Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday announced a ban on all face coverings, a week after Islamist militants carried out coordinated suicide bombings at churches and hotels that killed 253 people. Sirisena said he was using emergency powers to ban any form of face covering in...

Forces backing Libya's internationally recognised government fought house-to-house battles with troops loyal to commander Khalifa Haftar in southern parts of the capital Tripoli on Sunday and appeared to be gaining ground. Government soldiers, some in jeans and t-shirts, took cover by...

Spain’s incumbent Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez won the parliamentary elections Sunday without securing a majority to form a government. With 99% of the ballots counted, unofficial results show the Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) won 123 seats in the 350-seat parliament while...

 Eastern Libyan state oil firm AGOCO, a subsidiary of state oil firm NOC, is producing 304,000 barrels a day of oil, its chairman told Reuters Sunday. Mohamed Shatwan said production would rise to 350,000 bpd after new projects such as improving power supply had been completed, a plan...