Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has heard an alleged audio recording of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi's murder inside the Saudi consulate in ...
A frequent companion of Saudi Arabia's crown prince entered the country's consulate in Istanbul just hours before Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident writer, ...
Saudi intelligence officer and former diplomat Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb played a "pivotal role" in the apparent assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, ...
Long before Jamal Khashoggi disappeared, Saudi Arabia had a history of cracking down on dissidents. Little tolerance exists inside the kingdom for activism ...
Speaking on Thursday morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hinted that he will hold Saudi Arabia to account over its investigation into the murder of ...
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Abdul Raziq, police commander in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, shown in January.Jawed Tanveer / AFP/Getty Images
At least two senior Afghan officials were killed and three Americans were injured when an Afghan security guard opened fire at the provincial governor's ...
One of Afghanistan's most powerful figures was killed and the top U.S. commander in the country escaped unharmed as bodyguards opened fire following a ...
The Afghan army has been confronting its biggest challenge for years - how to defeat the Taliban. Thousands of soldiers and civilians, too, have lost their l...
The Pentagon on Thursday said it has not been given a request to send additional troops to the U.S.-Mexico border after President Trump tweeted earlier in that ...
President Trump acted boldly and decisively Thursday when he threatened to send troops to close our southern border and cut off payments to Mexico and ...
The Trump administration is merging the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem into the new U.S. Embassy there, a move critics say is the latest U.S. slap at the ...
The Trump administration said it would merge its Jerusalem consulate responsible for relations with the Palestinians into its U.S. Embassy there, another ...
The United States announced Thursday it was merging its Consulate General in Jerusalem -- which provided diplomatic representation to the Palestinians ...
President Trump's administration is merging the two major diplomatic facilities in Jerusalem under the auspices of the newly relocated U.S. embassy, Secretary ...
The western media is guilty of "double standards" when it comes to reporting on China's restive northwestern region of Xinjiang, the official China Daily said in ...
The argument between John F. Kelly, left, and John R. Bolton came as the president is grasping to resolve a problem that has bedeviled his administration.Doug Mills/The New York Times
An expletive-laden blowup over border security between the White House chief of staff and the national security adviser was loud enough to be overheard by ...
President Donald Trump's chief of staff and his national security adviser engaged in a profanity-laced argument outside the Oval Office on Thursday, according ...
A heated argument in the West Wing between chief of staff John Kelly and national security adviser John Bolton over a recent surge in border crossings turned ...
President Vladimir Putin said that Islamic State militants had seized nearly 700 hostages in part of Syria controlled by U.S.-backed forces and had executed ...
U.S. officials have rejected claims from Vladimir Putin that ISIS has taken nearly 700 people hostage, including several European and US Nationals in Syria.
ISIS has taken nearly 700 people hostage including several European and US Nationals in Syria and has vowed to kill 10 a day, Vladimir Putin has claimed.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said nearly 700 hostages had been seized by ISIS militants who executed some of them and promised to kill more in a part of ...
As Russians struggle to come to terms with a horrific US-style school shooting in Crimea, which has left at least 20 people dead and dozens injured, ...
"There are issues remaining around the backstop," Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May told reporters on Thursday, referring to the debate over how to treat Ireland and Northern Ireland when the U.K. leaves the EU.Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images
The EU says it is ready to extend the proposed length of the post-Brexit transition period if the UK wants. The current plan is for a transition period of 21 months ...
A longer Brexit transition period would mean even more pain for businesses who are desperate to know what the United Kingdom's exit from the European ...
Editorial: The prime minister's refusal to engage with moderate MPs has led her into the impasse that now makes it so hard to strike a deal in Brussels.
U.S. officials have rejected claims from Vladimir Putin that ISIS has taken nearly 700 people hostage, including several European and US Nationals in Syria.
This would be a significant step that would enable the Kremlin to surpass the U.S. and China. The U.S. is currently unable to defend against this breed of threat.
