DOHUK, Iraq — President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey called on Wednesday for Kurdish fighters battling his troops in northeastern Syria to lay down their ...
Ankara is holding up to 50 U.S. nuclear weapons that have long been stored at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, and U.S. officials are now reviewing plans to evacuate ...
SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was shown riding a white horse in the snow on a sacred mountain, in a series of photographs released by state ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has climbed the country's highest mountain on horseback, according to state-run media. A series of photos released by KCNA ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to surmount U.S.-led sanctions on his country in state media reports Wednesday alongside evocative propaganda ...
China threatened unspecified “strong countermeasures” if the U.S. Congress enacts legislation supporting Hong Kong protesters, in a sign of the deepening ...
The U.S. hit Iran with a secret cyberattack after a September strike on two Saudi oil facilities that Washington and Riyadh both blame on Tehran, according to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States carried out a secret cyber operation against Iran in the wake of the Sept. 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities, ...
The United States carried out a secret cyber operation against Iran in the wake of the Sept. 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities, which Washington and ...
The Turkish incursion into northern Syria is dominating the news, but an incident in the Red Sea on Friday morning could turn out to be of equal geostrategic ...
The White House is launching a new effort to slow the speeding Democratic impeachment push, but its noncooperation strategy is being constantly thwarted by ...
Donald Trump's impeachment blockade has collapsed. The president's former top Russia adviser, Fiona Hill — the first White House official to cooperate in ...
A dozen Democratic presidential candidates continued their race to become the left's most favored socialist when they debated Tuesday night. Once again, the ...
Authorities in the Netherlands have launched a major investigation after an apparent family of 7 was discovered living in the basement of an isolated farm, ...
Dutch police acting on a tip-off discovered six young adult siblings who had apparently spent years locked away in a secret room in an isolated farmhouse ...
Dutch authorities were Tuesday trying to piece together the story of a family found living isolated from the outside world in the rural east of the Netherlands.
Dutch authorities are trying to piece together the story of a family found living isolated from the outside world in the rural east of the Netherlands.
LeBron James was once told to shut up and dribble. He didn't like it. Nor should he have. "I get to sit up here and talk about social injustice,” he said, responding ...
Cambodia's ruling elite are patriots who would never hide money abroad, says the country's leader, Hun Sen. But a Reuters investigation shows that Hun Sen's ...
Cambodia's long-ruling prime minister, Hun Sen, had gathered athletes at his imposing office for a televised pep talk. "I don't want to mention politics," he began ...
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge donned colourful outfits as they visit a settlement of the Kalash people to learn more about their culture and unique ...
KATE MIDDLETON, 37, continued her royal tour of Pakistan with Prince William today, and the Duchess of Cambridge donned a traditional Chitrali hat, pairing ...
Kensington Palace shared a video on Instagram, revealing the work that went into decorating the tuk tuk that ferried William and Kate Middleton to Pakistan's ...
Nepotism: It's the oldest political grift in the world. Whether you're a Biden in Ukraine, a Trump in China, a Clinton, Bush or McCain on network television: You ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden's 49-year-old son did himself no favors with his national TV debut Tuesday on ABC so I could understand why the network ...
Rudolph W. Giuliani privately urged President Trump in 2017 to extradite a Turkish cleric living in exile in the United States, a top priority of Turkish President ...
Rudy Giuliani is said to have privately implored President Trump in 2017 to extradite an opponent of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan from the United ...
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard went after the hosts of Tuesday's Democratic primary debate — CNN and The New York Times — calling their coverage of her "completely ...
All the candidates oppose President Trump's recent troop withdrawal. But the two military veterans on the stage revealed a lack of consensus over how the U.S. ...
Tulsi Gabbard is never afraid to break from the pack. And her early answers at the CNN Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday night was no exception ...
This debate's “one to watch” was supposed to be Hawaii Representative Tulsi Gabbard, who returned to the (side of the) stage after being left out in September ...
Seven members of an extended British family who made an unauthorized crossing into the United States from Canada are being held in federal custody at a ...
We have been treated like criminals here, stripped of our rights, and lied to,” Eileen Connors wrote in a sworn statement. “It is undoubtedly the worst experience ...
A British family detained in the US after crossing the border from Canada expect to be released and sent back to the UK by Wednesday. David Connors, 30, and ...
