KINSHASA, Congo – A top U.S. State Department official says the United Nations and Congo need to work together in the fight against rebels in the country’s troubled east. In February, the United Nations formally ended support for a Congo military offensive against the FDLR militant group after two Congolese …

CAIRO – An Egyptian court has sentenced 12 alleged supporters of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group to two years in prison over violence in the city of Suez in December 2013. Six others were acquitted in the case Saturday, which involved street clashes, attempted murder and battery charges. The government …

ATHENS, Greece – Forget bailouts or austerity riots. The hot topic now in Greece is toilets. Police guarding Greece’s parliament say they are no longer being allowed inside the building to use its bathrooms. The Police Officers Association in Athens said in a statement Monday that uniformed officers have been …

BRUSSELS – European Union lawmakers have called for the strict monitoring of human rights, the rule of law and democracy in EU member Hungary after its prime minister raised questions about whether the death penalty should be reintroduced. The lawmakers called Wednesday on the EU’s executive commission to “immediately initiate …

BONN, Germany – Two weeks of U.N. climate talks are set to end with negotiators trimming a draft global climate pact, but leaving core sticking points to be untangled at later sessions before the December summit in Paris where the landmark agreement is meant to be adopted. Frustrated by the …

TORONTO – Canadian health officials said Wednesday a fatal case of H5N1 bird flu has been reported in Canada, the first such case in North America. The victim was travelling from China when symptoms first appeared. Health Minister Rona Ambrose said the case, in Alberta, was an isolated one and …

BERLIN – A free speech activist from Azerbaijan who spent 10 months in the Swiss embassy has left the country aboard the jet of Switzerland’s foreign minister. Emin Huseynov landed in Switzerland late Friday with Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, who had attended the opening ceremony of the European Games …

Our nation isexperiencingacrisis that is ­shockingly –a dirty little secret fewof usseem towant to know about. Officials report that 90 percent of elder abuseactuallyis occurringinhomes, notininstitutions.And, unlike accidents,and lack of know-how,elder abuse is intentional, takingthe form of physical, sexual, financial and emotional abuse/neglect, or a combination of these,and apparently it …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish authorities briefly detained three journalists at the border with Syria for angering the local governor with questions about possible infiltrators from the Islamic State group, one of the journalists said in comments published Wednesday. In another incident illustrating the continuing crackdown on media freedoms in Turkey, …

The U.S. State Department recently conducted an assessment of its efforts to counter ISIS propaganda. The conclusion boiled down to the obvious: It is a failure. ISIS is growing in popularity, not only in the Sunni Middle East, but among Muslims living outside the region. Still, the State Department experts …