BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war ...

Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials ...

Syrian government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition areas of the southwest on Friday for the first time in a year, a war monitor and rebel officials ...

REUTERS/Honduran Presidential House Handout Women and their children walk on the tarmac at the Ramon Villeda international airport in San Pedro Sula, ...

The violence in the region is driven by a mix of crime groups and drug cartels.

The government of El Salvador has said it won't take deportees the U.S. is trying to return to their home country until it is satisfied that they have been reunited ...

The number of families entering the U.S. illegally at the southwest border jumped six-fold in May to 9485 compared with the same month in 2017. Since October ...

The University of Exeter apologized after its career services center sent an email to staff and students that included a quote from Nazi general Erwin Rommel on ...

An emotional temporary reunion of families separated by the war between South and North Korea will take place next month following recent diplomatic ...

Seoul (CNN) North and South Korea agreed on Friday to allow families who were separated during the Korean War to meet in August -- the first such reunions ...

A few of the thousands of families split by the Korean war will have another chance to see loved ones.

Officials from North and South Korea have agreed to arrange reunions for families separated by the Korean War from August 20 to August 26, South Korea's ...

Even as growth ramps up to what could be the fastest rate since before the financial crisis, economists are worried that a trade war could tip the U.S. into a ...

President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to hit cars from the European Union with a 20% tariff. Such a move would be a massive escalation of Trump's ...

U.S. President Donald Trump rode to power declaring that China had twisted the world trading system out of shape -- and plenty of people around the world ...

I respectfully think that Politico writers Adam Behsudi and Doug Palmer are wrong in their warning that a Chinese boycott of U.S. goods and services could win a ...

Though the Trump administration outwardly is maintaining that it is continuing its "zero-tolerance" border policy, email traffic obtained by CNN shows that the ...

However, a Justice Department official claims the Trump administration's zero-tolerance policy has not changed.

Parents entering the United States illegally with their children will no longer face criminal charges, according to a report by the Washington Post.

Confusion broke out Thursday after a Washington Post report said the Trump administration was suspending prosecutions for migrant parents caught illegally ...

A United Nations report condemning entrenched poverty in the United States is a “misleading and politically motivated” document about “the wealthiest and ...

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said it was “patently ridiculous” for the international organization to examine the realities of extreme poverty ...

Nikki Haley's decision to leave the UN Human Rights Council has nothing to do with Trump's family separation policies at the border.

This week, the Trump administration walked away from the United Nations Human Rights Council. The White House cited the slow pace of institutional reform, ...

MILAN -- Italy's populist, anti-migrant interior minister said Friday that Malta should allow a Dutch-flagged rescue ship carrying hundreds of migrants rescued ...

Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said that whether a united European Union “still exists or not” will be decided within a year, adding he is aware his stand on ...

Italy's minister of the interior is questioning whether I should have police protection. I'm just one of his long list of enemies, says Roberto Saviano, author of ...

ITALY has branded neighbouring country Malta as 'inhumane' for turning away the ship Mission LifeLine, carrying more than 200 migrants, despite Rome ...

Israeli authorities have indicted Sara Netanyahu, the wife of embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for fraud in a sordid case that has transfixed ...

The wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was charged with fraud and breach of trust Thursday over the alleged misuse of state funds at the ...

A long-forgotten species of ape has been found buried in a 2,300-year-old tomb. It's a type of gibbon, which scientists named Junzi imperialis. Gibbons are the ...

Excavations in an ancient Chinese tomb discovered an unknown species of gibbon.

A gibbon skull recovered from an ancient tomb in China was possibly driven to extinction in the last two millennia and researchers told reporters at Science “it ...

The discovery of a prehistoric pet gibbon suggests humans pushed apes to extinction far back in history.

If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, rejoice! The summer season officially kicks off on Thursday, thanks to the summer solstice.

At exactly 6:07 a.m. EDT Thursday, the noonday sun's daily march northward will suddenly halt and reverse direction, an astronomical phenomenon traceable to ...

June 21 is the summer solstice, the official start of summer. To explain the intricacies of that, The Conversation spoke with astronomer Stephen Schneider of the ...

Madrid (CNN) More protests are planned Friday in Spain over a court's decision to grant bail to five men who were controversially convicted of sexual abuse of a ...

Five men whose conviction for sexual assault, but not rape, caused outrage, are released on bail.

The ruling by a Spanish regional court, in a case that has set off public outcry for two years, prompted protests in several cities in Spain.

Five men convicted of sexually assaulting a young woman at the Pamplona bull running festival in 2016 were released on bail on Friday, re-igniting outrage over ...

Security forces in Venezuela have carried out hundreds of unjustified killings without any apparent consequences, the United Nations has said in a new report, ...

Venezuelan security forces suspected of killing hundreds of demonstrators and alleged criminals enjoy immunity from prosecution, indicating that the rule of law ...

Government security forces in Venezuela carry out unjustified killings without any apparent consequences as the rule of law in the country quickly vanishes, ...

About 125 people died in anti-government protests last year in Venezuela, where the UN says extrajudicial killings of demonstrators and criminal suspects are ...

Group says it will call off assaults in order to support the agenda of new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

Ethiopian opposition group Ginbot 7 announced on Friday it would cease armed attacks in the country following reforms announced by the new government.

