The German cabinet Wednesday approved measures to fight right-wing political violence, including tougher rules on gun ownership and stricter monitoring of hate speech online, responding to a rise in hate crime by militant extremists. Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has been under...

Syria's government condemned what it called the occupation of its land and the opposition demanded justice and peace Wednesday at the opening of a U.N.-backed panel designed to bring about political reconciliation ending years of civil war. The first meeting of Syria's so-called...

The resignation of Lebanon's government under pressure from the street looked set to ease a two-week-old nationwide lockdown but protesters vowed they would keep pushing for deeper change. President Michel Aoun has not yet accepted Saad Hariri's resignation as prime minister, with no clear...

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said Canberra will hold China to account on issues such as human rights, insisting that staying quiet on sensitive issues is not in Australia’s national interests. Relations between Canberra and its most important trading partner have deteriorated...