TRIPOLI, Reuters - Libyan factions agreed to continue United Nations-backed negotiations in Geneva next week over ending the country's political crisis, the U.N. said, though key representatives from Tripoli's self-declared government have stayed away. Nearly four years after a...

(Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande reassured Muslims on Thursday that his country respected them and their religion but said  France  would not compromise on its commitment to freedom and democracy. Speaking a week after Islamist militant violence that killed...

(Reuters) - Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids on Thursday against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch "terrorist attacks on a grand scale". Coming a week after Islamist gunmen killed 17 people in...

(Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said after talks in Cairo on Thursday he hoped that a Canadian journalist working for Qatar-based Al Jazeera television could be released from prison in Egypt . Canadian-Egyptian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and...