A Vienna court sentenced a Romanian man to two years in jail Friday for human trafficking after he drove dozens of migrants across Austria in August in a van whose doors had been welded shut. Austrian police rescued 26 migrants from the van, including three young children aged 5 and 6...

John Herbst, a former U.S. diplomat, wasn’t trying to flatter his German hosts when he took a dig at Washington late last month — he was just describing a new reality. “Berlin is the critical capital in the West for settling a just solution to the crisis in Ukraine,” he said while...

In a refugee camp outside Myanmar's provincial capital Sittwe, Soe Hlaing was holding a pink card, the most coveted of the rainbow of documents indicating citizenship status, which gives him a vote in Sunday's historic election. But the 44-year-old Muslim said he will not be exercising...

One month has passed since the beginning  of what some are calling a new Palestinian “Intifada” (uprising) in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which has left scores of Palestinians dead and hundreds injured. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the...