(Reuters) - Italian prosecutors blamed the captain of a grossly overloaded fishing boat for a collision which capsized and sank his vessel off Libya, drowning hundreds of migrants including many women and children locked below deck. The few survivors of Sunday's tragedy told...

(Reuters) - A bomb exploded in front of the Spanish embassy in the Libyan capital late on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of attacks on foreign missions in the North African country. "We heard a loud explosion," said a Tripoli resident living next to the embassy....

Tripoli (AFP) - The United States and European powers pressed Libya's rival factions to set an "unconditional" ceasefire at talks restarting on Monday, as two attacks on foreign embassies were linked to Islamic State militants. Morocco is hosting a UN-backed dialogue between representatives...

Consequences of a Saudi-led coalition's airstrikes in Yemen pose a danger for the Islamic world, Iran's Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Saturday. "The airstrikes and igniting sectarian disputes are perilous, which will shed more blood in Yemen,"...