A flash mob of more than 1,000 protesters descended on central Hong Kong on Tuesday in a scene authorities said was bringing the Chinese-ruled city to the ...
The regular weekend street protests in Hong Kong have spilled over into pitch battles in the middle of the working day in the city's busy financial district, ...
Shooting one unarmed protester, repeatedly drawing their firearms on others, and attacking protesters around the city, Hong Kong police on Monday made ...
Bolivia's socialist ex-president Evo Morales released a photo late Monday that showed how the ousted leader spent the night after his dramatic fall at an ...
The forced ouster of an elected leader is by definition a setback to democracy, and so a moment of risk. But when a leader resorts to brazenly abusing the power ...
BOLIVIA WAS wracked by violence and in danger of slipping into anarchy on Monday. While both military leaders and civilian agitators were culpable, there ...
Israel has carried out *fresh* strikes on targets in Gaza as militants there stepped up rocket attacks following the killing of one of its leaders. Israel says air and ...
Militants in Gaza sent a barrage of at least 50 rockets over the border into Tel Aviv early Tuesday, vowing further revenge after the Israeli military carried out a ...
The former Trump campaign official testified in Roger Stone's trial Tuesday that the campaign called the July 2016 announcement the DNC was hacked a “a gift.”
Kabul, Afghanistan — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday announced that his government has released three prominent Taliban figures in an effort to ...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says his government has released three Taliban figures in effort to have the insurgents free an American and an Australian ...
Two American University of Afghanistan professors, including an American, will be released in exchange for three Taliban members, Afghanistan's president ...
The Taliban has agreed to free US citizen Kevin King, 63, and Australian Timothy Weeks, 50, in return for commanders Anas Haqqani, Haji Maali Khan and ...
Iran's Lake Urmia has shriveled because of water mismanagement. Photographer Maximilian Mann traveled to northwest Iran to document life in the region.
Labour is reportedly suffering a second cyber-attack after saying it successfully thwarted one on Monday. The party says it has "ongoing security processes in ...
The old cliche holds that a week is a long time in politics. In political betting a day or two can seem like an eternity. The last time I wrote one of these columns, the ...
Today the Labour Party was the victim of a “large and sophisticated cyber attack”. It shouldn't come as a surprise, however. After the hack of the US Democratic ...
U.S. military officials watched live drone feeds last month that appeared to show Turkish-backed Arab gunmen targeting civilians during their assault on Kurdish ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday issued a chilling threat to Europe over looming sanctions over Ankara's unauthorized drilling in the ...
A US citizen suspected of being an Islamic State militant is stranded on the border between Greece and Turkey, after Turkey expelled him. The alleged militant ...
A memo circulated by House Republicans laid out their strategy for defending President Trump: Say he did nothing wrong and attack bureaucrats questioning ...
The Republican staff on the three panels involved in the impeachment investigation have drafted a detailed memo, circulated to GOP members of all three ...
The public phase of the impeachment inquiry is set to begin this week, and it will shock you to learn that House Republicans are pushing for it to include ...
Former U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has slammed the U.K. government's decision to withhold a report on alleged Russian interference in British ...
It is "inexplicable and shameful" that the UK government has not yet published a report on alleged Russian interference in British politics, Hillary Clinton has told ...
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she's "dumbfounded" the U.K. government has failed to release a report on Russian influence in British ...
Hours after he was forced from power by a popular uprising and military desertions, Bolivia's former socialist president, Evo Morales, was believed to be on the ...
Bad left-wing takes on Latin America are like an injection: you know it's coming but there's still a prick. And so it was last night when, after weeks of unrest and ...
Evo Morales has been attacking Bolivia's democracy for many years. Since coming to office in 2006, the socialist president has concentrated ever more authority ...
Ferocious wildfires were burning at emergency-level intensity across Australia's most populous state and into Sydney's suburbs on Tuesday as authorities ...
Two Australian states are bracing for a day of "catastrophic" risk as firefighters battle over 100 deadly active bushfires that have produced clouds of smoke seen ...
Scorched by days of unrelenting wildfires, parts of southeast Australia are facing "catastrophic fire danger." On Monday, officials declared a state of emergency ...
Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker backed Sen. Lindsey Graham's assertion that the House Democrats' impeachment inquiry will be “dead on ...
President Donald Trump is expected to announce this week that he is putting off a decision on whether to impose tariffs on European Union autos for another six ...
Wall Street is increasingly beginning to worry that President Trump may have oversold the likelihood of a favorable deal with China — a dynamic that Beijing ...
