Colombia’s FARC former guerrilla group re-launches itself Friday as the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force, sealing its transformation into a leftist political party following its disarmament after a half-century civil conflict.
Romania's bid to overhaul its justice system could undermine the country's efforts to stamp out rampant corruption, the European Commission's representative in Bucharest said on Wednesday.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday discussed the violence in Myanmar where clashes and a security crackdown by the military in Rakhine state have sent 18,500 Rohingya fleeing across the border into Bangladesh.
British Prime Minister Theresa May insisted she would lead the Conservative Party into the next general election, in interviews broadcast on Thursday.
New proof of the devastation wrought by monster storm Harvey emerged on Wednesday as the bodies of six family members were plucked from receding waters in Texas and flooding triggered fears of a chemical explosion near Houston.
Researchers have found 381 new species in the Amazon rainforest, the World Wildlife Fund announced on Wednesday, warning that the discoveries were all in areas threatened by human activity.
At least five people were killed as heavy monsoon rain deluged India's financial capital Mumbai, causing transport chaos and forcing schools and many offices to close on Wednesday.
More than two million Muslims from around the world will start the hajj pilgrimage at Islam’s holiest sites on Wednesday, a religious duty and an epic multi-stage journey.
North Korea leader Kim Jong-un has promised more missile flights over Japan, insisting his nation's provocative launch was a mere "curtain-raiser", in the face of UN condemnation and US warnings of severe repercussions.
President Donald Trump toured the Harvey disaster zone in Texas on Tuesday as he sought to project an image of leadership in America's first big natural disaster since he took office, as the battered US Gulf Coast girded for another hit from the huge storm.
Work on the Russian-financed expansion of a Hungarian nuclear plant will begin in January, Hungary's foreign minister said on Monday after talks in Budapest between Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
A record outbreak of Hepatitis A has killed 14 people and put scores in hospital in San Diego, hitting mostly homeless and patients using intravenous drugs.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Tuesday that he and US President Donald Trump agreed to hike pressure on North Korea after it launched a ballistic missile over Japan, in Pyongyang's most serious provocation in years.
Mexican fishing authorities have boycotted the effort to save the critically endangered vaquita marina porpoise, environmentalists said on Monday, calling them "accomplices" in the near-extinction of the world's smallest porpoise.
Rescue teams in boats, trucks and helicopters scrambled on Monday to reach hundreds of Texans marooned on flooded streets in and around the city of Houston before monster storm Harvey returns.
The Colombian government and the country's last active rebel force, the ELN, said on Monday they hope to agree on a ceasefire before Pope Francis's visit to the nation next week.
Leaders from seven African and European countries meet in Paris on Monday for a mini-summit to discuss how to ease the EU's migrant crisis.
Britain and the EU kick off a third round of Brexit talks Monday, with London impatient to agree its future relationship with the bloc while Brussels insists the divorce settlement comes first.
North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles Saturday, the US military said, following weeks of heightened tensions between Washington and Pyongyang.
