Eight people have been injured in a shooting outside a mosque in southern France, officials have confirmed.
Worshippers leaving the Arrahma mosque in Avignon were approached by two hooded suspects at about 22:30 local time (21:30 GMT) on Sunday.
The suspects, carrying a handgun and a shotgun, arrived in a Renault Clio before opening fire on the crowd, La Provence newspaper reports.
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Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have extended the deadline for Qatar to accept a list of demands or face further sanctions by 48 hours.
The initial deadline for Qatar to agree to the group's 13 demands, including the shutting down of the Al Jazeera news network, expired on Sunday.
The Gulf state has said that it will submit its formal response in a letter delivered to Kuwait on...
At least eight people, including four civilians, have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a camp for internally displaced people in central Iraq, security sources told Al Jazeera.
The attacker on Sunday approached a checkpoint and an aid group at the 60 KM camp in western Ramadi, in Iraq's Anbar province.
The AFP news agency quoted a doctor and a police officer as putting...
Brazilian police arrested an infamous drug kingpin who evaded authorities for three decades and underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance.
Luiz Carlos da Rocha, whose organization introduced five tons of cocaine into the market, including the United States, was arrested Saturday in the city of Sorriso in the central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, federal police said. He was living...
Iraqi forces have surrounded Islamic State fighters in Mosul in their efforts to retake the second-largest city in Iraq, the military said.
Federal police units recaptured a bridge over the Tigris River on Saturday -- the last escape route for the Islamic State, the military said.
The forces took over Ibn Sina Teaching Hospital and other medical facilities, including a blood bank and a...
The USS Stethem, a U.S. Navy destroyer, sailed Sunday within 12 miles of a disputed island in the South China Sea claimed by China, a U.S. official said.
The Sethem approached the Triton Island in the 30-island Paracel archipelago, which are also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. The Paracel Islands are known as the Xisha Islands in China and the Hoang Sa Archipelago in Vietnam.
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Pope Francis has replaced Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, who was Vatican's doctrinal chief who handled sex abuse cases, with the cardinal's deputy.
On Saturday, Francis named Archbishop Luis Ladaria, 73, to succeed conservative Mueller as the Vatican's doctrine chief with Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
On Thursday, the pope granted another conservative, Cardinal George Pell, a leave of...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was released from prison Sunday morning after being granted parole.
Olmert, 71, served 16 months of his 27-month corruption sentence at a prison near Tel Aviv.
Olmert became prime minister in 2006, when a stroke incapacitated Ariel Sharon, but resigned in 2009 when police recommended charges against him for accepting $161,000 in bribes for promotion...
A Saudi columnist has been suspended after he went too far in praise of the country's leader, King Salman.
Ramadan al-Anzi's column in al-Jazirah newspaper lauded the monarch using attributes usually reserved for God.
And while effusive praise of the king is customary - and even expected - comparisons to deities are frowned upon in Saudi Arabia.
As a result, the "astonished" King Salman...
At least one person has died and a number of people wounded after a huge fire broke out at a camp for Syrian refugees in eastern Lebanon.
The blaze took hold at the camp near Qab Elias town in the Bekaa Valley. Footage from the scene showed near total devastation.
The UN refugee agency told Reuters the camp had housed 102 families.
Lebanon has one million registered Syrian refugees, but...
