Various news

A coffee grinder and castor bean seeds procured online were used to create the deadly toxin ricin for a planned Islamic extremist attack on Germany, authorities say.

IQ scores have been steadily falling for the past few decades, and environmental factors are to blame, a new study says.

Angela Merkel has come under under intense pressure to tighten Germany’s refugee policies or risk the collapse of her coalition government as an increasingly urgent argument over how to handle irregular migration rattles Europe.

Russian mercenaries of the private military company (PMC) “Wagner” are located on the territory of the Berengo Manor in the Central African Republic (CAR). This is reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to the French edition of Le Monde.

Governments in Skopje and Athens have faced a furious backlash as the challenge of solving one of the world’s most bitter diplomatic feuds hit home just a day after Macedonia announced it was willing to change its name.

A bipartisan group of 12 senators has written a letter to senior Trump administration officials, urging them to craft a “comprehensive strategy” to counter covert Chinese interference in democracies around the world.

About half of pensioners reported having occasional problems paying bills, while 10 percent said they regularly cut spending on items like food and medicine.

Tens of thousands of people in the autonomous Basque country of northern Spain have formed a human chain to push for greater autonomy.

Thirty-five deputies of the European Parliament signed a letter to the authorities of Ukraine with an appeal to support the March of Equality planned for June 17 in Kyiv. The relevant appeal addressed to President Petro Poroshenko, as well as members of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada, …

A U.S. commando was killed and four others were wounded on Friday when they came under fire in Somalia during an operation against al-Shabaab militants, the U.S. military said.