Leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) industrial nations meet on Sunday in the Bavarian Alps for a summit overshadowed by Greece's debt crisis and ongoing violence in Ukraine. Host Angela Merkel is hoping to secure commitments from her G7 guests to tackle global warming to build momentum in...

An explosion apparently caused by an electrical fault injured several people at an opposition party rally in Turkey's mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, days before parliamentary elections. Television footage showed people being carried out on stretchers as organizers of the rally...

Tripoli- Lebanon (The Daily Star)- A fire broke out at a Syrian refugee camp in the northern town of Minyeh Thursday, destroying 13 tents and lightly injuring two people, three days after another fire killed a refugee baby in an east Lebanon camp. Firefighters rushed to the scene and put out...

Steady advances by insurgents on key fronts in Syria mean President Bashar al-Assad is under more military pressure than at any point in the four-year-old war. Losses in the north, east and south to groups including al Qaeda's Syrian arm and Islamic State may test Assad's hold...