Pollsters hoping to avoid further election shocks are trying to improve the quality of their data ahead of the 2017 French presidential election, by asking questions differently and fine-tuning their collection methods. Opinion polls have come under scrutiny after the unexpected election of...

( BBC )- Hasan Hasanovic was standing in front of his house in Srebrenica when he saw the Bosnian Serb soldiers coming in. The only way to survive was to run. That was on 11 July 1995. Srebrenica had been declared a safe area for civilians by the United Nations two years earlier. Bosnian...

Hundreds marched through Ankara Thursday in protest at Russian and Iranian involvement in the siege of Aleppo, the latest in a series of demonstrations in Europe over the Syria crisis. Up to 800 people joined the demonstration, with some chanting "Aleppo is the world's shame" outside the...

An attempt to evacuate people in need of medical attention from rebel-held eastern Aleppo stalled on Thursday when fighters loyal to the Syrian government fired on the convoy, wounding three, the head of the ambulance service said. The vehicles had intended to leave under a deal to evacuate...