A US proposal to send more NATO ships to the Black Sea to ensure safe passage for Ukrainian vessels and deter Russia is viewed "negatively" in Moscow, the Kremlin said Wednesday. Washington has been working on a package to boost surveillance and send more NATO ships to the Black Sea after a...

Algerians have reacted positively to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s resignation late Tuesday following weeks of popular protests against his continued rule.   Ali Benflis, head of the Talae al-Hurriyat opposition party, expressed his “thorough satisfaction with the end of...

New French minister and government spokeswoman Sibeth Ndiaye has spent almost five years at Emmanuel Macron’s side as his media adviser, earning a reputation for blunt speech and a willingness to put the press in its place. Ndiaye was named to the post on Sunday night in a mini-cabinet...

A UN war crimes tribunal Wednesday slapped down former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic's challenge to an increase in his sentence for war crimes to a life term, saying its ruling was final. Appeals judges in The Hague last month upheld Karadzic's 2016 conviction for genocide in the...