Eileen and David Connors say they accidentally crossed the U.S.-Canada border while vacationing. The couple and their 3-month-old son have been in a ...
IT'S BECOMING evident that President Trump's corruption in Ukraine was not limited to his pressure for politicized investigations that could help his reelection ...
The news that two associates of Rudy Giuliani have been charged with funneling illegal campaign contributions from Ukraine to the United States is inevitably ...
'America's mayor' is now a punchline, fundraising tool and political shield for Joe Biden. With Rudy Giuliani emerging as the face of Donald Trump's star-crossed ...
Abandoned by the United States and facing a deepening Turkish military offensive, Kurdish forces near the northern Syrian border have struck a deal with the ...
Bashar al-Assad's forces swept into cities across northeast Syria for the first time in seven years on Monday after the West's former Kurdish allies agreed to a ...
AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Syrian government troops moved into a series of towns and villages in northern Syria Monday, setting up a potential clash with ...
In the days just before Turkey's military incursion into Syria, for which the stated aim includes purging a Kurdish militia that has been allied with the United States ...
Michael McKinley is set to testify as part of the House Democrats' impeachment probe -- less than a week after resigning as a senior adviser to Secretary of State ...
Michael McKinley, a former top aide to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is reportedly set to testify Wednesday as part of House Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
Federal prosecutors in New York announced charges Tuesday against a Turkish state bank accused of a multibillion-dollar scheme to violate United States ...
Federal prosecutors in New York charged Turkish bank Halkbank Tuesday with participating in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade U.S. sanctions against Iran.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Turkish bank with ties to a former client of President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani in connection with an alleged ...
(MORELIA, Mexico) — State police expected the worst when they ventured into the wild township of Aguililla to serve a single warrant. Commanders sent 42 ...
Families of 13 Mexican police officers killed in an apparent cartel ambush have gathered at a funeral home in Michoacan state, many of them angry at the ...
Authorities say at least 14 police officers were ambushed and killed Monday near the western coast of Mexico, the latest in a series of brazen attacks.
The massacre of six people in a public housing complex in San Juan, Puerto Rico, left a neighborhood in shock and the island's governor calling for an ...
SAN JUAN, P.R. — The terrifying storm of gunfire broke out in the dark on Monday, piercing the early evening calm at a public housing complex near the ...
Along with hurricanes, a wounded economy and political turmoil, Puerto Rico is facing a new threat: a crime wave. Governor Wanda Vázquez called for an ...
For a nation that does pageantry better than any other, it was no surprise to see yesterday's Queen's Speech pulling out all the stops. For all the bizarre political ...
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador defended his security strategy on Tuesday and blamed past administrations for chronic violence, a day after ...
More than a dozen cops were shot dead in Mexico during an ambush by suspected drug cartel hitmen — marking one of the bloodiest attacks on the country's ...
Pres. Andrés Manuel López Obrador defended his security strategy and shift away from an army-led approach to battling crime after over a dozen police officers ...
Typhoon Hagibis proved to be extraordinarily devastating for northern Japan when it struck this weekend, unleashing more than three feet of rain in just 24 hours ...
A large typhoon swept through Japan over the weekend, killing nearly 60 people and flooding the streets and residential areas with “swamp”-like conditions, ...
Hundreds of thousands of rescuers have been deployed as part of relief efforts in Japan after the region was battered on Saturday by Typhoon Hagibis, ...
Police and protesters clashed on Monday in Barcelona after Spain's high court sentenced nine leaders for their involvement in an independence referendum two ...
China is supposed to be savvy. So why is it throwing a fit about a tweet, an app, and a gamer in a mask in the absence of any real threat? Zeynep Tufekci.
Good morning. We're looking ahead to Carrie Lam's expected annual policy address in Hong Kong and the biggest Democratic primary debate in the U.S. We're ...
This year's Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three scholars who revolutionized the effort to end global poverty: Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of MIT ...
Sourav Ganguly termed Abhijit Banerjee's achievement as "much bigger" and said that he was reading about his economic theory which earned him the coveted ...
The long history of bias, discrimination and underestimation of women in the field of economics is why Esther Duflo's prize is a such a great step forward.
This year's economics Nobel prize went to three worthy economists — Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and ...
Kurdish fighters in northern Syria have served as a crucial U.S. ally in the fight against the Islamic State. But U.S. troops stepped aside last week as Turkey ...
