Washington Post: World

Thousands of Catalan pro-independence activists are protesting in Barcelona to mark the anniversary of demonstrations that fired up the region’s secessionist drive and brought Spain’s worst political crisis in decades

Germany and France have launched a project fighting illicit firearms trafficking in the Western Balkans as part of preparations for those nations to seek European Union membership

Puerto Ricans are marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria with choirs, protests and a funeral procession

Doctors on a desolate island in the South Pacific have said it's an urgent medical crisis and the children need to be brought to Australia for treatment.

The victims were often found mutilated. Investigators had suggested that people might be next.

Egyptian court orders release from detention of former president Hosni Mubarak’s two sons

Officials say that the rare earthquake that hit Denmark over the weekend was a tad stronger than first believed

Polish police are looking for a man who threw a stone into a synagogue in Gdansk as members of the Jewish community were praying on the Yom Kippur holiday

Jailed separatists have become an emotional symbol for the Catalan independence movement and a key stumbling block in negotiations with Spain out of the country’s political deadlock

The European Union and Serbia have agreed that the bloc’s border agency teams will work with Serbian police to help secure the Balkan country’s borders against migrants