The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged Greece to be "realistic" about its economic goals, and reiterated the longstanding concern the country may yet need additional debt relief. The IMF board welcomed the agreement Athens reached with the European Union in June to reduce the...

Israeli MPs are to return from summer recess next week to discuss mounting criticism of a new law proclaiming the country the nation state of the Jewish people, parliament said Tuesday. President Reuven Rivlin has meanwhile reportedly said he will sign the law in Arabic, in an apparent...

German authorities say a fourth person has died from injuries suffered when a man drove his van into a crowd in the northwestern city of Muenster almost four months ago. Police told news agency dpa Monday that a 56-year-old man from the Netherlands died in the hospital Sunday. Twenty...

Pro-Syrian regime forces advanced in a Daesh (ISIS) pocket in southwest Syria Sunday, a military media center run by Damascus' ally Hezbollah reported, despite a threat to hostages the militants seized last week. Syrian state television broadcast footage from near the scene of the...