A series of scandals will be looming large in the eyes of church leaders and Vatican watchers alike when a highly anticipated conference on child abuse in the ...
WASHINGTON -- Pope Francis is increasingly showing his hand. He came into the papacy promising to clean up the Catholic Church, especially on matters of ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is militarily ready for a Cuban Missile-style crisis if the United States is foolish enough to ...
President Vladimir Putin, speaking during his state-of-the-nation address Wednesday, warned that Russia will target new hypersonic missiles at the U.S. should ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin knew that, in his state of the nation address, he would have to respond to the steep drop in his popularity since the middle of ...
Russia's ongoing development of hypersonic weapons proves nuclear weapons are in fact warfighting weapons — contrary to conventional wisdom in the West.
(Reuters) - As many as 15 British government ministers may vote to stop the United Kingdom leaving the European Union on March 29 in the event that no Brexit ...
The way Jean-Claude Juncker showed Theresa May an injury to his left cheek tonight during meetings in Brussels it seemed they really might have come to ...
The threat of a no-deal Brexit is "focusing minds" and encouraging compromise, the chancellor has said. Philip Hammond said the government was "determined ...
British lawmakers could be given a vote on a revised Brexit deal as soon as next week as negotiators in Brussels scramble to clinch last-minute changes to a ...
Two of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest challengers in April elections have announced a centrist alliance in a bid to defeat him. Ex-army chief Benny ...
In 1988, extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane's party was banned from Israel's parliament for being racist and undemocratic. Now his followers are making a comeback, ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's two main rivals are joining forces for April's elections, a move that poses a serious challenge to the right-wing ...
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came under mounting criticism Thursday for making a pact with an extreme far-right political party, ...
In an effort to maintain power after elections in April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has persuaded three fringe parties of the extreme right to form ...
A fire in Bangladesh killed at least 81 people and gutted a section of Chawkbazar, a section of Dhaka that dates to the Mughal era 400 years ago, in a stark ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A devastating fire raced through densely packed buildings in a centuries-old district in Bangladesh's capital, killing at least 81 ...
At least 70 people were killed and 55 others injured as a deadly fire broke out in a densely populated residential area at Chawk Bazar in old town of Dhaka ...
There are no indications that a shooting in the southern German city of Munich which left two people dead had a terrorist background, a police spokesman said ...
Labour and the Conservatives could face more resignations, with members of the new Independent Group saying they expect more MPs to join them. Ex-Tory ...
Three parliamentarians from Britain's ruling Conservative Party are breaking from the ranks to join the Independent Group, a centrist coalition started on Monday ...
Just over a month before Brexit, seven members of the Labour Party in Britain's Parliament have just quit to form a new “Independent Group." Word is that they ...
Hong Kong (CNN) Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman touched down in Beijing Thursday to begin the last leg of his Asia tour, designed to ...
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke with protocol to greet the Saudi crown prince on the airport tarmac this week in New Delhi – with a big bear ...
So far, so utterly predictable. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's grand tour of Asia has proceeded along the lines expected for a Saudi potentate: ...
Feb.20 -- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman will arrive in China today after his visit to India and Pakistan. He's in the middle of a tour through Asia ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that an Alabama woman who joined ISIS but now wants to return home with the 18-month-son she had with ...
"ISIS bride" Hoda Muthana, who has been asking to return to the United States, is not an American citizen, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement ...
An Alabama woman, who willingly left her family to join the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is now begging to return home to the United States. The simple ...
Tucker Carlson, the Fox News host, has lately been trying to rebrand himself as a different kind of conservative — one who's open to government intervention to ...
“Tucker Carlson Tonight” is a binary production. Here's how it breaks down: The host, Tucker Carlson, either welcomes a guest with whom he agrees, in which ...
Fox News opinion host Tucker Carlson apologized for the "vulgar" language he used during a heated, unaired interview with Dutch historian and author Rutger ...
An adult female Fernandina Giant Tortoise (Chelonoidis phantasticus) was discovered by members of the Galapagos National Park and the US NGO Galapagos ...
