A Moroccan court adjourned Thursday for two weeks the trial of two dozen suspects charged in connection with the murder of two Scandinavian hikers minutes after it opened. Danish student Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, and 28-year-old Norwegian Maren Ueland had their throats slit before...

Schools, health facilities and residential areas have been hit by the worst barrel bombing campaign in rebel-held northwestern Syria in 15 months, the United Nations regional humanitarian coordinator Panos Moumtzis told Reuters Thursday. Russian and Syrian forces intensified air strikes and...

At least eight Africa migrants have died in makeshift camps in war-hit Yemen, the U.N.'s migration agency said Thursday, warning thousands were living under "inhumane conditions". The International Organization for Migration said they had died of complications related to acute watery...

An Iranian tanker was forced to seek repairs at a Saudi port after suffering "engine failure and loss of control", the Iranian oil ministry's SHANA news agency reported Thursday. The rare docking in Iran's regional arch-foe, came as Washington was poised to end all remaining exemptions to...