Italy's outgoing interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has banned another migrant-rescue ship from docking in the country, using the issue of immigration to pile pressure on his main two political rivals as they seek to form a new government. Salvini, who leads the League party, issued a...

At least 267 Civilians were documented killed in August, in addition to 25 detainees died of torture, a Syrian monitoring group said Sunday. The 28-page report  by the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented the deaths of 267 civilians in August, including 72...

UN chief Antonio Guterres arrived Saturday in the troubled east of DR Congo, expressing "solidarity" with a region ravaged by violence and an Ebola epidemic. The secretary general started his three-day tour of Africa's largest country in Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, which is...

Italy’s 5-Star Movement will only enter a coalition with the opposition Democratic Party (PD) if it agrees to a string of policy demands, the 5-Star leader said on Friday, setting an uncompromising tone for the negotiations. Luigi Di Maio’s hardline message dented growing optimism...