Senate investigators are demanding Roger Stone produce documents related to a meeting he had with a Russian citizen offering dirt on Hillary Clinton during in ...

Trump ally Roger Stone believes FBI agent Peter Strzok set up his meeting with a Russian national offering political dirt on Hillary Clinton in exchange for $2 ...

Donald Trump Jr., the president's eldest son and chief defender, reportedly doesn't think he did anything wrong by meeting with a Russian lawyer offering dirt on ...

Trump associate Roger Stone defended his failure to mention to the FBI a meeting he had with a man offering valuable information for President Trump's ...

The country's hardline interior minister keeps stoking uproar with his inflammatory rhetoric—and it only makes him more popular.

Italy's firebrand interior minister has threatene,d to pull a police guard off Roberto Saviano, the writer of a blockbuster book exposing the Camorra mafia.

Matteo Salvini, Italy's far-right interior minister, has threatened to remove the police protection of one of the country's most famous writers, Roberto Saviano, who ...

Trump will make a working visit to the U.K. on July 13, but it will not be a state visit with the accompanying pomp and ceremony. Britain and the U.S. have a ...

Donald Trump is poised to make a second trip to the UK immediately after Brexit, a recording reveals – this time with the pomp and ceremony of a full state visit.

Donald Trump's ambassador to Britain Robert 'Woody' Johnson (pictured with his wife Suzanne Ircha) has urged the country to be upbeat about Brexit.

Plans to mark the 70th anniversary of the National Health *Service* had been going quite well until this week.

A YOUNG Conservative has urged the UK to trust the Government in delivering Brexit as he took a swipe at Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.

A Japanese city official has been docked half a day's pay for repeatedly leaving his desk for a few minutes, sparking a heated debate on social media over the ...

A Japanese city official has been reprimanded and fined for repeatedly leaving his desk about three minutes before the official lunch break began to buy lunch.

A 64-year-old man in Kobe left for his lunch break at 11:57 a.m. multiple times because he wanted a 'change of pace,' and was punished for it. Japan has a toxic ...

A Japanese worker caught taking lunch three minutes early on 26 occasions over a seven-month period was punished by his bosses who then held a televised ...

Five women were performing a street play about human trafficking in India when gunmen seized them.

NEW DELHI -- Five female activists working for an organization backed by a Christian missionary group were gang-raped at gunpoint in the eastern Indian state ...

FIVE women working for a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in India's Jharkhand state were abducted and gang raped, local police said.

BELFAST, June 22, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – A Redemptorist priest told thousands of pilgrims at an annual celebration of faith in Northern Ireland that Catholic ...

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On the plane back from Geneva yesterday, Pope Francis told reporters it is up to “particular” bishops of a local diocese rather than episcopal conferences to ...

VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis will be making several significant changes in the Vatican in the next few weeks and months to bring in *fresh* faces with new ideas ...

Perhaps only in France would a billionaire and one of the nation's most powerful bankers both publicly chastise the president for neglecting ordinary people.

French businessman Francois Pinault announces plans for Paris art museum, at the Town hall in France's third richest man, François Pinault, has suggested that ...

Why isn't a bigger deal being made about the scandals involving President Donald Trump's secretary of commerce, investor Wilbur Ross? Although Forbes ...

Friday marks 70 years since the MV Empire Windrush docked here with nearly 500 people from Caribbean nations ready to help rebuild Britain after the ravages ...

Editorial: Celebrations to mark the ship's arrival won't mend the lives ruined by Theresa May's cruel immigration policy.

Guests have started arriving at the *service* in central London marking the moment hundreds of Caribbean migrants departed the Empire Windrush ship in Tilbury ...

Plans for a private swimming pool at the French president's summer retreat land him in hot water.

Emmanuel Macron has come under fire for dressing down a teenager who called him 'Manu' after it emerged the boy now 'appears depressed' and is hiding at ...

EMMANUEL Macron belittled a child publicly for a second time after sharing a video of him scolding an outspoken school pupil.

Emmanuel Macron has ordered a swimming pool to be built in the grounds of the French president's Riviera retreat to avoid prying paparazzi, sparking ...

Hillary Clinton warned Friday that Russian interference in the 2016 election is a part of a “white- white-supremacist and xenophobic movement” headed by ...

According to various cyber-security experts, everything is on the table. And it's already happening.

India raised tariffs on a slew of items in retaliation to U.S. imposing higher levies on some products shipped from the South Asian nation, a move that echoes ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India, the world's biggest buyer of U.S. almonds, raised import duties on the commodity by 20 percent, a government order said, joining ...

India, the world's biggest buyer of US almonds, raised import duties on the nut by 20 percent, a government order said, joining the European Union and China in ...

Hungary's illiberal leader Viktor Orbán is stirring up trouble in the European Union again, and it could have a big impact on the future of German Chancellor ...

Donald Trump is directly intervening in German politics in hopes of helping topple Angela Merkel. But his efforts may backfire thanks to his unpopularity in ...

The French President has won the German Chancellor's backing for a 'real budget with annual revenues and spending' with its own governance structure to ...

Rising expectations that the Pyongyang regime will hand over the remains of some of the American dead from the Korean war have reawakened cautious hope ...