U.S. president Donald Trump says there's clearly 'deception and lies" about how Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed. And he says he's not satisfied, ...
President Trump has promised "severe punishment" for Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi but he's also said that he doesn't want to put ...
Changes in personnel in the administration and in Congress, along with a possible blue wave in the House, will make Trump's foreign policy more combative ...
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A Taliban insurgent masquerading as a bodyguard reportedly managed to wound a US Army general in a high-profile insider attack this week that killed senior ...
U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley was shot in a Taliban attack that killed two Afghan leaders in Kandahar province last week, the Pentagon has confirmed.
US Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley, who oversees the NATO military advisory mission in southern Afghanistan, was wounded in the Thursday insider attack that ...
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MEXICO CITY – Forecasters say Hurricane Willa has grown rapidly into an “extremely dangerous” near-Category 5 storm in the eastern Pacific, on a path that ...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Forecasters say Hurricane Willa has grown rapidly into an "extremely dangerous" near-Category 5 storm in the eastern Pacific, on a path ...
MEXICO CITY — Two tropical storms are swirling in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico, and one is forecast to become a hurricane and approach the country's west ...
MEXICO CITY — Forecasters say Hurricane Willa has grown rapidly into an "extremely dangerous" near-Category 5 storm in the eastern Pacific, on a path that ...
Mikhail Gorbachev, the former president of the Soviet Union, criticized President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw from an international nuclear disarmament ...
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says US President Trump's plan to withdraw from a key Cold War nuclear weapons treaty is a reversal of efforts to ...
LONDON — Russia is firing back at President Trump's new threat to pull out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty. One Russian official warns – breaking the ...
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Four U.S. tourists and a Costa Rican guide were killed in a weekend rafting accident, authorities said Sunday. Three rafts flipped on ...
JORDAN's King Abdullah II announced that Jordan would be withdrawing from part of a peace deal that it made in 1994 in order to reclaim land that Jordan had ...
Jordan says it plans to end a lease of two areas of land to Israel that was agreed in annexes to the 1994 peace treaty between the two countries. The areas are ...
Jordan has told Israel that it intends to reclaim two tracts of territories leased under a 1994 peace treaty, King Abdullah II has announced, in a move that was ...
JERUSALEM — Jordan's King Abdullah II announced Sunday that he does not plan to renew parts of the country's 24-year-old peace agreement with Israel, ...
At least 18 people are dead and 168 others injured after an express train in Taiwan derailed Sunday, flipping and toppling carrier cars onto their sides, the ...
Beijing, China (CNN) At least 18 people were killed and 178 others injured when a train derailed in Yilan County in northeastern Taiwan, according to an update ...
At least 22 people were killed and 171 others injured on Sunday when one of Taiwan's newer, faster trains derailed on a curve along a popular weekend route, ...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — At least 18 people were killed and 171 others injured after a passenger train derailed Sunday afternoon in northeastern Taiwan on a coastal ...
AT least 22 people have been killed and 171 others injured after a high-speed train came off the tracks in Taiwan today. Photographs from the scene show ...
Although official results are not yet in, exit polls suggested that the governing Law and Justice party had not expanded its appeal to the moderates in Poland's ...
WARSAW—On a chilly Friday evening in Poland's capital, mayoral candidate Patryk Jaki took the stage in Praga Park to make a final pitch to voters. The location ...
The Latest on Poland's local elections (all times local):. 9 p.m.. Exit polls show that pro-European Union opposition candidate has won Warsaw mayoral race in ...
Poland's ruling party won a smaller-than-expected victory in regional elections, drawing a warning from voters unnerved by its unprecedented clash with the ...
POLAND'S ruling eurosceptics are on course to win the country's regional elections according to exit polls ahead of the official count today. The Law and Justice ...
Angry relatives staged a protest on Saturday on the tracks where a speeding train ran into crowds celebrating a Hindu festival, killing around 60 people in ...