President Vladimir Putin hailed new missiles in Russia's military arsenals but emphasized Thursday that the country would only use its nuclear weapons in ...
Every spring, cherry blossoms bloom in Japan, and it is an occasion for national celebration. Picnics, picture-taking, parties, and excursions to observe the trees ...
"I have never seen anything like this," said tree surgeon Hiroyuki Wada. Two typhoons that recently struck the country are a likely cause of the sudden flowering.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Cherry blossoms across Japan have bloomed six months early after two powerful typhoons pummeled the country in September, stripping ...
A temple in the southern Indian state of Kerala opened its doors to women for the first time in centuries Wednesday, but no women made it over the threshold.
A New York Times journalist was met with rock-throwing and threats when she tried to visit a Hindu temple after justices ruled that women should be allowed ...
Strategists expect China's weakening currency to eventually fall through a key psychological level that could spark an even steeper drop and no doubt draw a ...
The United States has refrained from labelling China a "currency manipulator" in a move which may help defuse escalating tension over trade between the two ...
BEIJING — Locked in an increasingly rancorous trade war, the United States and China do not see eye to eye on many economic issues. A notable exception: ...
While the U.S. Treasury stopped short of labeling China a currency manipulator in its latest semiannual report, the department's sharpened language didn't ...
Secretary of Defense James Mattis and China's Defense Minister Wei Fenghe are set to meet this week after talks between the two were canceled at the end of ...
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis held talks with his Chinese counterpart against a backdrop of confrontations over trade and other disputes between the Trump ...
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis's denunciation of China's “predatory economic behavior” with respect to smaller neighbors “is just immoral,” a diplomat in Beijing ...
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U.N. Syria Envoy, Staffan de Mistura, Announces Resignation - The New York Times
Mr. de Mistura, the United Nations chief negotiator for Syria, will be the third diplomat to leave the job since Syria's grinding civil war began 7 years ago.
The man the United Nations tasked with helping bring peace to Syria has announced he's leaving his post for personal reasons. UN Special Envoy to Syria Staff.
After more than four years as the U.N. Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura is leaving his post. He says that in his final month, he'll make a major push to ...
UNITED NATIONS—The U.N.'s special envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, announced Wednesday that he would step down at the end of November as U.N.-led ...
The United Nations's envoy to Syria, Staffan de Mistura, plans to step down at the end of November, citing personal reasons. De Mistura told the U.N. Security ...
Anti-corruption protests broke out in Haiti Wednesday over about $2 billion in allegedly misused money from the PetroCaribe program sponsored by Venezuela.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - At least one person was killed and dozens injured as thousands of protesters took to the streets in Haiti on Wednesday over a ...
Protests in Haiti have turned violent as anger grows over billions of dollars of missing funds that were meant to provide social care and improve public serv...
Protests in Haiti have turned violent as anger grows over billions of dollars of missing funds that were meant to provide social care and improve public services.
Twitter announced on Wednesday that it would finally release all of the tweets it had been able to link to Russian and Iranian fake social media operations.
Twitter has released data on more than 10 million tweets from nearly 4000 accounts it said were linked to Russia and Iran, which paint a more nuanced portrait ...
Twitter has published data sets comprising millions of tweets, images and videos and thousands of accounts linked to operatives based in Russia and Iran, ...
An unprecedented volume of Iranian crude oil is set to arrive at China's northeast Dalian port this month and in early November before U.S. sanctions on Iran ...
TURKEY'S only oil refiner is poised to sideline United States sanctions by obtaining a wavier allowing it to keep purchasing Iranian oil, according to industry ...
New York (CNN Business) President Donald Trump's looming sanctions on Iran are the biggest in a series of mysteries confronting the oil market right now.
Turkey's top refiner, Tupras, is in talks with U.S. officials to obtain a waiver allowing it to keep buying Iranian oil after Washington reinstates sanctions on the ...
