House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has canceled a congressional trip to Afghanistan to visit U.S. service members there after the Trump administration leaked plans of the visit to the war-ravished country, her office said Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump a day earlier barred Pelosi and a group...

The German parliament's lower house approved on Friday a contentious law to limit asylum applications from Georgia and three Maghreb countries Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Some 509 German lawmakers, mostly from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative-left coalition government, voted in...

French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner proposed on Friday to allow police to use tear gas to ensure public order in the wake of Yellow Vest protests which have rocked the country since November. In a statement, he argued that more people will be injured when police does not use tear...

Over the course of 2018, Israeli forces killed a total of 290 Palestinians, most of whom had not taken part in any hostilities, an Israeli human rights group reported Friday.  “Israeli security forces killed 290 Palestinians [in 2018], including 55 minors,” rights group B’Tselem...