Pressure grew on Germany's domestic spy chief Saturday after he expressed skepticism that migrants had been hounded in Chemnitz after the fatal stabbing of a German man – remarks that are reviving strains in Chancellor Angela Merkel's government. Germany has been deeply shaken by the...

Residents say Boko Haram extremists have overrun a key crossroads and military outpost in northern Nigeria. Gudumbali is a town to which just months ago the government encouraged displaced people to return. The Borno state secretary of the self-defense hunters association, Bunu Bukar,...

  "I don't care if they call us racist but things simply cannot carry on this way," said Paula Neubach at a far-right rally in the flashpoint German city of Chemnitz, rocked by anti-foreigner violence since late August. Extremist groups and thousands of locals have taken to the streets...

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced 75 people to death, including top leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, for their involvement in a 2013 protest that was broken up by security forces in an operation that killed at least 600 people. In a case involving 739 defendants facing charges...