Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) slightly narrowed the gap with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in a poll published on Sunday, only hours before the center-right leader will face her challenger Martin Schulz in a television debate. Pollster Emnid said in a...
The Canadian embassy in Berlin was evacuated due to a bomb threat, local newspaper B.Z. reported on Wednesday, adding that the police had been on site and were able to give the all-clear. Neither the police nor the embassy were immediately available to comment. B.Z. said a radio...
French President Emmanuel Macron has asked his Turkish counterpart to free a French journalist who has been jailed in Turkey since July on suspicion of terrorism. The French president's office said Sunday that Macron spoke by telephone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and...
Pope Francis decried the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and prayed they receive "full rights." The pontiff said Sunday there was "sad news about the persecution of the religious minority of our Rohingya brothers." Thousands of Rohingya are trying to flee into Bangladesh after...
