Algeria's president Abdelmadjid Tebboune named Abdelaziz Djerad, a political analyst and university professor, as the country's new prime minister on Saturday, state TV reported.  A former diplomat and presidential advisor, Djerad teaches political science at the University of...

Ukrainian authorities and pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country have agreed to swap dozens of prisoners Sunday, the self-declared rebel republic of Donetsk said. Both sides had said earlier this month they would carry out a prisoner exchange by the end of the year, following...

The head of a hardline French trade union on Friday vowed to press on with a crippling strike that has dampened the festive season, with the stoppages becoming the longest-lasting such action since the 1980s. The strike against pension reforms championed by President Emmanuel Macron began...

Algeria's newly elected President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has chaired a rare meeting of the country's top security body to discuss contingency plans for a threatened Turkish military intervention in neighboring Libya. The High Security Council met Thursday and "discussed the situation in the...