As tension spikes on the Korean peninsula, a French amphibious assault carrier sailed into Japan's naval base of Sasebo Saturday ahead of drills that risk upsetting China, which faces U.S. pressure to rein in North Korea's arms programs. The Mistral will lead exercises next month near Guam,...

 Defeated first-round French presidential candidate Nicolas Dupont-Aignan called on his voters on Friday to support the far-right Marine Le Pen in the May 7 runoff. Dupont-Aignan, who had scored 4.7 percent of votes in the first round, said he had signed an agreement on the future...

 German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this weekend with a message that they should do more to help refugees. Germany has taken in hundreds of thousands of Muslim refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan in recent years, straining the...

( The Guardian )- The leader of the parliamentary assembly in Europe’s oldest human rights body has been stripped of his powers after being accused of tarnishing his office by meeting the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. In a move unprecedented in the 68-year history of the parliamentary...