NEW DELHI — Hours after a suicide bomber rammed an Indian security convoy in Kashmir last week, the threats began. In the northern Indian city of Dehradun, ...
The scale and timing of the suicide bombing against Indian police in Kashmir may leave Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, little option except to retaliate, ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Prime Minister Imran Khan of Pakistan offered on Tuesday to investigate allegations by New Delhi that a Pakistan-based militant group ...
The head organizer of the Vatican's sex abuse summit has met with an Irish activist who is seeking to draw attention to another issue the Vatican has long sought ...
It has puzzled them since the days of Charles Darwin, but now scientists have established why Zebras have stripes - and it's not just for looks. They also stop ...
An unusual experiment dressed horses up in stripy coats in the fields of Somerset to conduct the research. They found that horse flies landed on zebras a ...
China is proposing that it could buy an additional $30 billion a year of U.S. agricultural products including soybeans, corn and wheat as part of a possible trade ...
U.S. and Chinese negotiators are reportedly nearing a deal that would end a months-long trade dispute as a deadline for a pause in tariff action draws closer.
Feb.20 -- Steve Moore, economic adviser to the Trump 2016 campaign and senior fellow at Heritage Foundation, discusses U.S.-China trade negotiations, ...
A United Nations Security Council sanctions committee has approved the travel of a North Korean delegation to Vietnam next week for a summit between U.S. ...
Kim Jong Un used the threat of war—and Trump's own hysterical rhetoric—to create a situation where he appears a peacemaker, and U.S. forces are out of the ...
With just days to go before his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Trump seems to have tried to lower public expectations for the ...
US National Security Advisor John Bolton will travel to South Korea later this week for a round of consultations ahead of President Donald Trump's upcoming ...
MEDELLÍN, Colombia — Venezuela's government said on Wednesday that it was closing its border to air and sea traffic from three Caribbean islands in an effort ...
Pink Floyd rocker Roger Waters is now warning Richard Branson to “back off” in a social media video claiming that his upcoming Live Aid-style concert aimed at ...
Venezuela's Interim President Juan Guaidó is asking followers to surround military bases on Saturday to demand that the armed forces allow aid into the country ...
On Monday, President Trump made the crisis in Venezuela a central part of a rally in Florida. And yes, to rail against a socialist country where people quite ...
President Trump, who has been embroiled in one of the most difficult stretches of his presidency, has a chance to win some positive headlines and build some ...
Judging from his negotiating stance with North Korea, President Donald Trump has either forgotten much of his best-selling book, The Art of the Deal, or, as his ...
President Donald Trump is just one week away from one of the most important moments of his presidency — and he's trying to lower expectations in advance.
Siegfried S. Hecker was the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997 and is a senior fellow emeritus at the Center for International ...
The U.S. government says it will position 190 metric tons of supplies by Friday, ready to deploy throughout Venezuela, according to Mark Green, the ...
Venezuela's opposition lawmakers are forging ahead with plans to confront a government blockade that has kept tens of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid, ...
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido plans to head to the Colombian border in a convoy of vehicles on Thursday to receive humanitarian aid for his ...
Venezuelan troops have begun disobeying orders from Nicolas Maduro's top officers and are unlikely to heed calls to crack down on a humanitarian-aid caravan ...
A delegation of Pakistani senators sprang a surprise Monday during a visit by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, presenting him with a gift of ...
Saudi Arabia will release 850 Indians from its prisons after a request from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during its Crown Prince Mohammed bin ...
Prince Mohammed bin Salman was presented with a gold-plated machine gun by his Pakistani hosts when he arrived in the country earlier this week. It was ...
As pressure in India builds on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to respond to the deadliest terrorist attack on security forces in a generation, the range of options ...
British billionaire Richard Branson said on Monday that he will stage a massive pop concert just outside Venezuela to raise money for the country, which is in ...
LONDON — Britain has said that it is revoking the citizenship of Shamima Begum, a teenager who four years ago fled to become an “ISIS bride” and has ...
