Yellow vest protestors in Paris battled police during violent clashes Saturday--newly enraged at the billions of dollars that have been pledged to rebuild ...
Protesters set fires in eastern Paris as they marched for the 23rd Saturday in a row. They say the efforts to restore the damaged Notre Dame cathedral are ...
Striking ceremonies have been taking place around the world as many Christians marked Good Friday. Jesus died on the cross on Good Friday, the Bible says, ...
A recent assault on a military barracks was the first Congo attack claimed by the terror group. But there were earlier signs of an ISIS franchise in the region.
AL-HOL, Syria — A militant band of women loyal to the Islamic State is terrorizing others who fled the battlefront for this sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, ...
Despite losing it caliphate to US-backed forces last month, ISIS' resurgence continues to gain momentum across Iraq and Syria, a new report said Friday.
"The women and children who have been raised on the mentality of ISIS and terrorism need to be rehabilitated," an official warns. "Otherwise, they will be the ...
The United Nations has urged the international community to take responsibility for the children of their citizens who joined Isis in Syria, as thousands remain ...
CAIRO — The message blared from social media videos, from banners too big to miss, and from the upbeat Election Day songs playing so boisterously on ...
Millions of Egyptians are heading to polls to vote in a constitutional referendum that could keep President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in office until 2030. The mo...
Seven people were killed in an attack on the Afghan ministry of information in Kabul, officials said. An explosion was heard at 11:40 local time (07:10 GMT) and ...
KABUL (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed in an attack on the Afghan communications ministry in central Kabul on Saturday, breaking months of ...
At least seven people were killed during an attack on Afghanistan's Ministry of Communications on Saturday. An explosion hit the centre of Kabul as attackers ...
As a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the East China Sea last month, Chinese vessels shadowed it on the high seas, *service* officials said. It was a ...
Two teenage men have been arrested in the connection to the murder of 29-year-old journalist Lyra McKee. The men—aged 18 and 19—were arrested under ...
Northern Ireland police have arrested two teenagers in connection with the murder of 29-year-old investigative journalist Lyra McKee, authorities said Saturday.
The tragic murder of 29 year-old Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland on Thursday evening shows the ongoing threat posed by dissident Irish Republican terrorists.
Through Lyra McKee, I could see and understand the hopes and dreams of the Ceasefire Generation. Lyra saw journalism for what it fundamentally is: an ...
US authorities have arrested a former US Marine who is allegedly part of a group that raided North Korea's embassy in Madrid, reports say. Christopher Ahn ...
U.S. authorities arrested a former Marine after a February raid on the North Korean embassy in Spain, The Washington Post reported Friday, citing two people ...
A former US Marine who was allegedly involved in a raid of the North Korean embassy in Madrid has been arrested, according to sources familiar with the case.
Marc Lamporello, 37, of Hasbrouck Heights, is charged with attempted arson, reckless endangerment and trespass in New York. He was also arrested Monday ...
Marc Lamparello's story seemed off from the start. It was nearly 8pm on Wednesday when Mr Lamparello, a 37-year-old graduate student and lecturer on ...
A part-time philosophy professor was charged with attempted arson on Thursday after he entered a historic cathedral with gasoline and lighter fluid, investigators ...
Airlines are removing the Boeing 737 MAX from their summer schedules, even as Boeing continues to make progress towards getting its most important jet ...
Congress and outside groups are calling attention to a system that puts private workers into FAA inspection roles -- while they stay on a company payroll.
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said Friday that a joint governmental review of the now grounded Boeing 737 MAX will begin on April 29 and will ...
Government officials from civil aviation authorities in nine countries, as well as members of the three US federal agencies, will investigate how the 737 Max ...
Aviation authorities from eight countries and the European Union (EU) will join several U.S. agencies in reviewing the certification of the Boeing 737 Max ...
Hundreds of activists were arrested in downtown London Saturday as thousands protested urging the British government to act on reducing carbon emissions.
Actress Emma Thompson, 60, flew business class from LA to London to join the protest and accused the Met of wasting taxpayers' money by policing the ...
Extinction Rebellion might be mocked for unrealistic demands. Politicians, however, would be fools to dismiss them, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff.
Gunmen shot dead 13 people at a bar in the city of Minatitlan in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, authorities said on Friday, in one of the worst slayings ...
Thirteen people, including a child, were killed Friday when a group of unidentified gunmen opened fire on a party in the violence-wracked eastern Mexican state ...
Heavy fighting has erupted south of Tripoli after Libya's UN-backed government announced a counter-offensive against insurgent forces. It comes after days of ...
There is anger in the Libyan capital after US President Donald Trump spoke to commander Khalifa Haftar, who is leading an offensive to seize Tripoli. Al Jaze...
Several air strikes and explosions shook the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight, residents said, in an escalation of a two-week offensive by eastern forces on the city ...
"Computer glitch" may have been behind fast-spreading fire that ravaged Notre Dame, cathedral's rector says as crews try to figure out how to stabilize it.
Ukrainians will head to the polls shortly in a run-off election to pick the country's next president. Voters face a stark choice between tycoon Petro Poroshenko, the ...
