German Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the migration deal clinched at an E.U. summit on Friday, describing it as a decisive step in the direction of a common European asylum policy. "What we achieved here together is perhaps more than I had expected," Merkel told reporters at the end...

 The French cement giant Lafarge was charged on Thursday with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing terrorists, for allegedly paying millions to jihadists, including the Islamic State group, to keep a factory open in war-torn Syria. The company, whose Syrian...

At least five people are dead and several others “gravely injured” after a gunman opened fire Thursday in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. “There are five fatalities that we know of,” Anne Arundel County Acting Police Chief Bill Krampf said at a press...

Tunisia's Wahbi Khazri set up the first goal and scored the second to give the North African side their first World Cup win in 40 years with a 2-1 victory over debutants Panama in their final Group G match on Thursday. Fakhreddine Ben Youssef turned in Khazri's perfect cross in the 51st...