Fresh protests hit southern Iraq Sunday as medical sources put at 11 the number of demonstrators killed in two weeks of unrest sparked by ire over corruption and lack of public services. Security forces remained deployed around the capital Baghdad after struggling Friday to disperse...

Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat Sunday said his country will take in 19 migrants rescued after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean overnight. Seventeen migrants had initially been rescued by Malta's armed forces in the country's search and rescue area, but a pregnant woman and...

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says the Horn of Africa nation must adopt multiparty democracy supported by strong institutions that respect human rights and rule of law, his chief of staff said on Sunday. "Given our current politics, there is no option except pursuing a multiparty...

The bodies of more than 7,000 people have not been found although more than 20 years have passed since the Bosnian War, an official said. Some 2,000 skeletal remains found in mass graves could not be identified, Bosnia’s Missing Persons Institute press secretary Lejla Cengic told...