French authorities Wednesday set up portable toilets and water taps on a road near the northern port of Calais after losing a challenge to a court order to provide sanitation for migrants. Ten portable toilets and a bank of five taps were installed outside a centre run by the charity Secours...

Western-backed Syrian rebels said they had shot down a Syrian military jet Tuesday in a desert area in southern Syria near the border with Jordan, where the army had recently advanced and seized border posts. Saad al Haj, spokesman for the Osoud al Sharqiya rebel group leader, told Reuters the...

Turkish police have launched operations to track down 33 former staff of a national scientific research agency who are alleged to have been involved in last year's failed coup attempt, the state-run Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday. Anadolu said the suspects were alleged to have used...

Tensions on the Korean peninsula eased slightly on Monday as South Korea's president said resolving Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions must be done peacefully and key U.S. officials played down the risk of an imminent war with North Korea. Concern that North Korea is close to achieving its goal...