A Belgian bomb squad found no explosives after a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb in his car was stopped by police, Brussels prosecutors said on Tuesday. "It's a mentally unstable person," a spokeswoman for prosecutors said. "The military did not find any explosive in his vehicle."...

Reporting by Abdul Salam Haj Bakri (Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian Republican Guard officer complained of hunger to the Russians at a time when the administration of military appointments provided expired canned food to the army, causing several cases of poisoning in the regime-controlled...

Venezuelan security forces have wielded excessive force to suppress protests, killing dozens and have arbitrarily detained 5,000 people since April, including 1,000 still in custody, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday. In preliminary findings based on 135 interviews...

The U.N. warned of a deepening crisis Tuesday after another asylum-seeker was found dead at a Pacific island detention camp, urging Australia to ensure protection for vulnerable refugees as closure of the facility nears. Canberra sends anyone who tries to enter the country by boat without a...