SHAKARDARA, Afghanistan — With every step, the blisters burned. After three days of walking barefoot alongside a highway from Kabul with about 50 other ...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday announced a monthlong ceasefire of action against the Taliban, which said it will release hundreds of prisoners to ...
KABUL — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, defying expectations just days after a major Taliban attack on a large Afghan city, announced Sunday afternoon that ...
Ahn Seung-choon was 14 when her 17-year-old brother was taken away from the family home in Pyeongchang. "After that day, we didn't hear anything about him," Ahn says.Michael Sullivan/NPR
With tensions easing between North and South Korea, the two sides are reviving cross-border reunions that began in 1985. On Monday, 93 South Koreans will ...
SOKCHO, South Korea — Kim Kwang-ho was just 14 years old when his family was ripped in two during the Korean War. It was December 1950, and Chinese ...
It's a question that has baffled every U.S. president since Harry Truman: What do we do about North Korea? Nowadays, the question is even more complex, ...
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Pyongyang next month at the invitation of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to attend the ...
Muslim worshippers circle around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on August 15, 2018, prior to the start of the annual Hajj pilgrimage.Ahmad Al-rubaye / AFP/Getty Images
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — More than 2 million Muslims began the annual hajj pilgrimage at first light on Sunday in Saudi Arabia, circling the cube-shaped Kaaba ...
Millions of Muslims gather every year in the holy, Saudi Arabian city of Mecca for Hajj –- a pilgrimage that includes a series of specific rituals carried out by the ...
As nearly 2 million pilgrims from around the world braved heavy rain in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to begin the annual haj ritual, the country's health minister said ...
Saudi Arabia is preparing to host the annual hajj pilgrimage beginning Sunday, as over 2 million Muslim faithful are ready to take part in the ultraconservative ...
Many Venezuelan shops closed as a precaution as confusion reigned Saturday following measures announced by President Nicolas Maduro aimed at fighting ...
Businesses closed, banks struggled with transactions and people scrambled to find fuel, signs of panicked and skeptical reactions to Venezuela's measures ...
Striking images show food supplies, like a 2.4kg chicken (pictured), next to an enormous pile of 14600000 bolivars ($2.20) and 2600000 bolivars ($0.40) next to ...
Reversing earlier U.S. policy, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorized the CIA to instigate a coup d'état in Tehran that led to the overthrow of Iranian Prime ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Sunday that a new Iran Action Group in the U.S. State Department aimed to overthrow the Islamic ...
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday said the new U.S. “Iran Action Group” will look to overthrow the Iranian government but predicted it ...
From the free fall of the Iranian rial, to street protests demanding regime change, to the death sentence pronounced by the US towards normalised trade ...
A series of incidents at Israeli border crossings has highlighted a growing gulf between the country's hard-line government and liberal Jewish Americans who ...
When Simone Zimmerman arrived at the check-in window at the Israeli border with Egypt, it didn't take long for the young activist to run into trouble. Zimmerman ...
TEL AVIV—Israel closed its only pedestrian crossing with the Gaza Strip on Sunday in response to violent protests at the border fence, a move that comes amid ...
Two major earthquakes struck the Pacific -- an 8.2 magnitude one about 200 miles from Fiji and Tonga and a 6.3-magnitude tremor in Indonesia's Lomback ...
(CNN) A massive 8.2 magnitude earthquake struck in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly 200 miles off Fiji and almost the same distance from Tonga, ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm in arm with Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday, leaving many across Europe to ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin showed up Saturday at the wedding of the Austrian foreign minister with singing Cossacks, controversy, and his dancing ...
VIENNA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm-in-arm with Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday, after ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday. One of the topics will be a proposed Russian ...
Thousands of people have been paying tribute to former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who has been cremated in New Delhi. He was the first ...
The West Bengal BJP unit is planning to organize an all party condolence meeting for former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who passed away in New Delhi ...
On Thursday, former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, an enormously influential figure in the country's politics, died at the age of 93. His passing has ...
