Sudanese security forces Wednesday detained Mariam Sadiq al-Mahdi, the daughter of a senior opposition leader who was Sudan's last democratically elected prime minister, her family said. Two security vehicles arrived at Mariam's home Wednesday morning and took her away, her sister Rabah...

A human rights group and a major trade union went to France's top administrative court on Wednesday seeking a ban on riot police use of rubber bullets, which are blamed for injuring dozens of "yellow vest" protesters. The police have drawn fire over their repeated use of rubber bullets to...

Twelve people have been killed in floods after heavy rain lashed northern parts of Saudi Arabia this week, the civil defense agency said Wednesday. Ten died in the northwestern city of Tabuk and one each in the holy city of Medina and in northern border areas, the agency said in a...

The FBI is investigating Chinese economic espionage in nearly all of its 56 field offices around the country, underscoring the depth of the threat to US business, Director Christopher Wray told Congress Tuesday. "China writ large is the most significant counterintelligence threat we face,"...