Brazil's leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva denied in court Tuesday that he tried to obstruct a giant corruption probe shaking Brazilian politics. Lula told a court in the capital Brasilia that he hadn't participated in an alleged scheme to pay Nestor Cervero, the ex-director...

The European Union's top diplomat has unveiled a plan to help war-torn Syria seal a peaceful end to fighting, improve stability and rebuild once a real political transition is happening. Foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Tuesday that "there is much the European Union is ready to...

Turkey may slap the Netherlands with economic sanctions, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Tuesday, a day after Ankara launched a series of high-level diplomatic sanctions against the Dutch in a deepening row. Kurtulmus made the...

President Vladimir Putin has approved a decree allowing some troops from Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia to be incorporated into the Russian army, the RIA news agency reported on Tuesday. Russia recognised South Ossetia as an independent state in 2008 after fighting a short war...