French police fired tear gas at protesters during a tense standoff in central Paris Sunday in the aftermath of the annual military parade on the Champs-Elysees, AFP reporters said. Officers attempted to disperse dozens of protesters, who chanted anti-government slogans, knocked down...

Members of a feared Sudanese paramilitary force shot dead a civilian Sunday in a town southeast of the capital as angry residents protested against the paramilitaries, witnesses and doctors said. The incident occurred in El-Souk in the state of Sinnar when residents of the town rallied...

A huge blaze broke out Thursday at a gas-fired power station just outside Moscow with a plume of smoke and flames surging 50 meters into the sky, Russian television showed. The fire at Power Station No. 27 broke out around 11:00 a.m. Thursday. The emergencies ministry said that at least...

At least three people were killed and four wounded when three mortar bombs hit the northern Iraqi town of Shirqat on Tuesday, police officials and hospital sources said. Police officials in the area said Islamic State militants were involved in the attack and the mortars were fired from a...