KOROR, Palau (Reuters) - Empty hotel rooms, idle tour boats and shuttered travel agencies reveal widening fissures in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which is ...
Empty hotel rooms, idle tour boats and shuttered travel agencies reveal widening fissures in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which is caught in an escalating ...
Empty hotel rooms, idle tour boats and shuttered travel agencies reveal widening fissures in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which is caught in an escalating ...
Empty hotel rooms, idle tour boats and shuttered travel agencies reveal widening fissures in the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, which is caught in an escalating ...
Just weeks after scoring a major military victory in the south, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad appears set to fully open a new, more complex, front in the ...
Fears are growing over the fate of civilians in Syria's Idlib as President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers prepare an assault of the rebel enclave.
Syria's ghastly civil war grinds on. We appear now, however, to be nearing the rebels' last stand. Bashar al-Assad's troops are closing in on Idlib. This is the ...
As expected, the Assad regime has been cleaning out the last of the rebel resistance after seven years of horrible death and refugee displacement in the Syrian ...
The U.S. is withholding funds to stabilize war-ravaged Syria and warning that future assistance hinges on UN verification that a “credible and irreversible” ...
The woman was plucked from the Adriatic Sea by a Croatian rescue ship Sunday morning after falling from the Norwegian Star late Saturday, Croatia's coast ...
A BRITISH woman who spent more than 10 hours in the Adriatic Sea after falling from a cruise ship is safe and well after been rescued 60 miles off the coast of ...
A British woman was pulled from the water in Croatia 10 hours after falling off a cruise ship into the Adriatic Sea. The woman, who gave her name as Kay, is said ...
Chinese, Iranian and North Korean attempts to meddle in the 2018 US elections are, like Russia's efforts, "a sufficient national security concern," White House ...
U.S. officials are concerned that not only Russia but also China, Iran and North Korea will try to interfere in this fall's midterm elections, national security adviser ...
National security advisor John Bolton reportedly said Sunday that the U.S. government is not just worried about Russian interference in the 2018 midterm ...
White House National Security Advisor John Bolton says Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran all could potentially try to interfere in the 2018 U.S. midterms.
It was at his elite boarding school in West Africa that Kofi Annan - the man who would later become the world's top diplomat - learnt one of his most importa...
GENEVA — The Latest on the death of former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan (all times local). 3 a.m.. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his ...
World figures have been paying tribute to former UN secretary-general and Nobel laureate Kofi Annan, who has died at the age of 80. Current UN chief Antonio ...
Relentless monsoon floods in the southern Indian state of Kerala have left around 800000 people displaced and nearly 10000 others stranded, according to ...
KOCHI, India (Reuters) - A deluge in India's flood-stricken southwestern state of Kerala finally let up on Sunday, giving some respite for thousands of marooned ...
TRIVANDRUM, India (AP) — Thousands of stranded people were waiting to be rescued Saturday and officials pleaded for more help as relentless monsoon ...
INDIA'S southern state Kerala is in crisis after devastating flooding struck the region, leaving scores dead and thousands displaced. But is it worse than the 1924 ...
The Indonesian island of Lombok has been shaken by two strong earthquakes, after weeks of tremors that have killed hundreds of people. A magnitude 6.3 ...
SEMBALUN, Indonesia (AP) — A strong earthquake jolted the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, causing landslides and damaging buildings, ...
A *fresh* tremor of 6.3 magnitude struck the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok on Sunday a few weeks after an earthquake killed more than 430 people there.
From creating 10 million jobs to building an Islamic welfare state and restoring Pakistan's tattered image abroad, new premier Imran Khan is facing a problem of ...
KABUL — Rising to take the oath as Pakistan's 22nd prime minister, Imran Khan put to rest one topic of frenzied public speculation about Saturday's ceremony in ...
Imran Khan, the former cricket star turned firebrand politician, was sworn in as Pakistan's prime minister on Saturday, taking control of a country facing a looming ...
