French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that Europe was "finally" united in addressing the threat from China, as Chinese President Xi Jinping launched a five-day tour of the continent. Xi's visit comes a week after the European Union released a 10-point plan outlining a shift to more...

Facebook on Thursday admitted that millions of passwords were stored in plain text on its internal servers, a security slip that left them readable by the social networking giant's employees. "To be clear, these passwords were never visible to anyone outside of Facebook and we have found no...

Sudan summoned Egypt's ambassador to Khartoum on Thursday to protest Cairo's "illegal" call for oil and gas exploration bids in the Red Sea area of Halayeb, claimed by both countries. Egypt's control of the Halayeb triangle, which lies in a mineral-rich border region, has for decades been a...

Israeli authorities shut down a French cultural center in Jerusalem Thursday, alleging it was to host an event involving an association supported by the Palestinian Authority. In a rare move, police entered the center in Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem and ordered it closed until further...