French President Emmanuel Macron's government wants to shrink the country's parliament by 25% as part of an overhaul of French institutions. Now it's up to legislators themselves to approve. The government introduced a draft law Wednesday that would reduce the number of seats in the...

At least 13 civilians, including a mother with her four children, were killed in Idlib, a de-escalation zone in northwest Syria, when the regime and Russian airstrikes hit the region, according to local sources on Wednesday. Assad regime’s airstrikes at Maarret al-Numan town killed...

An abandoned oil tanker anchored off war-torn Yemen that is degrading along with its cargo could explode and cause an environmental disaster, experts said Wednesday as UN inspectors prepared to visit. The ship "Safer", used as a floating storage platform, is laden with some 1.1 million...

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido admitted on Wednesday that talks with the government of President Nicolas Maduro aimed a resolving the country's political crisis "aren't working." Talks mediated by Norway first took place in May in Oslo with several subsequent rounds in Barbados....