Germany's Foreign Ministry says it has been granted consular access to a German-Turkish journalist arrested in Turkey. Ministry spokesman Martin Schaefer said Wednesday that consular officials will visit reporter Deniz Yucel in an Istanbul-area prison on Thursday for a second time since his...

A cholera outbreak in Yemen has killed 209 people in recent weeks with 17,200 suspected cases across the war-torn country, the United Nations children's agency said Wednesday. UNICEF's Yemen mission said that there had been an "alarming increase" in cholera-related deaths. The agency's...

Germany's foreign minister Wednesday said parliament would likely vote on withdrawing troops involved in the fight against ISIS in Syria from a Turkish military base if Ankara persisted in denying German lawmakers access to the site. Turkish officials have told Reuters a visit by German...

Syria's government and opposition figures were expected to respond Wednesday to a "surprise" U.N. proposal on mapping a way to a new constitution, the second day of renewed peace talks in Geneva. The sixth round of U.N.-backed negotiations is the latest drive to bring a political solution to...