker that sailed from a Russian port for the "sabotage" of a power cable linking Finland and Estonia that was damaged the previous day ...

Peru has declared an "environmental emergency" after an oil spill that triggered a clean-up operation on a stretch of northern coastline popular with tourists.

A US official said Thursday that early indications suggest a Russian anti-aircraft system struck an Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people.

The Arab League regional bloc called on Iran on Thursday not to fuel "strife" in Syria, after the ouster of Tehran ally president Bashar al-Assad ended decades of rule by his clan.

The three main indexes were reversing earlier losses in late morning trading Thursday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 52 points, or 0.1%, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite were flat.