A teen who fled the UK to join the Islamic State complained that it was “unjust” and “heartbreaking” that the British government revoked her citizenship, effectively ...
US President Donald Trump has bypassed Congress to advance the sale of US nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns it would violate US law, ...
THE LIGHTBULB. Women walk past a poster of Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh. (Reuters/Faisal Al Nasser). White House lawyers ...
Senior members of the Trump administration have been accused of pushing for nuclear sales to Saudi Arabia - repeatedly ignoring legal objections. A detailed .
House Republicans are forcefully pushing back against a Democratic-led probe announced Tuesday into an alleged plot by White House officials to share ...
We know their names, and where they were. But no one has given a public explanation for what several former elite U.S. *service* members were doing in Haiti ...
A group of Americans detained in Haiti and accused of being "terrorists" by the country's leader have returned to the United States, according to the Miami ...
A heavily armed group of foreign nationals, who were arrested in Haiti on Sunday after days of massive anti-government protests, were handed over to U.S. ...
The five Americans who allegedly claimed they were on "a government mission" when they were arrested driving around Haiti with a stash of guns headed back ...
A group of Americans arrested in Haiti driving around Port-au-Prince with an arsenal of weapons arrived back in the United States Wednesday night after failing ...
U.S. and Chinese negotiators are working on multiple memorandums of understanding that would form the basis of a final trade deal, according to a person ...
Despite their sharp differences in style, background and policies, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Trump share a common problem: growing concerns ...
The market is way too long this China trade truce. Time to face reality: Washington and Beijing will not agree on hot button issues anytime soon. Maybe never.
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new measures to tackle anti-Semitism, following a spate of attacks. He told Jewish leaders that France ...
More than 90 graves were desecrated with swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans at a Jewish cemetery in France amid a spike in attacks targeting Jewish people ...
ISRAEL'S Immigration Minister Yoav Gallant has called on France's Jews to “come home” to Israel in the wake of the anti-Semitic vandalism of a cemetery in ...
Growing up, I used to think anti-Semitism was like the Black Death: tragic, nightmarish, and historic. It had wiped out millions of people. It was theoretically ...
A convoy of some 2000 people is said to have rolled out of Deir Az Zor in Syria's northeastern province on Wednesday, signaling the last civilian evacuation ...
Civilians have been evacuated from the last village in Syria still held by the Islamic State (IS) group. A convoy on Wednesday carried hundreds of men, women ...
As the deadline approaches for the withdrawal of U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria, America's closest European allies have turned down a Trump ...
Islamic State appeared closer to defeat in its last enclave in eastern Syria on Wednesday, as a civilian convoy left the besieged area where U.S.-backed forces ...
U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell says the Trump administration has backing at home from Republicans to push to end laws that criminalize homosexuality ...
President Trump's greatest power is his ability to reduce his critics into bubbly, spittle-flecked puddles of screaming fury. He doesn't even have to say a word.
The U.N. Mideast envoy says the prospect of peace between Israel and the Palestinians "is fading by the day as the specter of violence and radicalism grows" ...
Two split-screen events in one day last week displayed new global alliances ready to clash, Cold War-style. In Poland, America tried to push Mideast peace. At...
A prominent Afghan political leader who once had the support of some officials to lead Afghanistan's negotiating team with the Taliban, warned the president ...
Seven children, all members of a Syrian refugee family, died early Tuesday in a fast-moving house fire, one of Nova Scotia's deadliest blazes in recent memory.
The loss of one child is devastating. The loss of seven? Unimaginable. But that's the grim reality the Barho family faces after all seven of the family's children died ...
The loss of one child is devastating. The loss of seven? Unimaginable. But that's the grim reality the Barho family faces after all seven of the family's children died ...
Seven children are dead following a fire that swept through the Halifax home of a Syrian refugee family, the deadliest house fire in recent Nova Scotia histo...
HALIFAX — Dozens of people gathered outside the charred remnants of a suburban Halifax home Tuesday night to mourn the loss of seven children killed in a ...
