Italy is warning unspecified retaliation against the European Union if governments don't make good on pledges to take in more asylum seekers as the country copes with migrants massing at...

Thousands of people, many holding yellow umbrellas, marched in Hong Kong today to urge lawmakers to vote down Beijing-backed election reforms that sparked huge street protests last year, although the...

Kurdish officials and an activist group say Syrian Kurdish fighters are just outside of a key Islamic State-held town on the Turkish border. The advance on Tal Abyad could allow Kurds to cut off...

A Kenya military spokesman says 11 militants from the Somali extremist group al-Shabab have been killed after they attempted to attack an army camp in Lamu County. Col. David Obonyo said Sunday...

Tigers, lions, a hippopotamus and other animals have escaped from the zoo in Georgia's capital after heavy flooding destroyed their enclosures, prompting authorities to warn residents in Tbilisi to...

ESCAPED PRISONERS PLATTSBURGH, New York — A worker at an upstate New York maximum-security prison has been arraigned on charges she helped two convicted killers escape last...

Officials in Milan and Rome were forced to take emergency measures Saturday to accommodate the influx of migrants rescued at sea who have been sleeping in train stations after Italy's...

City officials have closed a migrant reception area overlooking the Milan train station's main entrance hall where hundreds have been sleeping this week amid increasing health and sanitation...

A bus driver has been arrested after his vehicle crashed into three 15-year-old Austrian swimmers at the European Games, leaving one severely injured. Veli Ahmadov is accused of a breach of road...

At least one gunman opened fire on officers outside police headquarters in Dallas early Saturday, spraying squad cars with bullets before fleeing in a van which officers pursued and surrounded,...