About 40 unidentified people armed with metal bars and using fireworks as projectiles tried to storm a police station in the Paris suburbs on Saturday night, officials said. "Violent attack last night on the police station of Champigny with mortar shots and various projectiles. No police...

Massive forest fires in war-torn Syria this week have killed at least two people and burned swaths of land, state media and officials said, as blazes also hit neighbouring Lebanon. Syrian state television on Saturday morning broadcast scenes from the affected areas, where firefighters...

Queen Elizabeth II has used her delayed birthday honors list to celebrate the selfless work of people - some more famous than others - in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to honoring the work of doctors and nurses, the queen handed awards late Friday to delivery...

Tens of thousands of Tunisians have lost their jobs in a worsening economic crisis exacerbated by efforts to stem rising cases of novel coronavirus, a key employers' federation has warned. "The first wave of the epidemic (March to June) resulted in the loss of 165,000 jobs," Bechir Boujday,...