Russia's foreign minister threatened Wednesday to retaliate against Britain for "anti-Russian measures", with the two countries at loggerheads over the poisoning of a spy in southern England. Speaking after a meeting with Japanese counterpart Taro Kono, Sergey Lavrov said: "If the...

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was placed in custody Tuesday as part of an investigation into allegations he received millions of euros in illegal campaign financing from the regime of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. A judicial source with direct knowledge of the case told the...

Rockets fired on a market in a regime-controlled neighborhood of Damascus Tuesday killed 35 people and wounded more than 20 others, Syrian state-run media said, marking one of the highest death tolls in a single attack targeting the capital. The government blamed rebels in the eastern suburbs...

 India said on Tuesday that 39 Indians, who were believed to have been kidnapped by Daesh (ISIS) militants in Iraq in 2014, had been confirmed dead after their bodies were found. The bodies were recovered from a mass grave and DNA tests had confirmed them to be those of the...