President Barack Obama has a complicated history with the politics of immigration.   The son of a Kenyan immigrant, Obama has been both embraced and scorned by immigrant advocates who have...

It's a busy week in Mideast diplomacy, book-ended by the launch of Israel-Hamas talks about a border deal for blockaded Gaza and the Palestinian president's U.N. speech about a new...

Ending months of vote-related tension, Afghanistan's election commission named a new president Sunday only hours after the leading candidates signed a power-sharing deal that names one of them as...

Thousands of people are marching through central Moscow to demonstrate against the fighting in Ukraine and Russia's alleged complicity in the conflict.   An Associated Press reporter...

Pope Francis denounced how extremists around the world are "perverting" religion to justify violence as he arrived Sunday in Albania, a Balkan nation where Christians and Muslims endured...

The U.N. refugee agency says some 70,000 Syrians have crossed into Turkey in the past 24 hours to escape fighting between Kurdish forces and the Islamic State group.   A spokeswoman for the...

Pope Francis arrived Sunday in Albania on his first European trip, designed to highlight the Balkan nation's path from a brutal communist state where religion was banned to a model of...

Police were called to separate rival supporters of the union and independence after hundreds of people crowded into Glasgow's George square on Friday.   Union supporters and rivals...

Catalonia's parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favour of giving its regional president the power to call an independence "consultation".   Spain's government opposes...

Negotiators in Ukrainian peace talks agreed early Saturday to create a buffer zone to separate government troops and pro-Russian militants and withdraw heavy weapons and foreign fighters in order to...