Italian prosecutors in Sicily are seeking an 18-year prison sentence for a Tunisian man who allegedly captained a smugglers' boat that capsized and sank, sending some 800 migrants to their...

The U.N. human rights office says Ukrainian singer Jamala's Eurovision victory "makes no difference on the ground" for Crimean Tatars, who have faced growing persecution since Russia annexed the Black...

European Union President Donald Tusk is wading into the British debate on EU membership by deriding ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson for comparing the bloc's aims to those of Adolf Hitler. Tusk said...

LIBYA TALKS — The United States and other world powers say they are ready to supply Libya's new government with weapons to counter the Islamic State and other militant groups gaining...

The United States and other world powers say they are ready to supply Libya's internationally recognized governments with weapons to counter Islamic State and other terrorists and will push for...

Libya's U.N.-established presidency council has effectively given the go-ahead for 18 government ministers to start work, even though they have not received backing from the parliament based in the...

A cancer patient has received the first penis transplant in the United States, a Boston hospital said Monday. Massachusetts General Hospital has confirmed that Thomas Manning of Halifax,...

President Barack Obama cast Donald Trump's positions on immigration, trade and Muslims as part of an ignorance-and-isolation philosophy that the president says will lead the U.S. down the path of...

These are the main news items as cvered by the Associated Press on 15 May...

Exactly 50 years ago, China embarked on what was formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a decade of tumult launched by Mao Zedong to revive communist goals and enforce a radical...