France has launched a judicial inquiry into the Syrian activities of French-Swiss cement and construction giant LafargeHolcim, Paris prosecutors said on Tuesday. Three judges -- one dealing with anti-terrorism matters and two financial judges -- would handle the probe, which was opened on...

Iraqi forces on Tuesday reported progress in the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge ISIS from Mosul, announcing the capture of a district just north the city's historic center. With the loss of the Zanjili neighborhood, the enclave still held by ISIS in the northern Iraqi city has shrunk to...

A South Korean professor was injured Tuesday after opening a concealed explosive device brought to his university office in Seoul, police said. The crudely made device was made with explosive powder, four batteries and dozens of bolts that were packed inside a vacuum bottle, and it exploded...

An explosion at the police headquarters of a U.K. military base has slightly injured one policeman and caused minor structural damage, a British spokesman said Tuesday. Kristian Gray said that authorities are treating the pre-dawn explosion at Dhekelia Garrison near Cyprus' southeastern...