An Iranian committee is examining potential candidates to be the next Supreme Leader, former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Sunday, breaking a taboo of talking publicly about succession in the Islamic Republic. Even after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 75, had surgery...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday that the danger of the far-right remained despite the National Front (FN) failing to win a single contest in regional elections. "The danger of the far-right has not been removed, far from it," said Valls after early estimates were released.

 President Barack Obama on Saturday praised the "strong" and historic" accord hammered out in Paris, which he said could mark "a turning point for the world" on climate change. "The Paris agreement establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the climate crisis," the US...

Several thousand protesters, most of them members of Shiite paramilitary forces, gathered in central Baghdad Saturday to demand the withdrawal of Turkish forces from Iraq. Iraq says Turkey deployed troops and tanks to a base in the country's north last week without its permission, sparking a...