AMRITSAR, India (Reuters) - An angry mob threw stones at police on Sunday near the site of a deadly railway accident in north India, demanding immediate ...
More than 60 people were killed Friday evening after a speeding train ran over a crowd watching fireworks during a religious festival in northern India.
AMRITSAR, India (Reuters) - An angry mob threw stones at police on Sunday near the site of a deadly railway accident in north India, demanding immediate ...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has given a national apology to victims of child sexual abuse. Hundreds of people gathered in Canberra on Monday to ...
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday offered a rare national apology, only the second since 2008, to victims of institutional child sexual abuse ...
SYDNEY, Australia — Australia sought to atone for a decades-long epidemic of child sexual abuse on Monday, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison issued an ...
The European Union could derail Italy's big spending plans this week, with speculation mounting that officials in Brussels are set to reject the anti-establishment ...
The Italian government expects the European Commission to decide for the first time ever on Tuesday to ask a member state to revise its draft budget, ...
The European Commission will decide on the "next steps" for assessing Italy's 2019 draft budget after Rome said it planned to stick to its controversial plans.
Oct.22 -- Italian bonds are surging after Moody's cut the country's credit rating. The credit rank was lowered by one step to BAA3, but Moody's set their out...
A 15-year-old schoolboy is facing a prison sentence after pointing a gun at his teacher and shouting 'put your head down', as if he was about to execute her.
A SHOCKING viral video shows a 15-year-old schoolboy pointing a pistol at his teacher's head in a school in Paris. The French teen, who cannot be named for ...
The Ganaropp village in Plateau State, Nigeria, after Fulani herdsman attacked the village, in June. Deadly communal violence has flared repeatedly in central Nigeria in recent years.Stefan Heunis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Ethnic tension and competition for scarce resources have been blamed for deadly attacks in the area. Security has become a key issue ahead of presidential ...
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Communal violence in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna over the last few days has killed 55 people, the local police ...
Hong Kong (CNN) A $20-billion bridge connecting Hong Kong and Macau to the mainland Chinese city of Zhuhai is set to finally open this week, marking the ...
China is set to open the longest sea-crossing bridge ever built, nine years after construction began. The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge connects Hong Kong ...
The much anticipated Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge will open to traffic on Wednesday 9am local time. Construction on the 55-kilometre (34-mile) crossing ...
Israelis within missile range of the Gaza Strip went to bed with trepidation Wednesday night, unsure whether a full-scale war in Gaza was imminent. Israel's...
Jerusalem: srael ordered the country's goods and people border crossings with Gaza to be opened on Sunday, just four days after shuttering them following a ...
US President Donald Trump has no intention of de-escalating trade tensions with China, according to Axios, citing three unnamed sources with knowledge of his ...
As China braces for the full impact of President Donald Trump's trade war, it's seeking to learn from Japan's economic battles with the U.S. during the Reagan ...
America's trade deficit continues to grow, even as President Trump escalates a trade war with China and advances his “America first” vision of global trade.
'We lost $817 billion a year, over the last number of years, in trade,” President Trump said at a summer rally. “In other words, if we didn't trade, we'd save a hell of ...
U.S. President Donald Trump's top economic adviser accused China of refusing to engage on trade issues in a Financial Times interview, while a separate ...
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Three strong earthquakes, of between 6.5 and 6.8 magnitude, have struck off the coast of the Canadian province of British Columbia, according to the United ...
Four earthquakes have hit off the coast of Canada in recent hours, according to the United States Geological Survey. According to the USGS, the four quakes hit ...
Catholic bishops are entering their final week of debate over hot-button issues facing young Catholics, including how the church should welcome gays and ...
The explanation by the Saudi Arabian government that 60-year-old, out-of-shape Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed during a fist fight ...
Reuters first reported on October 6 that Turkish police believed Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi had been killed inside Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul.
The death of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi now looms over Saudi-American relations. Even as Turkish police were still combing a forest outside ...
Like grandfather, like grandson. An old photo of Prince Philip resurfaced over the weekend and it turns out he and Prince Harry probably could have been body ...
