A miner was killed and five others were injured in clashes that erupted on Monday in a gold-rich area of Sudan’s northern River Nile State, according to local government officials. Abdul Moneim al-Saim, commissioner of the Barbar locality in which the incident occurred, attributed the...

BERLIN (Reuters)- Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday she would work with France to tackle pressing issues such as trade policy and the war in Syria after the Social Democrats (SPD) voted to join a coalition government with her conservatives. Merkel welcomed the vote by a majority of...

Officials in Poland say four people have died and 24 have been injured in the collapse of an apartment block in the western city of Poznan. A spokesman for the local firefighters, Slawomir Brandt, said 24 teams of firefighters were working in the rubble after the collapse Sunday of a...

Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the detention of two journalists for 15 days pending an investigation after their arrest while preparing a report on the historic Alexandria tramway. Defense attorney Mohammed Hafez said Friday's decision regarding free-lance journalists May al-Sabbagh and...