The leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said he was optimistic that he could persuade his party's members to back the coalition deal he sealed with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives Wednesday morning. Martin Schulz said he would step down as leader of the party after the...

Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan was denied bail in France Tuesday, judicial sources said, four days after he was remanded in custody on charges of rape that have sown divisions in the Muslim community. Two Muslim women have accused Ramadan, a 55-year-old Oxford University...

Paris terror attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has refused to return to his trial in Belgium this week over a shootout with police in Brussels that led to his capture, the court said Tuesday. The fresh show of defiance comes after Abdeslam berated judges for being anti-Muslim,...

Greek Cypriots are gearing up for a presidential runoff on Sunday, barely seven months after the latest failure to reunify the eastern Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. President Nicos Anastasiades is looking to reprise his triumph over left-leaning Stavros Malas in 2013 when...