Eight people including a girl were lightly wounded late on Sunday in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southeast French city of Avignon, the prosecutor's office said, ruling out terrorism.
Confidence among Japan's biggest manufacturers has risen for the third straight quarter to the best level in more than three years, a key central bank survey showed on Monday as exports continue to grow.
Qatar appeared defiant as Saudi Arabia and its allies on Monday extended a deadline for Doha to accept a series of demands to lift a de facto blockade.
In line with the importance Turkey attaches to the peaceful resolution of conflicts and mediation, the fourth Istanbul Conference on Mediation will convene on 30 June 2017 themed “Surge in Diplomacy, Action in Mediation”.
Brazil's Supreme Court yesterday sent a corruption charge against President Michel Temer to Congress for it to decide whether the president should be put on trial.
The Serbian parliament yesterday voted in Ana Brnabic, an openly gay woman, as the country's Prime Minister in a landmark move for the patriarchal conservative country and the entire Balkans region.
British Prime Minister Theresa May narrowly won a confidence vote in parliament yesterday, highlighting the weakness of her Conservative Party which lost its majority in a shock general election result earlier this month.
US President Donald Trump's ban on refugees and travellers from six mainly Muslim countries went into effect late yesterday, after Supreme Court decision allowed it to go forward following a five-month battle with rights groups.
The Romanian parliament yesterday approved the Social Democrat government of new Prime Minister Mihai Tudose, despite controversy over its economic plans.
Israel hit a Syrian regime position on Wednesday night after stray mortar fire from the war-torn country struck the occupied Golan Heights, in the third such exchange within a week.
The Czech parliament on Wednesday passed a constitutional amendment that challenges EU gun control rules by allowing legal firearms holders to use them when national security is threatened, including during terrorist attacks.
A tentative deal to cut nearly $600 million from the UN peacekeeping budget was reached on Wednesday, capping weeks of tough negotiations over US demands for a sharp reduction in costs, UN diplomats said.
South Korea's President Moon Jae-In arrived in Washington on Wednesday on his first overseas trip since taking office, for planned talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump.
Once fierce rivals, the leaders of Spain’s two main left-wing parties agreed on Tuesday to attempt to form an alternative to conservative Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s minority government.
Rival Cypriot leaders meet on Wednesday to resume efforts to solve one of the world's longest-running political crises in what the island's UN envoy billed as the "best chance" for peace.
Three former executives at Fukushima’s operator stand trial this week on the only criminal charges laid in the 2011 disaster, as thousands remain unable to return to homes near the shuttered nuclear plant.
Korea has become a member of the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules System, strengthening the growth potential of the e-commerce sector, and protection of sensitive consumer data used in online transactions.
The US Supreme Court on Monday partially reinstated Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban targeting citizens from six predominantly Muslim countries, prompting the president to claim a victory for national security.
Colombia’s leftist FARC rebel force formally completed its disarmament process on Monday to end half a century of war against the state, the United Nations said.
Police in Mexico found the burned remains of a journalist who was kidnapped in May, the sixth reporter killed this year in the country, a state prosecutor said on Monday.
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