Spain's city of Barcelona lived its most violent day on Friday since protests began against the ruling issued by the country's Supreme Court that sentenced nine Catalan independence leaders last Monday, with sentences between nine to 13 years in prison. The riots began in the Via Layetana...

Supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement made their presence felt Friday as the Brooklyn Nets played their first game in New York since they were caught in the middle of the NBA's rift with China. Tensions between Beijing and the American basketball league erupted this month after...

Prime Pinister Saad Hariri gave his political adversaries in Lebanon's national unity government a 72-hour ultimatum to agree on "convincing" reforms amid escalating nationwide protests over the country's worsening economic crisis. "I'm setting a very short deadline. Either our partners in...

In a dusty camp in northeastern Syria, Umm Osama says she hopes a deadly Turkish offensive against her Kurdish jailers will allow Islamic State group supporters like her to escape. "If the Turkish army attacks the camp, we will leave," said the 25-year-old Syrian woman inside the camp...