Greece's coast guard says a wooden boat carrying a large number of refugees or other migrants has run aground on the small eastern Aegean island of Leros, while an infant died after the inflatable...

UNITED NATIONS-BRIBERY SCHEME-THE PRESIDENT UNITED NATIONS — This is how a former president of the U.N. General Assembly, arrested this week in an alleged bribery scheme, paid himself, the...

The European Union has earmarked more than 400 million euros ($451 million) in additional funding to tackle the refugee emergency. Most of the money — 300 million euros — will be used...

CONGRESS-REPUBLICANS WASHINGTON — Divided House Republicans meet Thursday to vote on a new speaker as the front-runner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, faces a fresh challenge...

Greece's left-wing prime minister easily won a confidence vote early Thursday, and pledged to usher the bailout-reliant country out of its financial crisis by 2019, mitigating creditor-mandated...

Libyan lawmakers have not yet reached agreement on a national unity government that is meant to stitch the oil-rich but chaotic north African country back together, a U.N. envoy said. Bernardino...

Tourism officials have closed a newly opened glass walkway in a central China scenic spot after cracks appeared in the structure at the height of the weeklong National Day holiday. The glass...

Syrian government troops launched a ground offensive Wednesday in the country's central region under cover of Russian airstrikes, a Damascus official said. And in the first salvo from the sea, Russian...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande are discussing the situation in the European Union, in the European Parliament this afternoon. Hollande and Merkel want to...

Prime Minister David Cameron says he has "no sentimental attachment" to the European Union and will refashion relations with the bloc in Britain's economic interest. In a bullish speech Wednesday...