French president-elect Emmanuel Macron's party on Thursday unveiled more than 400 candidates who will stand in parliamentary elections in June, with half of them newcomers to politics and half of them women.
Incoming French president Emmanuel Macron will on Thursday reveal a list of hundreds of candidates for his new centrist political party, as he seeks to win a parliamentary majority in next month's general election.
A wall collapsed during a wedding party in western India late Wednesday, killing 24 people including four children, police said.
The White House slapped down calls for a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia Wednesday, after the US president abruptly fired his FBI director.
An earthquake rocked China's western Xinjiang region on Thursday, killing eight people and injuring another 11, state media reported.
Incoming French president Emmanuel Macron was starting to build his centrist government Tuesday, with his former Socialist boss jockeying for position in a radically changed political landscape.
An explosion at a fireworks warehouse killed 14 people, all but three of them children, in a poor Mexican village as it celebrated a religious festival.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday fired FBI director James Comey, ousting the man heading a wide-ranging investigation into whether his aides colluded with Russia to sway last year's US election.
Left-leaning former human rights lawyer Moon Jae-In began his five-year term as president of South Korea on Wednesday, following a landslide election win after a corruption scandal felled the country's last leader.
A new round of United Nations-backed peace talks for war-ravaged Syria is set to begin in Geneva next week, the office of the UN mediator said on Monday.
The International Criminal Court is considering whether to investigate migrant-related crimes in Libya, which has become a "marketplace" for human trafficking, the chief prosecutor said on Monday.
Did Donald Trump's contested travel ban deliberately single out Muslims? The US administration fiercely denied it during an appeals court hearing on Monday -- despite the president's campaign call for a blanket Muslim ban.
Tens of millions of South Koreans were casting their votes on Tuesday to elect a candidate to lead the country for the next five years.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday vowed to help to 82 schoolgirls who have been freed from more than three years of Boko Haram captivity after a prisoner swap.
With heavy rains persisting and waters still rising over much of waterlogged eastern Canada, the nation's military on Sunday tripled the number of troops urgently working to evacuate thousands of residents.
A gas leak has killed at least 18 people working in a coal mine in central China's Hunan province, state media reported on Monday.
Pro-European centrist Emmanuel Macron promised Sunday to heal France's divisions after crushing far-right leader Marine Le Pen in a pivotal presidential election that has given him a large but fragile mandate for change.
Emmanuel Macron, winner of France's presidential election, said on Sunday he would "fight the divisions" in the country after a campaign that laid bare the "anger, anxiety and doubts" of many voters.
ROME — Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni on Thursday hailed NGOs striving to rescue migrants off the coast of Libya, shrugging off a prosecutor’s claim that some groups are colluding with people traffickers.
Eight Brazilians convicted of plotting a jihadist attack on the Rio Olympics last year were sentenced on Thursday to between five and 15 years in prison.
