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Led summit opens in Bahrain to address 'Iran threat'

The maritime workshop being held in Manama stems from a Middle East conference held in Warsaw in February that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the ...

Trump drops plan to host G7 summit at his resort

Mulvaney said Sunday that Trump was "honestly surprised at the level of pushback" on his choice of Doral. Trump, while initially blocking the aid to Ukrain...

India set to eclipse U.S. with global economic growth share by 2024

America's share of global growth is expected to slip from 13.8 per cent to 9.2 per cent by 2024, while India's share is projected to rise to 15.5 per cent and...

Benjamin Netanyahu hands opportunity to rival Gantz after failing to form government

Gantz also has no clear path to a majority, and should he come up short, it would nearly certainly lead to another general election, the third since April. Mr G...

Russian hackers used Iranian cover to attack UK

National Security Agency (NSA), GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre said it wanted to raise industry awareness about the activity and make attacks more hard f...

Tornado Touches Down in Dallas

An spokesperson for Texas power company Oncor told Newsweek that nearly 150,000 people were left without power, with 100,000 of those in the Dallas area and...

Trump Weighs Leaving Small Number of Troops in Syria

Trump earlier this month ordered the bulk of the approximately 1,000 USA troops in Syria to withdraw after officials said Turkish President Recep Tayyip ...

Thailand's King Strips His Consort of Royal Titles for 'Misbehavior and Disloyalty'

In late August, a series of photos of Ms Sineenat, bestowed with the rank of Major-General, and the king in various places and outfits were published by the pal...

Lebanon announces sweeping economic reforms after days of protests

After days of nationwide protests, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri and his government partners on Sunday agreed on a package of reforms to ease an econom...

‘Abominable’ to skip Malaysia theaters over disputed sea map

FOLLOWING VIETNAM's lead in banning DreamWork's animated feature Abominable over a scene showing China's controversial "nine-dash line map", the Philippines...

International Monetary Fund chief pushes for 'peer pressure' to follow, fix global trade rules

She said Washington and Beijing both openly commented on the issue and there has been progress in discussions. "In the end, the biggest loser is going to be t...

Hillary Clinton posts parody Kennedy letter mocking Trump

Get your missiles out of Cuba. Last week, a letter Donald Trump sent to the Turkish president was released by reporters; it made the rounds on social media ...

WikiLeaks founder Assange denied delay to extradition hearing by London judge

Assange, dressed in a navy suit and light blue jumper, raised his fist to supporters in the public gallery. In a statement before the hearing, Massimo Moratti...

Mum is convinced her son's cot is haunted with 'baby ghost'

Maritza Cibuls, 32, from Illinois, USA, spotted the infant ghoul's face staring straight at her through her 18-month-old son's baby monitor after she put him to...

Lebanon braced for massive anti-government protests

In Lebanon the president is a Maronite Christian, the parliament speaker a Shiite while the prime minister is a Sunni. A new cabinet would also likely see Ira...

Drugs firms reach $260m opioid settlement

It had been closely watched as the first of thousands of similar cases to go forward. The settlement ends only the suits brought by the OH counties of Cuyahog...

Man sprays bear repellent during California Trump protest

A video posted online shows a man wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat circling the crowd and then unleashing a torrent of spray from a canister. The man ...

USA troops cross into Iraq from Syria

Scenes broadcast by the Kurdish ANHA news agency show potatoes, tomatoes and other rubbish raining down on the hoods and windows of vehicles moving through Qami...

Mick Mulvaney missteps draw scrutiny from Trump allies

Trump has faced unprecedented GOP opposition to his decision to withdraw USA troops from northern Syria, including blunt criticism from the usually loyal Senate...

Indonesia's losing presidential candidate to join Cabinet

At that early stage, everything was done manually - employees called motorbike drivers one by one until someone accepted an order - and Mr Makarim had to work a...

Jacob Rees-Mogg booed as he leaves parliament after Brexit blow

Britain's opposition Labour Party said on Sunday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was behaving in a childish way by sending two letters to the European Uni...

Abortion to become legal in the North from midnight

Regarding same-sex marriage, opinion has also changed but attempts to legalising it have been blocked by the socially conservative Democratic Unionist Party (DU...

Canada election: Canadians head to the polls in tight race

The 40-day campaign, described by Trudeau as "one of the dirtiest, nastiest" in Canadian history, has been "a desert from a public-policy point of view", accord...

GOP Rep. Who Wouldn't Rule Out Impeaching Trump Announces Retirement

His spokesman subsequently confirmed the decision, reports The Washington Post . "It's just like what we raise our kids and tell our employees: You have to do ...

Researchers find second warship from WWII Battle of Midway

The find comes on the heels of the discovery of another carrier, the Kaga, last week. The vessel is owned by Vulcan Inc, a company created by the late Microsoft...

Hotel collapse: Explosions demolish cranes

Officials had originally planned to topple the cranes Friday, then pushed back the demolition to Saturday and then to Sunday when officials said the cranes were...

Thousands flood Lebanon’s streets in third day of anti-government protests

Lebanese anti-government protesters hold placards during a demonstration in Martyrs' Square, downtown Beirut , Lebanon. "It is shameful that we had to move a...

Hillary Mocks Trump's Letter to Erdogan

Kennedy to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev dated 16 October 1962 in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis. She shared the spoof letter, that first appeared on...

President leaves for Japan to attend the Enthronement ceremony of Japanese Emperor

The ceremony in Tokyo is being attended by heads of state and government, rulers, and senior officials from around 170 countries. The president was undertakin...

To prevent copying, college comes up with odd idea!

According to the India Today , the school has had issues with students cheating in the past, despite continued warnings from faculty. This was apparently the r...