Far-right and racist crime rose sharply last year in eastern Germany's ex-communist state of Saxony, new data showed on Thursday. Reported offences -- including mainly assaults but also threats and arson attacks -- increased by 38 percent to 317, with a total of 481 victims, said victim's...

North Korea on Thursday attacked ongoing joint military exercises between Seoul and Washington as an "all out challenge" to moves towards peace on the Korean peninsula. The US and South Korea agreed on Sunday to replace two major war games that take place every spring -- the Key Resolve and...

Israel’s election board has approved far-right Jewish candidates accused by rivals of racism for next month’s election while disqualifying an Arab party that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said supported terrorism. The Central Elections Committee’s decisions, taken late on...

Witnesses said that activists chose a women’s day theme for Thursday’s protests and many of the hundreds who turned out in Omdurman, across the Nile river from the center of the capital, and in eastern Khartoum, were female. They chanted “Peace, freedom and justice”, and...