German authorities say they have arrested two suspected Islamic extremists, one of whom administered the strategically important dam in eastern Syria for ISIS. Federal prosecutors say the two Syrian nationals were arrested last week in Berlin and the nearby state of Saxony-Anhalt. The...

South Koreans headed to voting stations on Tuesday to elect a new leader, with a strong turnout suggesting voters are eager to move on from a corruption scandal that brought down the former president and shook the political and business elite. Unless there is a major upset, liberal Moon...

 Manuel Valls, a former French Socialist prime minister, said on Tuesday that he wished to support President-elect Emmanuel Macron's political movement in the June elections in the lower house of parliament. "I will be a candidate in the presidential majority and I wish to join up to...

Iranian state TV says that search crews have found seven more bodies at the site of a coal mine explosion last week, bringing the total death toll in the incident to 42. Tuesday's report quotes Reza Morovati, an official in the Golestan government, as saying that the bodies have been taken...