Greece will face the most stringent monitoring of any European Union country as it attempts to balance its finances over the next few years. The news came as the European Commission confirmed its support of Greece’s plans to reduce its deficit.

Riot police in Greece fired tear gas canisters at youths Monday during a second day of protests commemorating a teenager shot dead by police last year, an incident that sparked the country’s worst unrest in decades. Some of the 3,000...

Women and girls in Darfur are still subjected to widespread rape and sexual assault five years after the start of the conflict, Human Rights Watch says. The New York-based group said neither the Sudanese security forces nor international peacekeepers...