Turkey Thursday recalled its envoy to Germany and threatened consequences, in a furious reaction over the Bundestag's decision to adopt a resolution recognizing the World War I massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide.
Full StoryThree Syrian men have been arrested in Germany over an alleged plan to launch a suicide attack there for the Islamic State jihadist group, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
According to the suspects' plan, two attackers were to detonate suicide vests while the others were to kill passersby with guns and explosives in the western city of Duesseldorf, prosecutors said in a statement.
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Cypriot leaders agreed at a meeting on Thursday to resume their stalled peace talks on June 8 after President Nicos Anastasiades had suspended the UN-brokered negotiations.
Full StoryOver a dozen migrants were hurt Thursday in a brawl in the main detention camp on the Greek island of Lesbos that also saw nearly 30 tents torched, an Agence France Presse correspondent said.
Hundreds of people -- mainly families with children -- were evacuated from the camp during the night as rival groups of Afghans and Pakistanis went at each other with clubs and stones, the journalist said.
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Tajikistan on Thursday jailed 13 leading members of a banned moderate Islamist opposition party for up to life, officials told AFP.
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Families of six Malaysia Airlines crew members who were killed when flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine nearly two years ago filed a lawsuit Thursday blaming the carrier for the tragedy.
Full StoryGunmen holed up in a central Mogadishu hotel for more than 12 hours killed at least 10 people in the latest attack in Somalia by the Al-Qaeda group, the Shabaab.
A huge car bomb that tore the front off the six-storey Ambassador Hotel in the heart of the capital signalled the start of the assault on Wednesday evening, with shooting continuing until Thursday morning when Somalia's security minister declared the attack over.
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French rail users faced a third day of strike disruption on Thursday but airport workers cancelled a planned walkout, easing fears for the Euro 2016 football championships.
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Turkey Thursday recalled its envoy to Germany and threatened further measures after the Bundestag described the massacre of Armenians by the former Turkish empire as genocide.
Full StoryNewly unsealed court documents in a case against White House hopeful Donald Trump's "university" reveal allegations that the now-defunct business preyed on the uneducated and misled consumers with aggressive marketing that amounted to fraud.
Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton pounced on the news to argue that Trump is a fraud who is "trying to scam America."
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