Numerous challenges await former cricketer, who was sworn in as Pakistan's new prime minister in the capital.
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Navy personnel airlift people to safety during a rescue operation at a flooded area in Paravoor, in the Indian state of Kerala, on August 18, 2018.AFP/Getty Images
CHENGANNUR, India — Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state, ...
CHENGANNUR, India — Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state, ...
CHENGANNUR, India — Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state, ...
(CHENGANNUR, India) — Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India's Kerala state, ...
KNOCK, Ireland — The pilgrims still come, many on foot. The faithful still fill their plastic jugs with the healing holy water. The sick are anointed with oil. And by ...
The archbishop of Dublin said Sunday he hopes Pope Francis will speak frankly about the darkness of priestly sex abuse during his upcoming visit to Ireland, ...
If the Catholic sexual abuse scandal that came to light in 2002 slowly unspooled through news reports, Pennsylvania's grand jury report landed like an atom ...
In 1979 Pope John Paul II celebrated mass before 1.25m people in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Next Sunday only 500000 are expected to be in the park for mass ...
ARCHBISHOP Diarmuid Martin has called on Pope Francis to do more than just apologise for clerical...
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Why has Turkey detained Christian pastor at centre of diplomatic crisis with US?Andrew Brunson: Why has Turkey detained Christian pastor at centre of diplomatic crisis with US? | The Independentindependent_brand_ident_LOGOUntitled
When Andrew Brunson saw a police summons on his door in late summer 2016, the US evangelical pastor thought it was a routine appointment to sort out his ...
Turkey's descent into authoritarianism and crisis has destroyed whatever hopes remained that the country's president might serve as a force for moderation.
The US is increasing pressure on Turkey to try to secure the freedom of American pastor Andrew Brunson. While the leaders of the two Nato allies clash with ...
NATO's largest standing army in Europe is now cosying up to Iran and indebted to Qatar. Russia and China could be waiting in the wings to get closer to Turkey ...
An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir flight and ordered it to land in Cyprus has been extradited after giving up a drawn-out legal fight, authorities have ...
An Egyptian man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight in 2016 and ordered it to land in Cyprus to allegedly protest Egypt's military-backed government has ...
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The Harrisburg area will see scattered showers throughout the day today, and though some sunshine is expected on Monday, more heavy rain and thunderstorms are in store.
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are about to receive a special delivery of more than 10 tons of mail that has been delayed by Israel for the past eight ...
About 840 bridges across France are suffering from serious damage and are at risk of collapse in the coming years, according to an audit commissioned by the ...
PARIS — An audit commissioned by the French government says about 840 French bridges are suffering from serious damage and at risk of collapse in the ...
FRANCE is at risk of seeing a shocking 840 bridges collapse in the same devastating way as the Genoa tragedy that killed 43 people in Italy, a damning audit ...
More than 800 road bridges in France are at risk of collapsing within a few years, according to a survey carried out for the Transport Ministry that has raised ...
More than 800 bridges across France are suffering from serious damage and are at risk of collapsing, according to an audit commissioned by the French ...
Moises, 17, left, and Jaime look down on the patchwork of neighborhoods outside San Pedro Sula, a city in Honduras where gang rivalries play out. The violence is so bad that "no one goes in" the neighborhoods, says photojournalist Tomas Ayuso. "Food delivery trucks, ambulances don't want to go in because they're afraid something will happen."Tomas Ayuso
White House budget director Mick Mulvaney suspects the city of Washington, D.C., was motivated by political reasons to undermine President Trump's desire to ...
VoteVets, a nonprofit veterans organization, announced on Friday that it is looking to plan a 5k race for Veterans Day in 2019 to mock President Trump.
President Trump's cancellation of his national military parade this fall comes as good news. How he canceled it, though, displays yet again his arrogance and ...
Washington (CNN) The US will end funding for stabilization efforts in Syria in another sign of President Donald Trump's intent to pull out of the long-running ...
