Italian police said they arrested 12 alleged neo-Nazis Wednesday belonging to an active cell prepared to carry out "violent actions targeting senior officials of institutions".

Award-winning Syrian photographer Anas Alkharboutli, who worked for German press agency DPA, was killed in an air strike near the Syrian city of Hama, his employer said Wednesday.

Britain's Labour government will carry out the first renationalisation of a private train operator in May, transport minister Heidi Alexander announced Wednesday.

US President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro -- who went to prison for contempt of Congress -- would return as senior counselor for trade ...

Messaging app Telegram will deploy new tools to prevent the spread of images of child sexual abuse after teaming up with the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), the UK-based charity said Wednesday.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday the ceasefire in Lebanon was "holding" despite a series of incidents between Israel and Iran-backed militants Hezbollah.

Cuba's power grid failed overnight Wednesday, the government said, triggering a nationwide blackout that plunged the country into darkness for the third time in two months.

Veteran French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, the target of no-confidence motions in parliament on Wednesday, has turned an extraordinarily calm disposition into his trademark during a half century in ...

Ukraine's security service said Wednesday it had detained a 16-year-old girl accused of helping Moscow orchestrate an airstrike on the northern Chernigiv region.

Donald Trump's presidential election victory is fuelling fears that Britain must choose between its "special relationship" ...

The UN's cultural organisation added Aleppo's famous soap to its intangible cultural heritage list Tuesday with Syria's ...

People who vape while still smoking cigarettes are less likely to successfully quit than those who only do one or the other, a new study said on Wednesday.