Pope Francis is calling for a renewed culture of nonviolence to inform global politics today, saying military responses to conflicts only breed more violence. Francis cited Mother Teresa, Mahatma...

Austria wants the European Union to freeze membership talks with Turkey over Ankara's massive crackdown following the failed coup. Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said Monday that the EU...

China says it has "serious concern" about President-elect Donald Trump's latest comments suggesting he is reconsidering America's relationship with Taiwan. Geng Shuang, a spokesman for the...

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Oxford University is encouraging students to use the gender-neutral pronoun 'ze' instead of 'she and 'he'. The students' union wrote in a leaflet that the move was intended to reduce the risk of...

Islamic State militants recaptured the ancient city of Palmyra from Syrian troops Sunday, according to both sides in the battle, scoring a major advance after a year of setbacks in Syria and...

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni was summoned to the presidential palace on Sunday and appeared poised to receive a mandate to try to form a new government. President Sergio Mattarella...

A bombing at Egypt's main Coptic Christian cathedral killed 25 people and wounded another 35 on Sunday, in one of the deadliest attacks carried out against the religious minority in recent...

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Twin attacks by a suicide bomber and a car bomber near an Istanbul soccer stadium Saturday night killed 38 people and wounded 166 others in the latest large-scale assault to traumatize a nation...