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Friday’s meeting in Paris, which will witness the participation of foreign ministers from 26 countries, has already been denounced by the Israeli government.

After being denied humanitarian access to besieged areas in the war-torn country, the council will meet Friday to assess possible alternatives.

The Socialist government in France refuses to scrap labor changes despite fears the standoff could disrupt Euro 2016, which kicks off on June 10.

The assault aims to cut off Islamic State’s last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish frontier by seizing territory in northern Syria west of the Euphrates River.

The absence of a deal Thursday is fueling broader concerns that the once-powerful oil cartel is losing its influence over global oil markets.

Russian lobbying has exacerbated splits in the European Union over sanctions on Moscow.

The industry is set to make decisions in coming months on streaming aircraft data after a series of deadly incidents.

Nearly 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottomans in 1915-1916 — a massacre most historians now term genocide.

A French ship reportedly picked up signals from one of the black boxes of crashed Cairo-bound Flight 804.

Dozens of Muslims were killed in religious clashes in the western state of Gujarat at a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi was its chief minister.

The al Qaeda-affiliated group claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attack on the Mogadishu hotel that killed at least 16.

The zoo called the birth “a true miracle” for the endangered species whose numbers are fewer than 2,000 worldwide.

The move comes after the discovery of metal fatigue in the gear box of a Super Puma helicopter that crashed in Norway in April.

Torrential rainfall caused flash floods leading to deaths of at least four people across the three countries, where rescue operations are underway.

The Treasury Department called Pyongyang a “primary money laundering concern,” and announced new restrictions to cut access to global banking systems.

On Thursday, workers at 19 nuclear power plants across France will join the nationwide protests over a controversial labor reform bill.

Ri Su Yong, vice chairman for international affairs of the ruling Workers’ Party, made the comments at a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday.

The European Central Bank, already in the midst of a massive quantitative easing program, kept monetary policy unchanged Thursday.

President Nicolás Maduro accused the Organization of American States of colluding with the U.S. to take the OPEC member’s oil resources.

The statement issued by the council on Wednesday condemned two late-April tests and a failed missile launch by Pyongyang on Tuesday.

Colonel Ali Mohamed, a Mogadishu police officer, said the hotel on Maka Al Mukaram Road was hit by a car bomb that rammed its gate.

The Leave campaign’s immigration proposal would end the automatic right for European Union citizens to work in the United Kingdom.

The growing rebel crisis in southern Nigeria has unfolded as the Nigerian military has sought to weaken an Islamic insurgency by Boko Haram in the northeast.

Russia's military will hold more than 2,000 drills this summer, incorporating experience gained on the ground in Syria.

The world installed more solar, wind and hydropower in 2015 than in any previous year, even as fossil fuel prices plummeted.

The limited growth projected for the next few years is threatened by a potential Brexit and other developments, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Two ships became available after a French deal with Russia was canceled in 2014.

The alliance's focus on conflict in cyberspace reflects, in part, growing concern over Russia's increasing assertiveness in Eastern Europe.

The carcasses were found when wildlife authorities were removing live tigers from the premises of the Buddhist temple amid reports of wildlife trafficking.