Egyptian prosecutors referred Lina Attalah, editor-in-chief of independent news outlet Mada Masr, to trial on a charge of operating a website without a license, after questioning her for more than six hours

Tourists and locals gathered at a temple in southern Egypt on Thursday to witness a rare solar phenomenon

A magnitude 7 earthquake has struck China’s Tibet on Thursday evening, with no immediate reports of damage or casualties

Brazil’s elections have shifted Congress further right, regardless of who wins the presidential runoff between Flávio Bolsonaro and incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

An Australian coroner was moved to tears after hearing from the sister of an 8-year-old girl who died when her insulin was withheld by her parents on religious grounds

Serbian voters overseas are facing major hurdles in casting their ballots in a tight parliamentary election this weekend

Two women from Austria and Switzerland have been freed in Niger after spending more than a year and half in captivity, officials and local media reported Thursday

Police say a foreign citizen has been beaten to death by a group of around 50 people during a protest march in South Africa

One figure sets Venezuela apart from the rest of the world: 303 billion barrels of so-called proven oil reserves

The International Criminal Court and its embattled staff have won the European Union’s top human rights honor

A city in South Korea is again trying to free a huge dusky shark from a narrow canal

A man has been charged with threatening an Australian lawmaker’s staff with nunchucks days after another legislator was critically injured when a man repeatedly hit her with a car

Women are protesting in Poland for access to free and legal abortion services

Russia has launched a nighttime missile barrage on Kyiv while its military says it intercepted more than 800 Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and other Russian cities

Russia prides itself on its digital advances — from an extensive e-commerce services sector to ambitious plans for developing artificial intelligence

Actor and comedian Russell Brand is facing allegations of rape and sexual assault in a London trial

Construction projects are putting at risk a mangrove forest that stands between Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City and rising seas

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has invited health ministers to an “extraordinary virtual meeting” as Ebola spreads across the continent

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have raised costs for American families and upended decades of trade as he unveiled a $6.2 billion plan to protect Canada’s manufacturing heartland

Brazil’s Supreme Court has suspended an environmental permit for a major gold mining project in the Amazon rainforest