The EU said Wednesday it was ready if needed to retaliate within days against new U.S. sanctions on Russia, but believes Washington wants to spare European energy firms from any fallout. U.S. President Donald Trump reluctantly signed off on the new sanctions against Russia Wednesday, bowing...

Italian authorities on Wednesday impounded a German NGO's migrant rescue boat on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration, police said. The Iuventa, operated by the Jugend Rettet organisation, was impounded on the Italian island of Lampedusa on the orders of a prosecutor based in...

Germany Wednesday accused Hanoi of kidnapping an asylum seeker on German soil, as Berlin furiously summoned Vietnam's ambassador and expelled one of the south-east Asian nation's spies. "The kidnapping of Vietnamese national Trinh Xuan Thanh on German soil is an unprecedented and scandalous...

Daesh (ISIS) Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack a day earlier against a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan that left dozens dead. "Around 50 Shiites killed and 80 wounded in an attack by [Daesh] fighters yesterday on a mosque in western Afghanistan's Herat," the group's...