The number of migrant parents entering the United States with children has surged to record levels in the three months since President Trump ended family ...
Border Patrol agents have seen a major surge in the number of migrant parents entering the US illegally with children, according to a new report. More than ...
A record number of migrant families have entered the United States in the three months since President Trump ended family separations at the border, according ...
The number of migrants illegally entering the United States with their children spiked to a record high in September, just three months after President Trump ...
The United States is requesting that a World Trade Organization dispute resolution panel get involved in a clash over international retaliation over U.S. tariffs on ...
Long before she became first daughter, Ivanka Trump was a young girl who watched her parents go through a tumultuous divorce. But unlike other children of ...
Persistent cellular site outages after Hurricane Michael left many first responders and residents of Panama City, Fla., unable to reach loved ones or those in ...
Sri Lanka has reversed a decision to award a $300m housing deal to China in favour of a joint venture with an Indian company, the government said, ahead of a ...
Sri Lanka's president has called India's prime minister to deny a report that quoted him as saying the Indian secret *service* was plotting to kill him. Maithripala ...
Sri Lanka has reversed a decision to award a $300-million housing deal to China in favour of a joint venture with an Indian company, the government said, ...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe reached New Delhi today on a three-day visit in a bid to boost ties in a range of areas including trade and ...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will reach New Delhi today on a three-day visit which comes in the backdrop of controversial media reports that ...
Twitter suspended a network of suspected Twitter bots on Thursday that pushed pro-Saudi Arabia talking points about the disappearance of journalist Jamal ...
If you thought social media platforms, like Facebook and Twitter, had cleaned up the reams of misinformation online and prohibited actors from manipulating the ...
President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the military and close the southern U.S. border on Thursday if Mexico did not move to halt large groups of migrants ...
US President Donald Trump speaks during a retreat with Republican lawmakers at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland, January 6, 2018. The U.S. leader has suggested that immigrant families are using 'prop' children to make asylum claims at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"They come in with a child and they don't even know who the child is five hours before. And that's a shame," President Donald Trump said of immigrants arriving ...
Expressing confidence in recent days about the impact of his work for GOP candidates in the 2018 mid-term elections for Congress, President Donald Trump ...
Shortly after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry landed in Australia, the Duchess of Sussex's stylist Jessica Mulroney touched down too. But is she dressing the ...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sampled native Australian food in Melbourne on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018 during their trip to the country. They were taken throu.
Joy Behar, a co-panelist on ABC's "The View," on Thursday defended the idea of former Vice President Joe Biden running against President Trump even in his ...
Weed retailers across Canada have reportedly been experiencing shortages or just running out of stock entirely just one day after the country moved to legalize ...
Canada became the second country in the world to legalize marijuana, with stores opening on Wednesday. But the United States, with its own strict laws still in ...
The Moon is great, but apparently it's just not enough for the city of Chengdu in China. Not satisfied with the meager light the Moon reflects back down to Earth at ...
Moonlit skies over the Chinese city of Chengdu may soon get a boost from a second moon. City officials recently announced plans to build an artificial moon, ...
THE south-western Chinese city of Chengdu is planning on launching a fake moon into space in hopes of it illuminating the entire country. The project is set to ...
Turkish crime-scene investigators searched the home of the Saudi consul general in Istanbul on Wednesday in the disappearance of Saudi writer Jamal ...
Speaking with the Associated Press on Tuesday, President Donald Trump compared the treatment of the authoritarian Saudi regime — known for committing ...
Three days before Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in the United States earlier this year for a nationwide tour, another Saudi traveler who ...
The Sri Lanka tourism department is removing controversial signs at Habaraduwa Beach warning tourists not to wear bikinis. Police in the town of Habaraduwa, ...
A caravan of some 3000 Honduran migrants is marching through Guatemala on its way to the United States border. US President Donald Trump is threatening to ...
Anyone entering the US illegally would be arrested, detained and then deported back, President Donald Trump has warned as he threatened three Central ...
