The use of rubber bullets by security forces has become a major source of controversy in France because of dozens of injuries to people during violent demonstration by "yellow vest" protesters. Campaigners lost a legal bid on Friday to suspend their use in France. Elsewhere in Europe,...

Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaido, has called on the country’s citizens to stage "the biggest march in the history of Venezuela" in a new bid to up pressure on embattled President Nicolas Maduro to call early elections. Major European countries have set a weekend deadline for...

A U.S. court ordered the government of Syria's Bashar al-Assad to pay $302 million dollars in reparations for the killing of an American correspondent. Marie Colvin was killed after the makeshift media center she was working in the Syrian city of Homs was blasted with artillery fire....

Romania, the European Union’s current term president, on Friday voiced strong support for Turkey's bid to join the bloc. "We will do our utmost to succeed and to give a very clear signal about the importance we are attaching to the negotiation process for Turkey's accession to the EU,”...