U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to discuss the country's trade policy at the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday, and markets from frothy stocks to ...
President Donald Trump is expected to push back a decision on whether to impose tariffs on European Union automobile imports for another six months, Politico ...
Current and former senior administration officials told Axios that Bolton probably has more details than any impeachment inquiry witness about President ...
Former national security adviser John Bolton has a book deal, The Associated Press has learned. The hawkish Bolton departed in September because of ...
INDIA Prime Minister Narendra Modi is suddenly under pressure after his ruling party decided not to form a government in the country's richest state as New ...
MUMBAI (Reuters) - In a setback, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party has decided not to form the government in the western state of Maharashtra ...
A throwback picture of Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray with the BJP's LK Advani and Atal Bihai Vajpayee was tweeted today by Union Minister Giriraj ...
Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari called upon Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party on Monday evening, refusing Shiv Sena's request for ...
Shiv Sena MP Arvind Sawant on Monday accused the BJP of backing out of its '50:50 formula' promise made to his party, saying allegations of not having any ...
The silver-backed chevrotain — a mysterious animal that's the size of a rabbit but looks like a silver-splashed deer — has been photographed in the wild for the ...
Scientists had thought the silver-backed chevrotain, which had been among a list of 25 "most wanted" lost species compiled by Global Wildlife Conservation ...
The chevrotain dates back to Stone Age but was believed to be extinct having only been spotted once in 100 years. Now scientists have pictured the rare deer in ...
An elusive fanged mouse-deer thought to be "lost to science" for nearly 30 years has been caught on camera in Vietnam, according to an article published ...
President Trump on Monday hailed the legacy of the American armed forces in a Veterans Day speech that came against the backdrop of protests and political ...
In a gut punch to Turkey, America's 67-year NATO ally, a group of United States senators has urged the State Department to expedite a visa for a man who calls ...
Former Vice President Joe Biden said on Monday that he was not ruling out the possibility of the Senate voting to impeach President Trump, arguing that it will ...
In a tactical retreat that could have important ramifications, Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's populist Brexit Party, on Monday promised not to run candidates ...
PROFESSOR PHILIP COWLEY: Putting technicalities to one side for a moment, perhaps the most significant effect of yesterday's announcement is on what ...
Nigel Farage's Brexit Party gave Boris Johnson's Conservative Party a big win on Monday. It should assist the Conservatives in their quest to win a majority in ...
Iran carried out its threat to enrich uranium at its underground Fordow nuclear site, the United Nations atomic agency confirmed on Monday, its most serious ...
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found uranium particles at a site in Iran that had not been declared by the Iranian authorities. A confidential ...
Uranium of a man-made origin has been discovered in Iran at a site that has "not been declared" to inspectors, the United Nation's nuclear watchdog disclosed ...
DUBAI (Reuters) - Europeans have failed to fulfill their own commitments to Iran's 2015 nuclear deal, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on ...
New government data shows the United States detained a staggering 69,550 migrant children in 2019, the Associated Press reports, meaning the U.S., this year, ...
MADRID — The leader of Spain's far-right Vox party, Santiago Abascal, made his name as an opponent of separatism in his home Basque region. But it is the ...
After a second election within a year, Spain's political landscape is now even more fragmented than it was following the previous poll in April, but the far-right ...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Two men and a woman were wounded in a knife attack as they performed on stage in a park in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, marking ...
Poland's prime minister has written a letter to the streaming company Netflix insisting on changes to a documentary about the Nazi death camps. Mateusz ...
A former British Army officer honoured by the Queen for his work with the White Helmets civil defence group in Syria has been found dead in Turkey. The body of ...
A former British army officer who founded the White Helmets humanitarian volunteer group that performed emergency response in Syria was found dead early ...
Two political supporters of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a potentially lucrative oil and gas exploration deal from the Ukrainian government soon ...
Two political backers of Energy Secretary Rick Perry landed a lucrative oil and gas exploration deal from Ukraine's government shortly after Perry reportedly ...
KYIV, Ukraine — Two political supporters of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a potentially lucrative oil and gas exploration deal from the Ukrainian ...
Two political supporters of U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a potentially lucrative oil and gas deal from the Ukrainian government soon after Perry ...
(CNN) A 21-year-old protester was shot in the chest with a live round by a police officer in Hong Kong early Monday morning, as traffic stalled and clashes broke ...