U.S. troops were preparing to withdraw from northern Syria Sunday as Turkish forces continued their advance. There were reports of alleged Turkish atrocities ...
U.S. troops in Syria “came under artillery fire from Turkish positions” on Friday, the Pentagon announced. In a statement, Navy Capt. Brook DeWalt said that ...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday giving the Treasury Department "very significant new sanctions authorities" against Turkey, but the US ...
Two rockets struck an Iranian tanker traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region ...
The demonstrations created the Chinese territory's worst political crisis in years, ensnaring Beijing, Washington and foreign businesses, including the N.B.A. ...
When Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam finally withdrew the controversial extradition bill on Sept. 4, after three months of regular mass protests, few ...
Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kongers have been protesting for more than four months and demonstrations are becoming more violent and disruptive. The city's ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping cautioned over the weekend that any effort to split with China will result in "bodies smashed and bones ground to powder" amid ...
Tens of thousands of protesters waving U.S. flags gathered in downtown Hong Kong late Monday to call for U.S. lawmakers to pass legislation that would ...
DONALD TRUMP threatened to release thousands Isis prisoners at Europe's borders if their original countries did not take them back as the US President ...
The U.S.-China trade war will cut 2019 global growth to its slowest pace since the 2008-2009 financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund warned on ...
The global economy is growing at its slowest pace since the financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. The fund said world growth would hit ...
Each year, the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) gathers at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. This year, the IMF will meet under the leadership ...
The worst of Typhoon Hagibis may have passed Japan, but the storm is fueling a new wave of outrage after an evacuation center turned away two homeless ...
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned on Tuesday of a "prolonged" impact from one of the most destructive typhoons in decades to hit the country, with a ...
The death toll from Typhoon Hagibis has risen to 72 in Japan, as thousands of residents remain without power or water and evening temperatures hover around ...
A disaster shelter which turned away homeless people as a devastating typhoon approached has been widely criticised in Japan, where the death toll from the ...
A pair of vagrants seeking shelter from Japan's killer typhoon were denied entry to a Tokyo evacuation facility — because they did not have permanent ...
In footage taken at the royal palace in Riyadh, Putin strokes the bird's plumage while talking to King Salman before the gyrfalcon excretes onto the royal's plush ...
The visit by President Vladimir Putin of Russia to Saudi Arabia is a sign of growing cooperation between Moscow and a traditional ally of the United States--and ...
SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Militants are terrorizing civilians in the fractious Kashmir Valley, hoping to bring life there to a halt in protest of India's dramatic ...
Residents on fixed cellphone contracts in India-controlled Kashmir were surprised to discover they had been billed for the two-month, government-imposed ...
Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have arrested 13 women for holding an anti-India protest and two suspected militants shot and killed a truck driver near an ...
When the mobile phone started to ring, after 71 days of silence, the crowd erupted into a loud cheer. After imposing a complete communications blackout two ...
Several women protesters, including the daughter and the sister of former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, were detained in Srinagar this ...
A truce in a U.S.-Chinese tariff war and Beijing's promises to open more of its state-dominated economy are raising hopes among investors. But Beijing has ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian share markets firmed on Monday as signs of progress in the Sino-U.S. trade standoff whetted risk appetites, though investors ...
China's exports to the U.S. shrank more than one-fifth last month, hit by heavier tariffs, underscoring the urgency for Beijing to resolve trade friction with ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed prepared on Tuesday to reject a constitutional challenge to the federal response to the worst debt crisis in Puerto ...
The more they heard, the more hesitant Supreme Court justices seemed to be Tuesday about disrupting the work of the board Congress put in place to fix Puerto ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared likely to uphold the special board that Congress created to resolve Puerto Rico's debt crisis, despite claims from ...
A British pedophile who sexually abused nearly 200 Malaysian babies and children before he was given 22 life sentences three years ago was killed in prison ...
A British man sentenced to 22 life sentences -- and who authorities say may have raped or abused up to 200 Malaysian children -- was reportedly stabbed to ...
A man digging a grave in northern India found a newborn girl buried alive, police have said, in the latest case to shine a spotlight on female infanticide in the ...
President Lenín Moreno and indigenous protest leaders have reached an accord to end the violent protests that left seven people dead and brought this South ...
Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno signed on Monday an official decree, repealing his own fuel subsidy cut that sparked days of violent, indigenous-led protests, ...