A young comedian is set to become president in the country's second round of voting Sunday. The 41-year-old television star Volodymyr Zelensky's bid to lead ...
If Ukraine voters elect television star Volodymyr Zelensky president Sunday, that should please the Kremlin — in theory. But it's possible he'll disappoint the ...
A senior North Korean official dismissed President Trump's national security adviser, John Bolton, as “dim-sighted” after he demanded more evidence of ...
Washington (CNN) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo emphasized Friday that he is "still in charge" of the diplomatic team running negotiations with North Korea ...
North Korea has criticized National Security Adviser John Bolton's "nonsense" call for Pyongyang to show that it's serious about giving up its nuclear weapons.
After an extended period of silence since the failure of the U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi, a flurry of activity and statements by North Korea's leadership has ...
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has criticized U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton's “nonsense” call for Pyongyang to show that it's serious about giving ...
At an Easter vigil in St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis on Saturday encouraged people to resist cynicism or pursuing the “glitter of wealth,” and to avoid seeking ...
Pope Francis led a procession of thousands of Catholics through Rome on Good Friday as they reflected on victims of sex trafficking and other exploited peopl...
As he celebrated the Easter Vigil in St. Peter's Basilica for the seventh time since his election as successor to St. Peter, Pope Francis called on Christians ...
Rome: Pope Francis on Friday led the traditional Easter week "Way of the Cross" procession in Rome, which was this year took the theme of modern-day slavery ...
The Thai navy on Saturday boarded the floating cabin of fugitive U.S. bitcoin trader Chad Elwartowski and his Thai girlfriend, both prominent members of the ...
Thailand's navy has boarded and seized the floating home of a fugitive US bitcoin trader and his Thai girlfriend, both prominent members of the “seasteading” ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - The Thai navy on Saturday boarded the floating cabin of a fugitive U.S. citizen and his Thai girlfriend, both prominent members of the ...
An American bitcoin trader and his girlfriend could face the death penalty after they were accused of threatening Thailand's sovereignty by building and living in ...
As Christians observe Good Friday they will remember, with devotion and prayer, the death of Jesus on the Cross. It is a day of solemnity in which Christians ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of Christian pilgrims and clergy members marched through the ancient stone alleys of Jerusalem's Old City, retracing Jesus' ...
Peruvian ex-president Alan Garcia wrote in an alleged suicide note read by family members at a wake on Friday that he had killed himself in order to avoid ...
NEW DELHI — The chief justice of India's Supreme Court has been accused of sexually harassing a female assistant, and a special panel of judges called an ...
India's Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi has been accused of sexual harassment by a former Supreme Court employee. The 35-year-old woman has filed an affidavit ...
A former worker at India's Supreme Court has said that Ranjan Gogoi, the country's most powerful judge, sexually harassed her before firing her after she ...
The chief justice of India's supreme court, Ranjan Gogoi, has denied allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances towards a junior court assistant ...
BEIRUT (AP) - Syrian government forces came under separate attacks from Islamic State militants and al-Qaida-linked insurgents in different parts of the country ...
Jihadists have killed more than 60 Syrian regime fighters in 48 hours, a monitor said Saturday, in some of the deadliest attacks on pro-Damascus forces in...
ALGIERS (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to Algeria's streets on Friday to press demands for sweeping democratic change well ...
Kosovo has brought back 110 of its citizens from Syria, mostly mothers and their children but also several jihadist fighters. The group contained 74 children, ...
Dozens of women and children, the relatives of Kosovo jihadists in Syria, and four suspected fighters were repatriated plane on Saturday under heavy security.
Kosovo brought back 110 of its citizens from Syria on Saturday including jihadists who had gone to fight in the country's civil war and 74 children, the ...
Kosovo has brought back 110 of its citizens from Syria on Saturday, including jihadists who had gone to fight in the country's civil war and 74 children, the ...
The heavily fortified no man's land separating North and South Korea, largely untouched by humans, has become an ecological niche for the region's flora and ...
Jess Roskelley, David Lama and Hansjörg Auer had been attempting a route in Canada's Banff National Park. The park said that all three are "presumed to be ...
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Friday called on supporters to take to the streets on May 1 for what he called "the largest march in the history" of ...
The leaders of Sudan's protest movement say they will name members of a transitional authority on Sunday, to replace the current military junta. Following ...
On Easter, people will gather to pray in the cathedral, situated 600 feet underground in the Andean mining town of Zipaquirá. It was built in the caverns and ...
The U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan expressed disappointment after a planned meeting between the Taliban and a group of Afghan politicians in Qatar ...
Hopes for a breakthrough in a push to end Afghanistan's gruelling conflict suffered a major setback Friday after a key summit between the Taliban and Afghan ...
DOHA, Qatar — Organizers canceled talks between Afghan leaders and Taliban insurgents that were scheduled to begin Friday, dealing a major setback to a ...
Now that Benjamin Netanyahu is set to serve a fifth term as Israel's prime minister, he could extend Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank-- something ...
Center left or far right, the outcome of the Israeli elections largely did not matter to Palestinians. How could this be? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won ...
