Former football star George Weah has won Liberia’s presidential run-off election and will succeed incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf next month, the country’s first democratic transition in over 70 years. With 98.1 percent of the vote counted, Weah led with 61.5 percent to Vice...

Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday dissolved parliament ahead of an election which is expected to produce a period of instability in the euro zone’s third largest economy. Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni’s cabinet began meeting to fix the date of the vote, which...

A car rammed into the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) headquarters in the early hours of Monday, police in Berlin said. A police statement said a 58-year-old man was the main suspect in the incident, which occurred at 3:20 am local time (0220GMT) on Monday. The man, who was...

A federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon must allow an American Daesh fighter captured in Iraq access to a lawyer, following a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the Federal District Court in Washington ruled Saturday the ACLU must be...