A driver appeared to deliberately crash his car into a police van on the French capital's Champs Elysees avenue on Monday, the interior ministry said. The Paris prosecutor's anti-terrorism unit said it had opened an investigation. Read More:  Gunfire on aid convoy wounds one...

Seventy-nine people are dead or missing and presumed dead following a devastating blaze in a London tower block, police said Monday, as Britain held a minute's silence for the victims. "I'm afraid to say there are now 79 people that we believe are either dead or missing and I sadly have to...

 Israel on Monday began reducing its electricity supplies to the two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip already suffering from insufficient flow, electricity authorities on both sides said. Israel "began to reduce by eight megawatts flow to electricity lines" into the Palestinian...

 Several intercity rail tracks in Germany were hit by arson attacks overnight, police said Monday, in what could be protest action by left-wing extremists ahead of the G20 summit in July. Cable ducts of rail signalling equipment were set on fire in the states of Lower Saxony, Berlin,...