The United States said on Friday it had secured $300 million from coalition partners to help stabilize parts of Syria retaken from ISIS, after President Donald ...
The State Department will pull back funding it had allocated to rebuild parts of Syria once held by the Islamic State, saying Friday that other countries will now ...
Making good on President Trump's stated desire to reduce the U.S. role in Syria, the State Department announced Friday it was ending $230 million in ...
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Friday that it had decided against spending $230 million earmarked to help stabilize Syria, the United ...
German prosecutors said Saturday they are taking seriously a Yazidi refugee's claim that she ran into her former Islamic State captor twice in Germany, but say ...
Ashwaq Haji Hamid, 19, was one of roughly 5000 women from the Yazidi minority group to be cruelly kidnapped by ISIS in 2014 as the group imposed a reign of ...
German prosecutors on Saturday said they are investigating after a 19-year-old Yazidi woman who survived an ordeal as an ISIS sex slave says she ran into her ...
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President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan in Paraguay earlier this month, after a stopover in Los Angeles.Jorge Adorno/Reuters
TAIPEI, Taiwan — President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan visited Houston over the weekend, her second brief stop in the United States in one week, a sign of efforts to ...
BELMOPAN (Reuters) - Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen thanked the government of Belize on Friday for backing Taiwan's claim to independence from China ...
Egypt has rolled out a new law that allows authorities, through a judge, to order the blocking of websites that "constitute a threat" to the state, as well as jail or fine ...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has signed a new law that tightens controls over the internet. The legislation on "cybercrime" means websites can be ...
Egypt has adopted a law that threatens to jail anyone who browses censored websites, after having already blocked dozens of sites belonging to human rights ...
Hundreds of people gathered in Buenos Aires on Saturday to oppose the influence of religion on Argentine politics and encourage people to quit the Roman ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May could face trouble getting her Brexit deal approved by the British parliament before exit day unless she ...
Conservative MPs are warning of a risk of entryism in the party as the pro-Brexit group Leave.EU encourages its supporters to become members in order to back ...
A no-deal Brexit is not the UK government's plan A and should not be plan B either, a Welsh MP has said. Talks have resumed in Brussels between UK and EU ...
Britain will recognise some EU regulations in the event of a no-deal Brexit to ensure that the country does not grind to a halt, The Telegraph has learned.
Every day since, the establishment – members of the House of Lords, mandarins, big business – have been fighting to stop Brexit. They seek to defy the ...
CHINESE pirates have ransacked ten British ships sunk off the coasts of Malaysia and Indonesia during World War 2 which are designated as war graves, ...
An investigation is being launched into claims that up to 10 British Second World War wrecks in Asia have been plundered for scrap metal. Gavin Williamson, the ...
Ten British ships sunk during Second World War and designated as war graves have been plundered for scrap metal by Chinese pirates, the Mail has found ...
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — After 18 months of treating North Korea as the top national security threat, President Trump has increasingly turned his attention to ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping instituted Xi Jinping thought — an ideology now included in the Chinese constitution. In theory, the ideological architecture...
China's Defence Ministry has lodged a complaint with the United States about a Pentagon report that said China's military was likely training for strikes against ...
IPIALES, Colombia (Reuters) - Tears welled up in Gabriel Malavolta's eyes on Saturday as he realized his dream of a new life in Peru was over, at least for now.
What happens when the country with the world's largest oil reserves becomes its latest failed state? As Venezuela's government grows increasingly despotic, ...
A RECORD number of white South African farmers have put their land up for sale amid fears the ruling party is considering confiscating properties bigger than ...
The future of the ruling African National Congress is seen as uncertain because of leadership matters within the party, according to more than half of the 3619 ...
I wonder what goes through the mind of South African president Cyril Ramaphosa each morning. I imagine him sipping coffee, planning how he's going to get ...
White House national security adviser John Bolton on Sunday said he's open to privatizing military operations in Afghanistan following reports last week that ...
