Four people, including a 16-years old local of Syrian descent, were detained on Thursday in connection with threats of an attack on a synagogue in the German city of Hagen, Herbert Reul, the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, said

Turkey has completed a 221-kilometer (137-mile)-long fence on the border with Iran and plans to make it more than twice as long to stop the surge of Afghan refugees, the interior minister said on Wednesday

Four Republican US senators have sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken urging him to designate the Taliban, (banned in Russia), as a foreign terrorist organization and to act against it to the full extent of the law, Iowa Senator Joni Ernst announced on Wednesday

French rescue services saved 126 immigrants off the northern coast of the country, the Maritime Prefecture of the English Channel and North Sea said

Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said on Friday that she was concerned about extremism from the anti-vaccination movement and those who protest against government measures to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic

Foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin made the comment at a daily briefing in Beijing when asked if China would recognise the new government, whose leaders were named on Tuesday.