Poland is to build observation towers along its land border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, according to a Polish news agency.

An explosion and blaze rip through a plant manufacturing the controversial chemical PX in Fujian province in eastern China.

Seven members of the same family drown while trying to rescue a teenage girl who fell into a reservoir, state media report.

Cyprus lifts the last remaining capital controls it imposed on its banking system during the financial crisis of 2013.

Turkey's SuperLig is suspended for one week following the attack on the Fenerbahce team bus on Saturday.

Islamist rebel fighters are believed to have released some 300 Kurdish men taken captive earlier on Monday in northwest Syria.

Two Spanish cavers die and one survives in a complicated rescue effort in Morocco's Atlas mountains.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says he will return tax revenues unfrozen by Israel because money has been deducted.