Four people, including three policemen, were killed in a shooting attack in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a microbus in North Sinai’s city of Arish, an Egyptian security source told Anadolu Agency. “Three policemen and the driver...

The Bulgarian government on Wednesday nominated European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva to stand for the United Nations Secretary-General post after another candidate, Irina Bokova, dropped in the ranking in the fifth U.N. Security Council secret ballot. The nomination of Georgieva, a...

Police have arrested five people suspected of forming an Islamic State cell and promoting Islamist militancy in Spain, Belgium and Germany, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. Three of them were detained in Spain, two of them in Barcelona and one in the North African enclave of...

Philippine officials said a notorious Chinese drug lord was killed Wednesday in a riot at the national prison that injured four other inmates -- among them a convict sought as a witness in a Senate inquiry into a bloody crackdown on illegal drugs. Local media reported that Tony Co, among the...