Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:17pm EST
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone on Saturday that a four-way summit to discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine would not take place until there was real progress on the Minsk peace plan.
January 09, 2015 10:53 AM
LONDON—Muslims in Europe are already feeling the backlash from the Paris attack.
Sat Jan 10, 2015 4:34am EST
Pope Francis returns to Asia for the second time in less than six months, traveling to Sri Lanka and the Philippines in coming days to underscore his concern for inter-religious dialogue, poverty and the environment.
January 08, 2015 6:09 PM
MONROVIA—The International Monetary Fund is preparing around $150 million in additional support to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the countries at the heart of the Ebola epidemic, the fund's representative in Liberia told Reuters on Thursday.
Fri Jan 9, 2015 6:23am EST
Indonesia search and rescue teams hunting for the wreck of an AirAsia passenger jet detected pings in their efforts to find the black box flight recorders on Friday, an official said, 12 days after the plane went missing with 162 people on board.
Fri Jan 9, 2015 9:05am EST
At least 2,100 people died in Syrian prisons last year and the bodies of many showed signs of torture, a monitoring group said on Friday, quoting the families of deceased detainees.
January 07, 2015 7:42 AM
BEIRUT—
A storm buffeted the Middle East with blizzards, rain and strong winds on Wednesday, keeping people at home across much of the region and raising concerns for Syrian refugees facing freezing temperatures in flimsy shelters.
JAKARTA Wed Jan 7, 2015 11:37pm EST
Scores of divers plunged into the Java Sea on Thursday to search the wreckage of an AirAsia jet for the black box recorders that could reveal why the plane crashed, Indonesia's search and rescue agency said.
PARIS/REIMS Thu Jan 8, 2015 1:25am EST
The youngest of three French nationals being sought by police for a suspected Islamist militant attack that killed 12 people at a satirical magazine on Wednesday turned himself in to the police, an official at the Paris prosecutor's office said.
