Macedonian police said Thursday that Islamist terror attacks had been foiled in the Balkan country as they announced the arrest of two citizens in a wider regional crackdown.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of the EU's biggest supporters of Donald Trump, said Thursday that the U.S. billionaire's election victory sounded the death knell for political correctness.

The U.S. restaurant worker accused of carrying out recent bomb attacks in New York and New Jersey appeared in court in person Thursday for the first time after being shot and critically wounded.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi, 28, appeared in a federal court in Manhattan and was read his rights by magistrate judge Sarah Netburn, after being moved from a hospital to the MCC correctional center in New York.

Donald Trump jetted into Washington Thursday for his first official meeting with President Barack Obama, as the two men begin the process of transferring the powers of the Oval Office.

Although Obama struck a statesman-like tone in a national address Wednesday, saying Americans are all "rooting" for the success of the president-elect -- a real estate developer taking on his first job in government -- the two frequently traded barbs on the campaign trail.

South Africa's scandal-hit President Jacob Zuma easily survived a no-confidence vote in parliament Thursday as ruling ANC lawmakers ignored calls from opposition parties to vote him out of office.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump on Thursday invited British Prime Minister Theresa May to visit him "as soon as possible" as they held their first conversation since his election, Downing Street said.

A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday refused to rule out prosecuting Democrat Hillary Clinton or investigating the foundation run by former president Bill Clinton.

Ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, a likely member of the incoming president's cabinet, told CNN that it was a "tough decision" on whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to look into possible illegal Clinton activities, as Trump threatened to do on the campaign trail.

The European Union is becoming a "superpower" indispensable for world peace, the bloc's foreign affairs chief said Thursday as Europe pondered the implications of Donald Trump's upset U.S. election victory.

Barack Obama and Donald Trump put acerbic rows and profound differences aside in a 90-minute transition meeting at the White House Thursday, hoping to quell fears about the health of the world's pre-eminent democracy.

The outgoing president and his successor met one-on-one and sat in high-backed chairs before the Oval Office fireplace, for what Obama characterized as an "excellent conversation."

Donald Trump's "America first" approach has Europe worried he may cut U.S. commitments to NATO just as it mounts its biggest military build-up since the end of the Cold War to counter a more assertive Russia.