French police have released three female suspects after questioning, but will keep nine other people in custody as part of an anti-terror investigation connected to last week's attacks in Paris that have put Europe on high alert, officials said on Sunday.
Iran's foreign minister said on Monday that he could hold fresh talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry this week on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Shivering outside a fast-food restaurant in one of Greece's poorest cities, 24-year-old Nikos hands out election leaflets ahead of Sunday's snap poll. Few passers-by are interested.
Germany's finance minister is cautioning Greek politicians against promising things they can't deliver in upcoming elections and making clear that he opposes a new debt write-down for Athens.
The four Argentine sailors disappeared in late August when a storm off Brazil's southern coast knocked out their luxury yacht's mast and rudder, but their families believe they're still alive.
The chief nuclear negotiator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and former senior officials and scholars from the United States are holding unofficial meetings in Singapore, with discussions including the DPRK's nuclear program.
Cuba on Saturday received a group of visiting US lawmakers, the first since the two neighboring countries decided to restore ties.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is planning a trade mission to Cuba, the Governor's Office confirmed on Saturday. Details of the trip have yet to be announced.
Japan's battle-scarred main opposition party on Sunday chose Katsuya Okada as its new leader as it tries to recover from a disastrous showing in December's general election and years of drift.
With Europe on edge, soldiers guarded possible terror targets in Belgium on Saturday while police in Greece detained at least two suspects as part of a widening counterterrorism dragnet across the continent.
Almost half of French oppose publication of cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Muhammad, according to a poll on Sunday, as global debate deepened on the limits of free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings.
The Islamic State group released more than 200 mostly elderly members of northern Iraq's Yazidi minority on Saturday who had been held for months, officials said.
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