More than 2,000 Honduran migrants traveling en masse through Guatemala resumed their journey toward the United States on Wednesday as U.S. President ...
Up to 3000 migrants crossed from Honduras into Guatemala on Monday after warnings from Washington DC that migrants should not try to enter the United ...
The Mexican government has reinforced security at its southern border with Guatemala before a 2000-person caravan of Hondurans is expected to try to enter ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump presented the nation's highest military honor Wednesday to an 80-year-old retired Marine sergeant major who five ...
Marine veteran John Canley, now 80 and a retired sergeant major, received the nation's highest military honor Wednesday for his “conspicuous gallantry” during ...
President Trump awarded the Medal of Honor Wednesday to retired Sgt. Major John Canley for his “unmatched bravery” that saved the lives of at least 20 fellow ...
A Saudi mission to interrogate and possibly abduct journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul was organized by a high-ranking officer with Saudi Arabia's main ...
Move over, Stephen Miller; it's Jared Kushner's turn to be the Trump administration's Prince of Darkness. Less than a week after President Trump's son-in-law ...
The chief executive officers of HSBC Holdings Plc and Credit Suisse Group AG became the latest top bankers to abandon an investment conference in Saudi ...
(CNN Business) Some of the biggest names in global business and finance have canceled plans to attend an investment conference in Saudi Arabia next week ...
U.S. President Donald Trump gave Saudi Arabia the benefit of the doubt in the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi even as U.S. lawmakers pointed ...
The family of missing activist Jamal Khashoggi said Monday they're following the news of the writer, who disappeared in Saudi Arabia on Oct. 2. "We are sadly ...
US President Donald Trump will meet Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday as the White House struggles to contain a spiraling crisis over Jamal ...
Two men who say they were repeatedly molested by their former Catholic grade school teacher confronted him nearly 30 years later while CBS News' hidden ...
Two childhood friends confront the former Pennsylvania priest who they say molested them as children for a CBS News investigative report that will be broadcast ...
The National Weather *Service* has updated its long-range forecast for the upcoming winter, and it's all good news for Minnesotans who prefer it a little warmer ...
After several mostly gray days of cold, wind, rain and even snow flurries, Minnesotans stashed their scarves and basked in the sun Thursday, a perfect fall day ...
Time to look ahead to winter and what we might expect from it this year. There's bad news and more bad news. Sorry about that but this is Canada, the country ...
As part of a media blitz leading up to the 2018 midterm election, President Donald Trump sat down with the Associated Press for a wide-ranging interview.
It “certainly looks” like missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead, President Donald Trump said as he was preparing to board Air Force One on Thursday ...
WASHINGTON — He accepts less-than-credible denials from autocratic heads of state about nefarious acts. He disputes the existence of man-made climate ...
There are two approaches when dealing with a crime. One approach is finding all the facts, getting the facts out and holding the guilty responsible. And then ...
Turkish crime scene investigators spent more than nine hours examining the premises of the Saudi consul general's residence in Istanbul. "Samples" were recov ...
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner raised concerns among administration officials by communicating with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...
Poster boy for nepotism Jared Kushner has made himself scarce in the past two weeks as it became clear the Saudi regime had some duplicitous role in the ...
On Wednesday recreational marijuana legalization went into effect across the great northern expanse of Canada. About an hour later, police in Winnipeg issued ...
The celebratory mood that marked the legalization of recreational cannabis lost a bit of its high for some consumers who found themselves with hefty fines for ...
(CNN Business) Most of the big names who were due to attend Saudi Arabia's investment conference next week have bailed out following the disappearance ...
A spokesperson for IMF chief Christine Lagarde said the trip to the Saudi capital Riyadh “is being deferred,” with no mention of when it could be rescheduled.
Oct.17 -- The IMF has become embroiled in the Khashoggi affair. Managing Director Christine Lagarde is deferring her trip to Saudi Arabia where she was to at...
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