German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, whose three-party coalition collapsed earlier this month, was Monday unanimously nominated as the Social Democrats' top candidate for early elections in February, party ...

A Ugandan court awarded damages to 20 people who were arrested, paraded in public and tortured on suspicion of being homosexuals, in a decision hailed by rights groups on Monday.

A senior UN official on Monday called on all parties involved in the conflict in Lebanon to "accept a ceasefire," as new Israeli strikes targeted Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.

Germany's foreign minister Monday said the deadly crash of a cargo plane near the Lithuanian capital's airport could have been an accident or a "hybrid incident" with outside involvement.

With an intensive Israeli military operation in Gaza's besieged north in its 50th day, remaining residents are left "scavenging among the rubble" for food, UNRWA spokeswoman Louise Wateridge told AFP.

Protesters in Bangladesh on Monday surrounded the offices of one of the few remaining independent newspapers, Prothom Alo, in the latest mass demonstrations demanding that critical media close.

Romania's pro-European Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said Monday his party "won't challenge" the narrow result that showed him eliminated from the country's presidential election, announcing his ...

An assisted migration of beech trees in need of protection from climate change is bearing its first fruits in France after 13 years, with saplings now gracing the former World War I battlefield of ...

The British government on Monday announced sanctions on 30 ships that it says are part of Russia's "shadow fleet", taking to 73 the number of vessels under restrictions by London.

France's justice minister said on Monday that he was "resolutely opposed" to a bill aimed at removing "apology for terrorism" from the criminal code, a move that has attracted condemnation across the ...

One woman was killed by a partner or relative every 10 minutes worldwide in 2023, the United Nations warned Monday, stressing that femicides remained at "alarmingly high levels".

The Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq are rising Monday as the stock market reacts to President-elect Donald trump appointing Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary.