A committee at the European Parliament on Monday gave the thumbs up to scrapping the twice-yearly clock change in the European Union but with a two-year delay to 2021. Last year, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker kicked off the debate with his proposal to halt the...

Kurdish-led forces supported by air strikes from an international coalition evacuated civilians held as "human shields" Monday after smashing their way into the jihadists' last scrap of territory in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic Forces and its allies from the US-led coalition...

The Arab League on Monday urged the international community to pressure Israel to halt its "grave violations" against Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. In a statement, the league's secretariat-general condemned Israel’s policy of preventing Palestinian Muslims from praying at the site by...

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's offer of a new constitution and a truncated next term has so far failed to satisfy protesters, who faced off with riot police overnight and want their longtime leader out of office now. Crowds of mainly young protesters demonstrated in Algiers late...