Protesters marching against the French government's planned pension reform clashed with the police in Paris Saturday as police fired tear gas to disperse some groups of demonstrators. French trade unions have spearheaded nationwide strikes since early December in an outcry over President...

Protesters broke into Iraq's southern Nassiriya oilfield Saturday and forced employees to cut off electricity from its control station, taking the field offline until further notice, a security source and two oil sources said. The oilfield produces 90,000 barrels a day (bpd) of crude....

Cyprus on Saturday criticised Turkey's twin strategy of wading deeper into Libya's civil war while also claiming energy-rich maritime territories in the Mediterranean. Tensions are on the rise between Turkey on the one hand and EU members Greece and Cyprus on the other in a conflict over...

 The chief minister of India’s Uttar Pradesh state has rebuffed accusations from rights groups of police abuses during protests against a new citizenship law, crediting his tough stand with restoring calm to the streets. The northern state has seen the most violent turmoil over Prime...