The European Union on Friday stressed the need to coordinate with Washington after the U.S. Senate proposed new sanctions against Russia that have provoked a sharp response from Germany. "It is important for possible new measures to be coordinated between international partners to ensure...

 The U.N. children's agency is warning that a critical funding shortfall is threatening aid to 9 million Syrian children, both in their country and among the refugees in neighboring states. UNICEF says the $220 million budget gap to its Syria relief programs is the worst it has faced...

In a community hall in the Spanish region of Catalonia, two independence activists take the stage against a backdrop of red and yellow striped Catalan flags: a Syrian-born tourist guide and a Spanish member of parliament born in Uruguay. With barely three months to go before an independence...

Egyptian police have arrested dozens of activists in the face of opposition calls for protests on Friday after parliament passed a controversial agreement to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia. A lawyer working to release the activists said about 50 had been arrested across Egypt since...