New clashes erupted on Thursday between the Turkish army and a Syrian Kurdish militia regarded as a terror group by Ankara but seen by the United States as a key ally in the fight against extremists, reports said. Mortar shells fired from an area in Syria controlled by the Kurdish Peoples'...

US Ambassador Nikki Haley urged the UN Security Council on Thursday to ratchet up pressure on Russia to end sieges in Syria and help advance peace talks. "All eyes and all pressure now need to go to Russia, because they are the ones who could stop this if they wanted to," Haley told a...

Brazil was hit hardest on Thursday by FIFA for homophobic chanting by its supporters during World Cup qualifying, with Argentina and Mexico also fined. Nine football associations were punished in all by FIFA's Disciplinary Committee "for incidents involving, among others, unsporting and...

Student protesters clashed with police in Paris on Thursday in a demonstration against both presidential candidates in France's upcoming runoff election. Black-clad demonstrators who had broken off from the march of around 1,000 students hurled bottles at police who responded with tear gas....