Small groups of protesters gathered in shopping malls across Hong Kong on Sunday amid brief scuffles with riot police as attention turned to an upcoming meeting between Hong Kong’s leader and China’s president. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam is scheduled to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping...

Barrel bombs of Syrian regime helicopters killed a child and wounded seven people in northern Idlib province, the White Helmets said Sunday. The attack hit a bakery in the town of Maarshourin, which falls within a de-escalation zone where acts of aggression are explicitly prohibited,...

France’s CFDT union is opposed to transport strikes over the Christmas period but will call for new actions in January if the government does not drop a pension reform proposal that would encourage more years of work, its leader said on Sunday. In a major overhaul of its pension scheme,...

Algeria's unpopular presidential election was meant to reset the country's politics after months of crisis, but it exposed a rigid system determined to perpetuate itself, analysts say. "You get the impression of two parallel Algerias: a ruling class which congratulates itself on organising...