An American sailor gave Prince Harry a bear hug and picked him up at the Invictus Games. Afterward, Harry warned not to do it to pregnant Meghan Markle.
A sailor hugged and lifted Prince Harry up into the air to celebrate after competing in an Invictus Games sailing race on Sydney Harbour on October 21. For m...
Prince William is said to be very aware of his status as the future king, while his wife doesn't want to overshadow him. How will they cope with Harry and ...
Saudi Arabia has admitted the death of missing Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, claiming he died in a fistfight involving more ...
This tragedy is made doubly perilous for the implications of a potential Saudi-American rupture on global security as well as the future of the Arab region.
Throughout the last two years, members of the religious right have continued to rationalize their support for Trump despite his violation of Christian principles.
Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is one of the most powerful men in the Middle East. Some say he's a progressive reformer, others see ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo raised the stakes Sunday night as thousands of Central American migrants headed for the United States marched into Mexico, ...
President Trump tweeted on Sunday that border security officials continued their "full efforts ... to stop the onslaught of illegal aliens" attempting to travel to the ...
Near Tapachula, Mexico (CNN) Crowds of migrants resumed their long journey north on Sunday from the Mexican border city of Ciudad Hidalgo, according to ...
A large caravan of Central American migrants started marching toward the Mexican city of Tapachula at dawn Sunday with an escort of federal police as other ...
Chinese state media said U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's comments in South America —where he cautioned against vast China's investments — were ...
(CNN) The United Nations' drug strategy of the past 10 years has been a failure, according to a major report by the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), ...
The UN's 10-year global strategy to eradicate the world's illegal drug market has been “a spectacular failure of policy”, a report by a network of 174 NGOs has ...
Early on a Saturday morning in March 2017, President Donald Trump alleged with no evidence that President Barack Obama had Trump Tower's “wires tapped” ...
A unique 2,000-year-old stone inscription unearthed in Israel has thrilled archaeologists. The find is the first full spelling of “Jerusalem” on a stone inscription, ...
A Swedish student activist who prevented a Turkish Airlines flight from taking off to stop an Afghan man from being deported has been indicted by state ...
Elin Ersson, 21, a Swedish student who live-streamed her dramatic efforts to stop an asylum seeker from being deported to Afghanistan in July was indicted by ...
Tanzanian billionaire Mohammed Dewji who was kidnapped earlier this month was freed on Saturday (Oct. 20) after more than a week missing. Dewji took to his ...
The man described as Africa's youngest billionaire announced on Saturday he is free more than a week after he was abducted from a luxury hotel in Tanzania.
Billionaire Mohammed Dewji, 43, is free more than a week after his abduction from a luxury hotel in Tanzania's commercial capital, while police suggested his ...
About 2000 Central American migrants who crossed a river from Guatemala into Mexico have voted, by way of a show of hands, to re-form their caravan and ...
LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the European Union marched through London on Saturday in the biggest demonstration ...
Hundreds of thousands of supporters of the European Union have marched through London in the biggest demonstration against Brexit in the UK. Supporters of ...
LONDON -- Hundreds of thousands of protesters opposed to Britain's impending exit from the European Union marched through central London on Saturday, ...
A second referendum would be a disgraceful betrayal of democracy and an insult to the 17.4 million people who voted in 2016 – and I write that as somebody ...
President Donald Trump dismissed as ridiculous a question from a female reporter who asked her about his claims that the migrants making their way to the ...
President Trump fielded questions from the press while hosting a roundtable Friday in Phoenix when he was asked by Emily Cochrane (left) of The New York ...
President Trump brushed off questions from a female reporter on Friday by telling her, “Don't be a baby.” During a round-table discussion on immigration in ...
President Trump on Friday brushed off a question about what evidence he has to support the claim that migrants who are reaching the southern border are ...
