Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's party was locked in battle Sunday for control of Rome and other cities in municipal elections seen as a test for the ruling party and the country's divided right.
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Six Czech tourists were injured when their bus was hit by gunfire while traveling through southeastern France, a prosecutor said Sunday.
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Former British prime minister John Major launched a blistering attack on Sunday on fellow Conservatives campaigning for a Brexit, as rivals traded economic claims in an increasingly tight race for the June 23 vote.
Full StorySouth Sudan resumed talks with Sudan on Sunday on a raft of thorny issues, including borders and oil revenues, still outstanding from its 2011 secession.
The south's foreign affairs, defense, interior and oil ministers traveled to Khartoum for the talks, the first since a unity government was formed in Juba last month in a bid to end its devastating civil war.
Full StoryTaliban gunmen stormed a court complex in a city south of Kabul Sunday, killing at least seven people in the insurgents' third so-called "revenge" attack for last month's execution of Taliban-linked prisoners.
The attack in Pul-i-Alam, capital of volatile Logar province, also left 23 prosecutors wounded as they were meeting to decide the fate of six newly arrested Taliban militants.
Full StoryA German right-wing populist politician has attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel as a "dictator" who is trying to "replace the German people" with migrants, a Sunday newspaper reported.
Alexander Gauland, of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, told a rally outside Berlin that Merkel's liberal asylum policy was radically transforming the face of the country, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung said.
Full StorySpain's anti-austerity party Podemos and its allies could leapfrog the Socialists in this month's repeat general election to become the country's main opposition, three polls showed Sunday.
The surveys published in El Pais, El Mundo and El Espanol dailies showed acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's conservative Popular Party coming first, with 27.7-31 percent of the vote, way short of a parliamentary majority.
Full StoryIran hanged a 21-year-old man on Sunday after convicting him of the rape of dozens of women in the historic southern city of Shiraz, the judiciary said.
The convict, identified only as Amin D., earned notoriety as the "Vaseline Man" in Iranian media for his greasing of his body in the pre-dawn attacks on women in their homes that sowed terror in the southern city of some 1.5 million people.
Full StoryA Christian was hacked to death after Sunday prayers near a church in northwest Bangladesh in an attack -- the latest in a series on religious minorities -- claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
Police said unidentified attackers murdered the 65-year-old in the village of Bonpara, home to one of the oldest Christian communities in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
Full StoryThe rain-swollen River Seine in Paris receded after reaching its highest level in three decades as attention turned Sunday to other areas of France where alert warnings have been issued.
From a peak of 6.10 meters (20 feet) in the early hours of Saturday, the river began to subside, falling to 5.77 meters at 8am (0600 GMT), the environment ministry's Vigicrues flood watch website said.
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