Police fired tear gas and water cannon to break up rallies as activists blocked roads and trashed shopping malls across Hong Kong's New Territories and ...
Hong Kong's police watchdog has neither the authority nor the resources to effectively investigate the ongoing protests in the city, according to the Independent ...
House impeachment investigators released the transcripts of three more depositions on Monday, offering critical new details surrounding President Donald ...
House Democrats released three new transcripts from closed-door depositions Monday as they charge toward the open hearing phase of their impeachment ...
House impeachment investigators on Monday released a transcript of testimony that Laura Cooper, the top Pentagon official overseeing U.S. policy regarding ...
The testimony came from Laura K. Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, who was deposed under oath last month.
Pentagon official Laura Cooper testified to Congress that President Donald Trump ordered that aid to Ukraine be frozen, according to transcripts released ...
A Connecticut man accused of killing a hotel worker while on vacation in Anguilla did not return to the British Carribean territory for a court hearing Monday, ...
Scott Hapgood, a Connecticut UBS banker accused of killing a hotel worker during a family vacation in Anguilla, didn't show up to court Monday on the tiny ...
President Donald Trump has said that "something looks and sounds very wrong" about the manslaughter case in Anguilla against UBS trader Scott Hapgood of ...
Scott Hapgood, 46, was due in court in Anguilla on Monday morning for the latest hearing in his case. He has been charged with manslaughter for the death of ...
DARIEN, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man charged in the death of a hotel worker in Anguilla has declined to return to the British Caribbean territory for the latest ...
Americans long ago lost interest in the democratic experiment they set in motion more than 15 years ago in Iraq—abandoning the “freedom agenda” that was ...
The UN and US have urged the Iraqi government to stop using violence against protesters, pass electoral reforms and hold early elections. Hundreds of ...
Just six months after sweeping to re-election, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has delivered on two major promises of his Hindu-first agenda, electrifying ...
One of the lead counsel for the Muslim parties in the Ayodhya land dispute case has said the decision on seeking a review of the verdict would likely be taken in ...
Dozens of people in India have been detained on suspicion of publishing inflammatory social media posts and setting off celebratory firecrackers after the ...
Senior Supreme Court judges have praised Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi for the landmark unanimous verdict on the Ayodhya case on Saturday. At a book launch ...
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) Amnah Ali is carefully putting the gray into the body of a spaceship she's painting on a giant mural at the entrance to a tunnel under ...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric on Monday expressed concern that the political elite is not serious about enacting reforms in the face of mass ...
The United States on Sunday urged Iraqi authorities to hold early polls and carry out electoral reforms, and called for an end to the violence against protesters ...
Iraqi security and pro-Iranian paramilitary forces are shooting into crowds of protesters in a bid to drive them from the centre of Baghdad and end six weeks of ...
Since the clashes started last month, more than 300 protesters have been killed and 15000 others wounded. Protesters demand overhauls to the country's ...
AN IRANIAN minister has admitted that a massive new oil field will add two billion barrels of crude oil to the country's reserves, contradicting earlier claims by ...
Iran's president is making a new pitch to hard-liners to stay in the country's unraveling 2015 nuclear deal with world powers: The chance to buy and sell ...
Tehran, Iran • Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country's south with over 50 billion barrels of crude, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the ...
Cambodia's self-exiled opposition veteran Sam Rainsy met Malaysian lawmakers on Tuesday in a push to rally support in Southeast Asia against authoritarian ...
Cambodian exiled opposition leader says the European Union's consideration of lifting trade privileges will add momentum to efforts to restore democracy in ...
Fifty-seven nations are suing Myanmar at the International Court of Justice, alleging in a historic lawsuit that the government has conducted genocide against its ...
Gambia filed a lawsuit Monday at the United Nations' top court accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya Muslims, a legal challenge that seeks to build ...
Myanmar faced accusations of genocide in a landmark lawsuit filed by Gambia at the UN's top court on Monday over the Southeast Asian nation's treatment of ...
Oleg Sokolov broke down watching surveillance footage of himself dumping Anastasia Yeshchenko's body parts into a river. St. Petersburg State University ...
Moscow (CNN) A prominent Russian historian appeared in court in St. Petersburg on Monday in a grisly murder case that has grabbed headlines across the ...
A prominent Russian Napoleon scholar has admitted to dismembering his lover and former student after he was found in a canal with a rucksack containing a ...
Oleg Sokolov, a Russian historian known for impersonating Napoleon, was dogged for years by complaints of abuse. But he had never been held to account for ...