Hundreds of Palestinian Christians in Gaza are still anxiously waiting on Saturday to hear whether Israel would grant them exit permits in time to join Easter ...
U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East peace plan will not involve giving land from Egypt's Sinai peninsula to the Palestinians, an American envoy said on ...
An influential U.S. congressman has warned the European Union that any Brexit arrangement that undermines Northern Ireland's 1998 peace agreement could ...
After two decades away, Rory Carroll reflects on going back to Dublin to cover everything from Brexit and border issues to abortion law and Game of Thrones.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission chief, has warned that the UK would be "100 per cent" responsible if its decision to leave the EU caused ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - There is a still a concern that Britain may leave the European Union without a deal to smooth the way, the bloc's chief executive said on ...
THE US has warned the European Union it will oppose any Brexit deal that undermines the Northern Ireland 1997 peace agreement that could endanger a ...
Nearly every candidate has offered support for the federal legalization of recreational marijuana and many have called to expunge federal charges for those ...
For most of my life, marijuana has been considered a taboo topic that wasn't discussed openly and was swept under the rug by federal, state, and local officials.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said Friday that the House will vote later this spring on legislation allowing banks to work with marijuana businesses in certain ...
These are high times for the American cannabis industry. Recreational marijuana is now legalized in 10 states and the District of Columbia, and myriad products ...
Newly released video footage shows Julian Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks, behaving erratically during his stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Surely no one is feeling any emotion as intensely as the happiness currently experienced by the staff, and especially the cleaners, at the Ecuador embassy.
A Swedish programmer friendly with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says hes confident the allegations that have him jailed in Ecuador lack substance and ...
Several thousand people have turned up at an anti-government protest in Belgrade a day after Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic held a mass rally in ...
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will visit Japan at the end of May to meet the nation's new emperor. Crown Prince Naruhito will take the throne...
President Trump will host Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House later this month and visit Japan at the end of May, the White House ...
Turkish authorities have detained two men suspected of illegally gathering intelligence on behalf of the United Arab Emirates and are investigating them for a ...
Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed in the consulate on Oct. 2 by a team of ...
A top member of Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party will tell her in the coming week that she must step down by the end of June or her lawmakers ...
Traditionally, Conservative councillors across Britain have been united in their sense of duty, spending long evenings and weekends on doorsteps or stuffing ...
A top member of Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party will tell her in the coming week that she must step down by the end of June or her lawmakers ...
WASHINGTON — At 9:34 on the November morning after Donald J. Trump was elected president in 2016, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia's sovereign wealth ...
EMMANUEL Macron is deploying tanks and hundreds of troops to Estonia to boost NATO's defences along the Russian border in a move which is certain to ...
Shortly after news emerged that Hillary Clinton had phoned Donald Trump to concede the presidential election early on November 9, 2016, the head of Russia's ...
Ever since Richard M. Nixon boarded the helicopter in August 1974, Americans passionate about politics have considered scandal a viable alternative to ...
The Mueller report details an effort by a relative of former Trump Organization lawyer Jason Greenblatt to arrange a meeting about a Trump-Putin summit with a ...
U.S. intelligence has accused Huawei Technologies of being funded by Chinese state security, The Times said on Saturday, adding to the list of allegations ...
According to reports on Saturday, the CIA has shared evidence with agencies across the Five Eyes that Huawei has received funding from China's military and ...
(Reuters) - U.S. intelligence has accused Huawei Technologies of being funded by Chinese state security, The Times said on Saturday, adding to the list of ...
Chinese tech giant Huawei received funding from the country's state security services, US intelligence services believe, according to a report from The Times ...
Protesters in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka demand justice for 18-year-old woman who died after being set on fire for refusing to drop harassment charges.
Dozens of protesters took to the streets in Bangladesh's capital to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who died after being set on fire for refusing to drop ...
Nusrat Jahan Femi, 18, was doused in petrol before being set alight on the roof of an exam hall in Dhaka, Bangladesh. By Patrick Knox. 19th April 2019, 1:31 pm.
(DHAKA, Bangladesh) — Dozens of protesters gathered in Bangladesh's capital on Friday to demand justice for an 18-year-old woman who died after being set ...
The release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report revealed that a meeting between former Navy SEAL Erik Prince and a Russian financier with ties to the ...
Nine days before Donald Trump took the oath of office, Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of the private military contractor Blackwater and a Trump ally, met in ...
Erik Prince, the founder of the controversial private security firm Blackwater, makes a number of appearances in special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
One of the most powerful leaders in the United Arab Emirates has found himself entangled in special counsel Robert Mueller's report on U.S. President Donald ...
A Pentagon inspector general report examining whether acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan violated his ethics agreement is expected to be made ...
President Trump is expected to formally nominate Patrick M. Shanahan to be his permanent defense secretary as soon as next week, two administration officials ...
On Thursday, North Korea continued to play games, announcing that it had tested a “new-type tactical guided weapon." On Friday, Acting Defense Secretary ...
A relentless series of migrant caravans in recent months has taxed local resources and the patience of residents who are turning their ire on the president.
Costly phone calls with relatives and friends in the United States to work out the route or find the best smuggler are a thing of the past for many Central ...
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