A German bomb disposal team yesterday successfully defused an unexploded World War II bomb that had forced the evacuation of

A former top Vatican official has accused Pope Francis of having known of allegations of sex abuse by a prominent US cardinal for years and called on him to resign, in an unprecedented broadside against the pope by a Church insider.

The UN's Refugee Agency yesterday called on EU member states to urgently agree to take in some of the 150 people stranded on an Italian coastguard ship, after a fresh immigration row erupted between the bloc and Italy's populist government.

A European Union aid plan for Iran sends "the wrong message at the wrong time" to the government in Tehran, the US State

Russia yesterday said Syrian rebels are preparing a chemical attack in Idlib province which will be blamed on Damascus and used as a

The exodus of migrants from Venezuela is building toward a "crisis moment" comparable to events involving refugees in the

The UN peace envoy for Syria will host Iran, Russia and Turkey for talks on drafting a new Syrian constitution on September 11-12, a

Spain's Socialist government passed a decree yesterday allowing the exhumation of the remains of Francisco Franco from his vast mausoleum.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu yesterday warned Russia that seeking a military solution in Syria's last rebel-held province of Idlib would be disastrous.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Sunday he will run for re-election in 2019 legislative polls. The Liberal Party leader

Armed assailants injured several policemen in attacks in three locations in the Russian republic of Chechnya yesterday, as the Islamic

A police officer shot dead a man armed with a knife as he tried to attack a police station in Catalonia yesterday, just days after the

Gunshots were fired early yesterday at the US embassy in Ankara but caused no casualties, Turkish and American officials said, amid

Former UN chief Kofi Annan, who died on Saturday, lashed out at the state of global leadership in an exclusive interview with AFP last year, urging more cooperation to deal with terrorism, migration and climate change.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday that Europe had not yet shown it was willing to "pay the price" of defying Washington in order to save the nuclear deal.

Nigel Farage, who spearheaded the drive to get Britain out of the EU, yesterday announced he was returning to the fray in a bid to

Rescuers search for survivors amid the debris of Italy's bridge collapse as the death toll climbed to 37 and the government blames the bridge's operator, demanding resignations and moving to strip its toll concession.

Manmade global warming and a natural surge in Earth's surface temperature will join forces to make the next five years exceptionally hot, according to a study published Tuesday.

More than 100 publications across the US will publish editorials rejecting Donald Trump's repeated attacks on the press. The move is part of a coordinated effort by the Boston Globe's editorial board to denounce the president's claim that the media "is the enemy of the American people".

A British man accused of a terror attack after driving into a barrier protecting the Houses of Parliament faces investigation for attempted murder, police said yesterday. Three people were injured when the 29-year-old, named by media as Salih Khater, drove over a pavement and into cyclists before crashing into the barrier on Tuesday morning.