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Turkey demands US replace envoy in spat over Syrian Kurds

The minister said Trump's new USA administration seems more understanding about Turkey's security concerns. The Turkish president was caught on camera obser...

United Nations council to vote on blacklisting more N. Koreans, diplomats say

Security Council blacklist more North Korean individuals and entities over the country's repeated ballistic missile launches. It is reported that the US and...

36 die from smoke in Philippine casino after gunman set fire

Thirty-six bodies were found inside a casino in the Philippine capital on Friday after a masked man burst in with an automatic rifle and set fire to the buildin...

Sheriff: Explosion at Wisconsin plant kills at least 1

A cause of the incident has not yet been released. One person has died, two are missing and more than 10 people were injured with multiple burns. Cambria Vill...

Trump abdicates US leadership on climate change

Global negotiations over climate change have tortuously dragged on for decades - the Paris agreement was supposed to put an end to that. THE FACTS: That's b...

WRAPUP 4-Trump condemns leaks after United Kingdom police stop sharing attack information

Police confirmed Abedi, 22, was behind the attack. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, but British and USA intelligence have not confir...

California, New York, Washington unite to back climate pact

And we will keep challenging ourselves to do even more . And supporters of the agreement in the US, which was painstakingly negotiated under the Obama admini...

Explosions, gunfire reported at Resorts World Manila in Philippines

Gen. Ronald Dela Rosa, the head of the national police, said a security video indicated the motive might have been robbery. There are conflicting reports on w...

White House communications director resigns amid tensions

Trump adminstration's political agenda is being increasingly stalled by an ever growing scandal about secret meetings between senior Trump officials and Russia...

Trump's Speech On Paris Climate Agreement Withdrawal, Annotated

And if we can, that's great. "If we can not, that is fine". The US was one of 195 nations that agreed to the accord in Paris in December 2015, a deal that f...

Trump waives law requiring US move its embassy to Jerusalem

Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Camp) also responded to the signing of the order and said that the transfer of the United States embassy, as well as...

Trump, EPA chief meet ahead of decision on climate change

He also stressed the deal would put the United States "at a competitive disadvantage. because while the Obama administration irresponsibly committed America to ...

Bomb kills 13, hurts 24 in Baghdad; IS claims responsibility

Then, a huge fireball engulfs a building, forcing the cars to scramble to get away. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic...

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to reinstate travel ban

The Supreme Court is nearly certain to step into the case because it nearly always has the final say when a lower court strikes down a federal law or presidenti...

Afghan claim holding Pakistan responsible for Kabul attack 'baseless': FO

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel announced that embassy workers were among hundreds of people injured, and that an Afghan security worker who was guarding...

PM Modi meets Spanish King Felipe VI at The Palace of Zarzuela

Modi said both Germany and India were looking at outcome-oriented momentum in bilateral ties and quantum growth, especially in economic relations. After his...

Tiger Woods Arrested for DUI in Florida

Yet on Wednesday CNN showed an ugly police mug shot of him looking like a dazed thug and a lengthy video tape of his inability to put his feet together or tie h...

Australia unlikely to pick full pace quartet against New Zealand - Steve Smith

Asked if winning the Champions Trophy would bolster the players' cause, Smith said: "I think, if we win, nearly certainly it would be really good for the play...

Kulbhushan Jadhav case: India's bold decision to move ICJ pays off

The ICJ on Thursday stayed the death sentence awarded to Indian national Kulbhsuhan Jadhav by a Pakistani military court, pending a final decision in the case ...

G7 leaders agree to fight protectionism, but USA hedges on Paris Agreement

I will make my final decision on the Paris Accord next week! Trump said he would make a final decision on whether to pull out of the agreement in the next ...

'Time to bring Jared Kushner home. In handcuffs.'

Kelly on Sunday defended Kushner as "a great guy", saying that there was no "big issue here". "I can't imagine a scenario where it's OK for the Federal Bureau...

Woman was dead for two weeks in her office at Eskom

On Monday Afternoon Eskom employee Thembisile Yende was found dead in her locked office in the East Rand power station in Springs after a two-week search, th...

Former Panama dictator Noriega dies at 83

Today the Central American nation has little in common with the bombed-out neighborhoods where Noriega hid during the 1989 invasion, before being famously smoke...

'All roads should lead to universal healthcare,' says new World Health Organization chief

Tedros said he preferred to see global agencies including WHO , the World Bank, GAVI, [the Vaccine Alliance], and [the] Global Fund as part of one "big envelop...

Donald Trump angered by White House leaks

It is possible that those sources don't exist but are made up by fake news writers. Trump tweets that "it is my opinion that numerous leaks coming out of ...

Andrew Scheer cites new hope for Canada in first caucus address

One-term majority governments are rare in Canada. "He won because of the social conservative wing of the party so he will be under pressure to reopen those deba...

Lanka struggles with paucity of clean water; toll rises to 183

Around half million Sri Lankans were dislocated due to flood resulting in rise of death toll to 151. 'I thought it was my end, ' he said as he recalled how th...

Sato seizes moment for history Indy 500 win

Takuma Sato's stunning victory in Sunday's 101st Indianapolis 500 secured him a pay-out of $2.45 million, as revealed by the publication of the prize pool by...

Travel ban judges press Justice Department attorney on Trump's campaign comments

In February, the Ninth Circuit refused to reinstate Trump's first travel ban after it was blocked by a federal district court judge in Washington. "Trump is...

US, Europe Face Divisions Over Iran Policy

In a telephone call, Rouhani told France's new president Emmanuel Macron he was hopeful that Europe would not copy Trump's stance against the Islamic Republic. ...