President Trump's inaugural committee chair is facing scrutiny from a variety of sources. Tom Barrack is a wealthy real estate investor who helped the ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will not accept a monthly tax transfer from Israel if it carries out its decision to deduct amounts the Palestinians ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestinian Authority (PA) will no longer accept tax revenues collected on its behalf by Israel following its decision to trim ...
The Trump administration is slated to consolidate the U.S. consulate general in Jerusalem that serves Palestinians with the city's new U.S. embassy next month, ...
The Trump administration will reportedly merge the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem, the diplomatic office that serves Palestinians, with the U.S. Embassy in ...
New York (CNN) President Donald Trump is considering new tariffs on foreign cars and auto parts, but some of the strongest opposition is coming from the ...
As lawmakers are working to curtail President Trump's tariff powers, he's mulling over a new round, this time on cars and car parts. It's a terrible idea, but one ...
The President's misguided devotion to auto tariffs as a source of negotiating leverage could be an important addition to his growing list of international policy ...
DORAL, FLA. - Rosa Viller was living a nightmare in Venezuela. She loved her country but she couldn't take her kids Sharon and Alejandro to the park. In fact ...
PRESIDENT Nicolás Maduro has gone on a scathing attack on Donald Trump and accused the US President of sounding 'almost Nazi-style' during his fiery ...
When U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer was growing up in Ashtabula, Ohio, in the 1950s, it was a thriving port town on Lake Erie where everyone ...
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif accused Israel of engaging in "adventurism" with its bombing campaigns in Syria and said he could not rule out ...
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic's partner gave a birth to a baby boy Wednesday, her office said, heralding it as a historic event although the conservative ...
The British government's decision to strip the citizenship of a teenager who joined ISIS in Syria is a rebuke of the Trump administration, is questionable under ...
Preventing another generation of young women from fleeing to join terror groups will require serious rethinking. Affording opportunities and empowering ...
H.A. Hellyer is a senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London and the Atlantic Council in Washington. LONDON — This week, British ...
Editorial: The hasty decision to take away the rights of a high-profile Isis recruit is likely to face a legal challenge. Whether or not it was lawful, it was wrong.
Days after the remains of a Croatian woman – who vanished nearly two decades ago – were located in a freezer, her older sister was reportedly given a ...
Smiljana Srnec, 45, was seen arriving at court today on suspicion of murdering her sister and keeping her body in a freezer in the family home for 18 years.
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's lower chamber handed right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro his first defeat in Congress on Tuesday, the day before his government ...
SEATTLE — A group of hackers associated with Russian intelligence targeted civil society groups across Europe ahead of May elections there, Microsoft said on ...
Tanzania has charged a Chinese businesswoman for leading the country's most notorious ivory poaching ring. Yang Fenglan was sentenced to 15 years in ...
A prominent Chinese businesswoman dubbed the "Ivory Queen" was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian court on Tuesday for smuggling the tusks ...
A Chinese businesswoman labelled the "Ivory Queen" has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Tanzanian judge for smuggling the tusks of more than 350 ...
An interim report from the House Oversight Committee paints a familiar picture of Trump associates skirting the law to curry favor with people who can make ...
That the Trump administration is deeply, profoundly corrupt is not in question. But there are layers to that corruption that we have barely begun to explore.
Another British member of parliament has quit the opposition Labour Party, in the wake of seven lawmakers splitting to form the Independent Group in ...
There is no new centre-ground party. The thing that has suddenly appeared in our midst is not a party and it is not on the centre ground. It is a Remain protest ...
An eighth lawmaker has quit Britain's Labour Party over its handling of anti-Semitism and Brexit, boosting a new breakaway group from the U.K.'s main ...
Anna Soubry, Sarah Wollaston and Heidi Allen quit the Tory Party for the new today in an explosive new development of the group launched on Monday by a ...
Germany has refused to bow to pressure from Britain to start selling arms to Saudi Arabia again. Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, had written to Berlin to ask ...
Britain's top diplomat has urged Germany to relax its ban on arms sales to Saudi Arabia because they are affecting U.K. sales of weapons to — and by extension ...