Kabul, Afghanistan - Polls opened in Afghanistan's long-delayed parliamentary election on Saturday amid security threats from the Taliban armed group who ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The assassination of Afghan leaders in Kandahar province won't lessen U.S. support for the war in Afghanistan or deter local security ...
(CNN) Gen. Scott Miller, the head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, drew his sidearm during an attack that erupted in a Kandahar compound Thursday, ...
HOW DO YOU TRUST THE TALIBAN? The entire U.S. strategy in Afghanistan hinges on the idea that the Taliban can be compelled to negotiate a political ...
President Donald Trump says he will pull the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia. Trump says Moscow has violated ...
Canada can't keep up with demand for newly legal weed. Four days after the country put marijuana legalization into effect nationally, retail shops are nearly sold ...
Canadians were so excited about getting their hands on some legal, recreational marijuana the country is reportedly experience a shortage. Police were called ...
We have long known that smoking weed can make your memory foggy and slow your learning, but now researchers at the University of Alberta have worked out ...
Meghan Markle's half-sister has revealed that the letter she hand-delivered to Kensington Palace begs the Duchess of Sussex to reconcile with their ailing father ...
When Alexander Bodin Saphir's Jewish grandfather was measuring a high-ranking Nazi for a suit in Copenhagen 75 years ago he got an important tip-off - the ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday postponed the forced eviction of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, ...
Israel's prime minister said plans to demolish a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank will go forward, following reports in Israeli media that the e...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has frozen plans to demolish a strategically located Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank that has drawn the ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday it would put on hold for “a number of weeks” its threatened razing of a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank ...
(CNN) The US intelligence community and Silicon Valley may have upped their efforts to prevent interference in November's midterm elections, but that hasn't ...
When the Justice Department unsealed criminal charges detailing a yearslong effort by a Russian troll farm to "sow division and discord in the U.S. political ...
Following the Department of Justice's indictment on Friday of Elena Khusyaynova, for targeting the U.S. midterm elections, President Trump should work with ...
Updated at 5:24 p.m. ET. The U.S. government warned about the continued threat of foreign interference on Friday as it unsealed a new criminal complaint ...
SYDNEY (Reuters) - As the count from a crucial Australian by-election dragged into Sunday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison faced the possibility that his Liberal ...
Dr Kerryn Phelps won 23 of the 35 booths in Saturday's Wentworth by-election as voters in the electorate's beachside and inner-city suburbs deserted the ...
Australia was spared another leadership competition as Scott Morrison, its prime minister, pledged yesterday (SUN) that his embattled government would serve ...
Thousands of refugees and migrants are crossing the border between Mexico and Guatemala. They are part of a so-called "caravan" of people who have been ...
Dharampal Singh was out collecting wood when a troop of monkeys killed him by launching rock missiles at his head and chest in Tikri, Uttar Pradesh, on ...
A 70-year-old man was allegedly stoned to death by monkeys in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat - an incident that has put the police in a fix as his family ...
FILE - In this Thursday Oct. 11, 2018 file photo, Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate, conducts a *service* at the ...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the head of the Orthodox church, moved against Putin by reorganising the church with a power established at the Council of.
Ukrainian Orthodox churches have the right “to govern their religion according to their beliefs, free of outside interference,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said ...
TORONTO — Armed with everything from school attendance records to drones, researchers across Canada are racing to shed light on a bleak part of the ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Brexit minister Dominic Raab wants the European Union to accept assurances that the country will remain tied to the bloc's rules ...
Any agreement to allow an extended Brexit transition should be instead of - not as well as - a "backstop" to avoid the return to border checks in Ireland, the Brexit ...
Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab said the U.K. must not agree to extend the Brexit transition period unless the European Union drops its demand for a fallback to ...
The Brexit Secretary appeared to concede to EU demands that the backstop - the arrangement that will apply to Northern Ireland if there is no full trade deal ...
A Tory ex-minister is trying to put a block on the EU's controversial proposals for a "backstop" to guarantee no hard Irish border after Brexit. Steve Baker has put ...
