The European Union’s foreign policy chief has berated Lebanese politicians for delays in forming a new Cabinet, warning the union could impose sanctions on those behind the political stalemate in the crisis-hit country

Armenians head to polls Sunday for an early parliamentary election stemming from a political crisis that has engulfed the country in the aftermath of the last year’s fighting with Azerbaijan over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh

A 22-year-old man lost his hand and several others were also injured amid violence as police tried to break up an unauthorized rave party in western France

Warsaw is set to hold the largest gay pride parade in the region after a pandemic-induced break — and amid a backlash in Poland and Hungary against LGBT rights

Iran’s hard-line judiciary chief has won the country’s presidential election in a landslide victory

Both fuming and bragging, the man told the police officers that he used his car as a weapon during the street battle in a northern suburb of Paris, ramming the vehicle into a fighter from a rival group. “I destroyed him,” the man said. “For certain, he’s at the hospital. He’s got a cut on his skull, he’s got a cut on his mouth.” For the veteran police major called out to deal with the aftermath of another bloody brawl, the eye-opener this time was the sheer brutality, the clear intent on both sides to gravely wound and perhaps permanently maim. On a national level, such disorder is translating into polarized and politicized debate about violence ahead of France's presidential elections next year and local elections this month. President Emmanuel Macron’s opponents are using the perennial hot-button issues of crime and policing to attract votes. Violent rivalries have long been part of the policing geography in the rotting high-rises of tough Paris-region neighborhoods where...

A Hong Kong court has ordered the top editor of pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily and the head of its parent company held without bail in the first hearing since their arrest under the city’s national security law

Moderate candidate in Iran's presidential election concedes loss to hard-line judiciary chief in Instagram post

The coronavirus pandemic and changing consumer habits threaten to put an end to a decades-old practice of allowing elderly people in Mexico to earn extra income as grocery store baggers

The leaders of Germany and France have called for vigilance to prevent the spread of a coronavirus variant that this week prompted Britain to delay the planned relaxation of pandemic restrictions in England

Iranians have voted in a presidential election dominated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s hard-line protege after the disqualification of his strongest competition

A senior U.S. general has warned that the “wildfire of terrorism” is sweeping across a band of Africa and needs the attention of the world

Uganda is tightening lockdown measures in a bid to stem a surge in coronavirus cases

Iranian state TV showed voters streaming to cast their ballots, but very different scenes were playing out on Tehran’s streets, where traffic was light and polling places appeared relatively empty

The U.S. Virgin Islands' power company is reporting a complete blackout in St. John and St. Thomas, which is the U.S. territory’s most populated island

Canada’s public safety minister says border restrictions on nonessential travel with the United States will be extended until July 21

Palestinian Authority calls off million-dose vaccine exchange with Israel, says doses sent by Israel expire too soon

Lisbon's mayor says the city council in Portugal's capital has for years provided foreign embassies with personal information about protesters who organize demonstrations outside their premises

Gunmen abducted scores of children from a school in northwest Nigeria, the second kidnapping from a school in the country’s north within a week

A labor union leader has died in northern Italy after a truck apparently broke through a picket line outside a supermarket warehouse facility and struck him

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has lost a special election for a Parliament seat it held for decades