A Somali court issued an arrest warrant Wednesday on charges of treason for the winner of the southern Jubaland region's election, the latest sign of a growing rift with its semi-autonomous states.

Argentine ex-president Alberto Fernandez appeared in court on Wednesday for questioning in a case of alleged corruption relating to insurance policies taken out by government departments during his ...

Israel told the International Criminal Court on Wednesday that it will appeal against arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister on war crimes charges.

Mali's ruling general on Wednesday made an unusual reference to preparations for elections that would put an end to military rule, albeit without setting out a timeline.

China has freed three Americans considered wrongfully detained in a swap with the United States, US officials said Wednesday, ...

Crude futures are little changed ahead of the U.S. Thanksgiving Day holiday, with the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire taking some risk premium out of the trade. U.S. inventory data were mixed, with a bigge ...

Swiss banking giant UBS, which took over its rival Credit Suisse last year, has been acquitted on appeal in a high-profile money laundering trial, Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court said Wednesday.

Jihadists launched a suprise attack on the Syrian army in the northern province of Aleppo on Wednesday, sparking clashes in which 35 combatants were killed, a war monitor said.

Spanish airline Air Europa's owner Globalia said Wednesday Air France-KLM was interested in taking a stake in the carrier.

Authorities from dozens of countries seized 225 metric tons of cocaine in a six-week mega-operation in the Pacific and unearthed a new trafficking route to Australia, the Colombian Navy said Wednesday ...

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said Wednesday it had achieved "victory" over Israel and that its fighters were at the ready, after a truce between the two sides took effect.

The Dutch government is considering joining a European long-range missile project and the French-German MGCS tank development scheme, its defence minister said on Wednesday.