Moscow Monday slammed new U.S. sanctions on Venezuela, saying they were aimed at damaging the Latin American nation's economy and aggravating tensions. "The announced sectoral sanctions against Venezuela's financial and oil sector are quite obviously aimed at aggravating the out-of-balance...

A South African legal rights group Monday took the government to court in a campaign pressing for new legislation to recognize Muslim marriages as legally valid. The Women's Legal Centre (WLC) said it was lobbying against "unfair discrimination" as South African law does not grant religious...

Germany said on Monday it had reached a deal with Egypt to stem the flow of migrants from the Arab country, part of a broader push by Berlin to head off waves of migrants that have stoked domestic political tensions. The arrival in Germany of a million refugees over the last two years,...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Iran is building sites to produce precision-guided missiles in Syria and Lebanon, with the aim of using them against Israel. At the start of a meeting in Jerusalem with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Netanyahu accused Iran of...