More than 400 rescued people were brought ashore by Italian coastguards on Wednesday morning. The number of people attempting to flee war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, particularly...

Pope Francis will visit Cuba before arriving in the United States in the last week of September, the Vatican said Wednesday. The Vatican spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi, confirmed the Cuba leg...

On the eve of an emergency summit in Brussels, Amnesty International is publishing a Blueprint for Action calling on European governments to take immediate and effective steps to end an ongoing...

Denmark has outlawed bestiality, putting the small Scandinavian country in line with several European neighbors, including Germany, Sweden and Norway. In a 91-75 vote, Danish lawmakers approved...

An Islamic extremist with an arsenal of heavy weapons planned an imminent attack on one or more French churches, France's top security official said Wednesday, announcing the arrest of the man who is...

Italian Premier Matteo Renzi says the European Union must rapidly devise a long-range, comprehensive policy to stop the flood of migrants setting out from Libya, including establishing refugee camps...

A former Auschwitz guard is taking the stand for a second day Wednesday to answer judges' questions about his role at the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. SS Sgt. Oskar Groening told the court...

EUROPE-MIGRANTS CATANIA, Sicily — Italian prosecutors have begun building their case against the people suspected of being responsible for the drowning of as many as 950 migrants in the...

Rescue seemed so close at hand. A ship with experience plucking migrants from unseaworthy smuggler's boats had arrived soon after the distress call went out. But then the fishing trawler's...

Spurred into action by a massive loss of lives in the Mediterranean, the European Union's executive arm has proposed a 10-point action plan for dealing with the unprecedented migrant influx. Here's a...