FILE - In this Wednesday, July 3, 2013, file photo, Russian Federal Security Service Chief Alexander Bortnikov attends a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow.

French soldiers recovered a black box from the Air Algerie wreckage site in a desolate region of restive northern Mali on Friday, officials said.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria killed dozens of Syrian government soldiers in an attack on an army base, a Syrian activist group said on Friday.

Rather than scale back its military intervention in Ukraine after the Malaysia Airlines jet was shot down, Moscow is instead devoting even more firepower to the pro-Russian separatists' cause, in the face of international condemnation and toughened U.S.

US president Barack Obama has urged leaders of three Central American countries to help stem the flow of illegal child migrants surging across the American, warning most will not be allowed to stay.

A 25-year-old Canadian man has been charged after he allegedly made "direct threats" to the safety of a flight to Panama City this morning, resulting in the plane returning to Toronto for an emergency landing.

A Sudanese mother who was handed a death sentence for renouncing Islam has had an audience with the Pope in the Vatican. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim was convicted of apostasy by a Sudanese court.

The US says India's decision not to ratify a trade agreement to improve customs procedures has left the World Trade Organisation (WTO) "on the brink of crisis".

Kiev: Ukraine's prime minister has launched what promises to be a bitter election campaign that could divide pro-Western parties and complicate their efforts to fight pro-Russian rebels in the country's east.

Refugee lawyers say the federal government's plans for Indian officials to interview 157 asylum seekers when they arrive on the Australian mainland is unprecedented and potentially illegal under refugee law.

Just weeks after seizing swaths of northern and central Iraq, the jihadi extremists of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant have driven out the remaining Christians of Mosul.

A U.S. Congressman mistook two senior Indian-American administration officials for Indian diplomats during a hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, leading to a wave of criticism across social media and the blogosphere for what appeared to be a case of ...

Mayor de Blasio's prayers may be answered. Pope Francis reportedly confirmed his first U.S. visit since his March 2013 elevation, with a likely stop in Philadelphia - and rampant rumors of a trip to the Archdiocese of New York.

Police in Norway are on high alert after receiving intelligence that nationals returning from Syria may be plotting a terrorist attack within days against the Scandinavian country.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday Warsaw will probably appeal against a European Court of Human Rights ruling that Poland hosted a secret CIA jail.

The General Elections Commission (KPU) and the Elections Supervisory Agency (Bawaslu) say they are fully prepared to face any legal action taken by the losing presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto and his running mate Hatta Rajasa, including the ...

An Iranian judicial official confirmed Friday that The Washington Post's correspondent in Iran is in government custody, according to a report from a state news agency, but officials shed no light on the nature of an investigation that also led to the detention of ...