Montenegro said it had foiled a plot by a group of Serbs who were planning to seize the prime minister and parliament and proclaim victory for the opposition after Sunday's tinderbox election. News of the arrest of 20 Serbs ratcheted up tensions in the small ex-Yugoslav state which were...

A US aid worker kidnapped in Niger is likely being held by jihadists from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), the country's interior minister said Sunday. Jeffery Woodke -- the first American to be kidnapped in the west African country - was seized at gunpoint from his...

Britain and the United States said on Sunday they were considering additional sanctions against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his supporters, and called on Russia to help end the Syrian conflict. "It is vital that we keep that pressure up and there is a lot of measures we're...

(BBC)- A bridge connecting two small islands near the Indonesian resort island of Bali has collapsed, killing at least nine people, officials say. People were passing over the suspension bridge for a religious ceremony when the accident occurred, a police officer told Reuters news agency....