German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday defended the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project despite growing criticism by the U.S. and European countries. Merkel spoke at a news conference in the Slovakia's capital Bratislava, where she stressed Germany was diversifying its energy supplies...

Two French journalists on Thursday told a terror trial in Brussels that Mehdi Nemmouche, the main defendant in the May 2014 Jewish museum murders, had imprisoned and tortured them in Syria. The journalists who were freed in April 2014 came to the Belgian capital to testify about the...

The U.S. directly violates the UN Charter by threatening Venezuela with military intervention, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday. According to the Article 2, point 4 of the UN Charter, all UN members shall "refrain in their international relations from the...

The Ramallah-based Palestinian government has reduced monthly stipends paid to the families of Palestinians martyred or imprisoned by Israel, according to local sources.  Daoud Shihab, a spokesman for the Islamic Jihad movement, said: "Cutting stipends for the families of martyrs,...