Growing impatient with the conflict in Afghanistan as it stretches into its 17th year, President Trump is becoming more receptive to appeals to privatize the war, ...
President Donald Trump's national security adviser addressed the idea of using private contractors to help fight the U.S. war in Afghanistan, saying he is "always ...
Billionaire Blackwater founder Erik Prince has revived his vision for the privatization of America's war in Afghanistan. The former Navy SEAL and businessman ...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is increasingly venting frustration to his national security team about the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and showing ...
Julie Anne Genter, New Zealand's minister for women's affairs, posted photographs on social media of her “mostly downhill” trip to a hospital, where she was ...
Auckland, New Zealand (CNN) A New Zealand lawmaker made her own way to a hospital to have her baby, covering the kilometers from her suburban home to ...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte thinks political dynasties are bad. But the way the prevailing political winds are blowing, it looks like a dynasty of his own ...
Here are the stories our D.C. insiders are talking about in this week's "Inside Politics" forecast, where you get a glimpse of tomorrow's headlines today.
ABU DHABI (Reuters) - U.S. forces will stay in Iraq “as long as needed” to help stabilize regions previously controlled by Islamic State, a spokesman for the ...
President Donald Trump sought to cast blame Friday for the cancellation of his planned military parade on Washington city council officials, saying they had ...
The Post reported Thursday that President Trump's grand military parade is on hold: Col. Rob Manning, a Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement that the ...
Whatever you think of President Trump's decision to cancel the military parade in Washington, D.C., you should welcome his attendance at the centenary of the ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had canceled a planned military parade for November due to high costs and would instead visit Paris to ...
In the Trump presidency, some controversies are appalling, some are terrifying, and some are just plain stupid. Today we have an update on one that falls into ...
A basking shark's enormous silhouette, rarely seen in oceans worldwide, is a major draw for scientists who are mapping its often mysterious migrations.
In Windsor, Ontario, angst is rising that the border town's ties to the U.S. auto industry, already strained by steel tariffs, could soon be ruptured by President ...
There is almost no dimension of politics in which Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, acts in a consistent fashion. The one exception is that ...
I see from reading The Tribune (Aug. 14) that President Donald Trump continues to tweet about NFL football players taking a knee during the national anthem.
There's a tropical storm brewing in the Atlantic Ocean and heading for Ireland. Tropical storm Ernesto is expected to complete its trans-Atlantic travel Saturday ...
TEMPERATURES are set to soar into the mid 20s again as Britain was battered by Storm Ernesto overnight. The North of England and Scotland bore the brunt of ...
THE REMNANTS of tropical Storm Ernesto is due to smash into the UK this morning, leading to fierce winds and torrential rain across parts of the country before ...
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Chairwoman Alice Paul, second from left, and officers of the National Woman's Party hold a banner with a Susan B. Anthony quote in front of the NWP headquarters in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo)
Chairwoman Alice Paul, second from left, and officers of the National Woman's Party hold a banner with a Susan B. Anthony quote in front of the NWP ...
Hundreds of neo-Nazis waving flags with the colors of the German Reich are marching through central Berlin, protected from counter-protesters by police in riot ...
Hundreds of neo-Nazis marching to commemorate the death of a top Nazi figure were met with counterprotests in Berlin over the weekend.
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An Ugandan police officer lifts his AK-47 riffle aloft opposite protesters during a demonstration. Ugandan Police officers arrested pastor Jimmy Tailor after he assaulted a hotel employee Thursday.
Police in Uganda said they arrested a U.S. citizen this week after reviewing video that appeared to show him physically attacking hotel employees. The official ...
A Vietnam veteran claiming to be a missionary assaulted hotel workers in Uganda in a very ungodly display where he called the employees the n-word and ...
When he applied for refugee status in the United States, Omar Abdulsattar Ameen told officials he was fleeing persecution in his native Iraq. He was cleared by ...
After years of hesitation, scientists are blaming global warming more forcefully, and quickly, for extreme weather events like heat waves and droughts.
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