Iran has complained to the U.N. Security Council about sanctions the United States imposed on Iran in July, saying they breached Tehran's nuclear deal with major powers, the speaker of parliament was quoted on Tuesday as saying. The nuclear deal (also referred to as JCPOA), signed in 2015 by...

Venezuelan opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma have been taken from their homes, where they were serving house arrest, family members said on Tuesday, adding that President Nicolas Maduro was responsible for their fates. Both leaders in recent days have called on...

The number of people with an immigrant background in Germany rose 8.5 percent to a record 18.6 million in 2016, largely due to an increase in refugees, the Federal Statistics Office said Tuesday. Just over a fifth of the population - 22.5 percent - were first or second generation immigrants...

The United Nations has begun removing containers holding more than 7,000 weapons from demobilization zones where the arms were handed over by former fighters for Colombia's largest rebel group who are beginning life as civilians under a peace agreement. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos...