Austrian authorities say two men have been arrested and are being investigated for possible links to last month’s attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. State Prosecutor Robert Holzleitner says the two were arrested during the weekend in a migrants’ shelter in Salzburg. Holzleitner said Wednesday that the pair are suspected of “participation in a […]

The United States and Cuba are close to an agreement on restoring regularly scheduled, commercial flights between the countries, a senior American diplomat said Tuesday, as talks on the matter were ongoing. Jeffrey DeLaurentis, who heads the U.S. embassy in Havana, described an aviation deal as one of several in reach for the former Cold […]

The Taliban is on the rise, and they’re leaving behind a bloody wake. Violence in the war-torn country of Afghanistan is increasing, according to a new Pentagon report to Congress that says the Taliban was emboldened by the reduced U.S. military role and are likely to try to build momentum from their 2015 attack strategy. […]

Geneva police were “actively searching” for suspects in connection with an investigation into the Paris terror attacks last month, Swiss security officials said Thursday. Geneva’s security department said that city authorities received word on Wednesday that Swiss federal authorities had flagged “suspicious individuals who could be in Geneva or the Geneva region.” Police were also […]

Since it almost went broke in 2010, Greece has suffered horrific job losses, soaring long-term unemployment, across-the-board income cuts and over-taxation, despite a constant deterioration in state-provided health, education and welfare services. The country is now dotted with the hulks of formerly flourishing factories that for decades churned out wealth for their owners and provided […]