BAMAKO, Mali – A resident and an official said that gunmen killed at least three people in an attack on a village in Mali’s north. A resident of Goundam, 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Timbuktu, said the attackers shot and killed the head of the national guard, his deputy …

CAIRO – A prosecutor in Egypt’s Nile Delta says he has referred 40 people to trial on charges of belonging to the Islamic State group and planning to carry out terrorist attacks. Bilal Abu Khadra, a prosecutor in Egypt’s Sharqiya province, said Sunday that those charged communicated with Islamic State …

LISBON, Portugal – A cell phone text message is straining relations between the two parties in Portugal’s coalition government, which plan to stand together in a general election later this year. Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, in a new biography published late Tuesday, spills some secrets about the tough times …

BERLIN – The German government says it doesn’t expect questions about its spy agency’s cooperation with the U.S. National Security Agency to damage relations with Washington. The government faces questions over reports that the Federal Intelligence Service, known by its acronym BND, may have known of or even helped U.S. …

Dear Viewers, Tuesday,August 26,my first book — My Turn at the Bully Pulpit — comes out and I have absolutely no idea what to expect. I have never done this before, so I confess to being apprehensive. On the plus side, no one dies from poor sales — so no …

DAKAR, Senegal – Doctors Without Borders says members of an armed militia raped women en masse in Congo earlier this month after attacking a town in the eastern South Kivu province. The charity group said Thursday it had treated 127 rape victims between the ages of 14 to 70 who …

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – An Ethiopian official says 200 human smugglers have been detained as part of the government’s efforts to stem the number of citizens illegally trying to migrate to Europe. Ethiopian Federal Affairs Minister Shiferaw Teklemariam told the Ethiopian News Agency late Sunday that the government is looking …

And now the most compelling two minutes in television, the latest from the political grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Click here to watch it! John Kerry: Bush May Use Force As He Deems Necessary For the record, that resolutionJohn Kerry (search)voted for and keeps insisting just authorized the threat …

AKRON, Ohio – A northeast Ohio bridal shop that was linked to an Ebola survivor and later announced plans to close has put its building up for sale. Dallas nurse Amber Vinson visited Coming Attractions Bridal & Formal in Akron days before she was diagnosed with Ebola last fall. The …

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Verisk Analytics is buying Wood Mackenzie for approximately $2.8 billion as it expands overseas and positions itself as a major provider of data analytics in the energy, chemicals, metals and mining sectors. Wood Mackenzie’s customer base includes more than 800 international and national energy and metals …