Investigators probing the devastating blast in Beirut that killed at least 135 people and injured 5000 more are pointing to a Russian ship docked in the city's port ...
Decades of stoic resistance in the face of tragedies has turned to rage after the devastating explosion in Beirut's port, says Kim Ghattas, a senior fellow at ...
President Trump said Thursday he has re-imposed a tariff of 10 percent on some aluminum products imported from Canada, accusing the country of reneging on ...
US President Donald Trump has reimposed a 10% tariff on some Canadian aluminium products, saying it was done to protect US industry. Canada and the US ...
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will reimpose tariffs on aluminum imports from Canada, a move reignites trade tensions just a month after ...
The United States is negotiating the sale of at least four of its large sophisticated aerial drones to Taiwan for the first time, according to six U.S. sources familiar ...
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar's impending trip to Taiwan is more than just a friendly visit to learn about how the island successfully controlled ...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's governing party won a majority of Sri Lanka's parliamentary seats, the Election Commission announced Friday, bringing the ...
The brothers ruling Sri Lanka scored a landslide victory in parliamentary elections that could help President Gotabaya Rajapaksa push through contentious ...
Sri Lanka on Thursday began counting votes for a parliament election which President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's party is widely expected to win, cementing his grip ...
The US State Department has lifted its international travel advisory advising Americans against travelling during the coronavirus pandemic, stating it would now ...
The U.S. State Department lifted its advisory on avoiding international travel, put in place five months ago. The agency said Thursday in a news release that ...
The Department of State, in coordination with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Thursday lifted the Global Level 4 Health Advisory, citing ...
A majority of Americans say they support President Donald Trump and his administration's efforts to close the U.S. border, reduce immigration and ban asylum ...
Asylum seekers are set to be deported for the first time since coronavirus took hold in the UK, prompting concerns that the Home Office is “playing politics with ...
Defense Secretary Mark Esper and his Chinese counterpart lectured one another in a 90-minute call as the highest level U.S. delegation in four decades plans a ...
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper expressed concerns about Beijing's "destabilizing" activity near Taiwan and the South China Sea in a call with Chinese ...
CHINA has showcased missiles it dubs 'aircraft carrier killers' in a chilling warning after the United States sent USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan to the ...
CHINESE military forces are preparing themselves to defend against attacks from US bombers, as the People's Liberation Army (PLA) ramps up air defence ...
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been accused of sending a hit-squad to Canada in order to kill a former Saudi intelligence official.
A former top Saudi intelligence official who fell out with the Saudi Crown Prince is alleging that an assassination squad traveled from Saudi Arabia to Canada to ...
On July 4, 2018, three months before the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Interpol rejected Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's attempt to force ...
Saad Aljabri, a former top intelligence official, filed suit in Washington alleging that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent a team of agents to Canada to kill ...
As presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden spends this week at his home in Delaware, holding one-on-one meetings with roughly half-dozen ...
The job of the vice president hasn't gotten much respect over the years. Benjamin Franklin is rumored to have suggested that the title be renamed “His ...
My straightforward advice to Biden is this: Please pick a Black woman running mate based solely on her strong qualifications to be “president on Day One,” her ...
Seventy-five years ago today, on Aug. 6, 1945, the world erupted into a new era. A single B-29 Superfortress airplane, nicknamed Enola Gay, dropped a new ...
Survivors of the world's first atomic bombing gathered in diminished numbers near an iconic, blasted dome Thursday to mark the attack's 75th anniversary, many ...
The Justice Department has moved to seize property from a powerful Ukrainian oligarch, according to court filings released Thursday. That oligarch, Igor ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Just days after federal agents raided a Cleveland office building linked to a Ukrainian oligarch, prosecutors Thursday sought to seize $70 ...
The Justice Department on Thursday accused a Ukrainian oligarch who has been considered an ally of Ukraine's president of stealing billions of dollars from a ...
Ihor Kolomoisky allegedly stole so much money from PrivatBank that Ukraine's national bank had to give the institution a $5.5 billion bail out to 'to stave off ...
THE massive explosion which killed at least 100 people and left 4,000 injured in Lebanon's capital Beirut is feared to have been started by a reckless welder.
If Joe Biden chooses a short-listed Californian as his running mate — Sen. Kamala Harris or Rep. Karen Bass — the decision will have a significant impact on ...
The president of the United States needs to make tough decisions. Biden should show us he can do so by announcing his choice for a running mate — the ...
To the editor: It is hard to see Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris as truly hailing from California vis-a-vis the speculation of whether Joe Biden will pick her as the ...
Former “Love Island” host Caroline Flack took her own life after learning she was facing an assault trial — that she feared would end her career and put her at ...
Caroline Flack died by suicide because "she knew she would face the media, press, publicity — it would all come down upon her," a coroner in London ruled ...
London (CNN) British TV presenter Caroline Flack died by suicide after hearing she was definitely going to be prosecuted for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend ...
Tragic details about the days leading up to Love Island host Caroline Flack's death have been revealed. Caroline's mother Chris and twin sister Jodi addressed ...
Brian Hook, the administration's special representative for Iran, is leaving and will be replaced by Elliott Abrams, convicted of misleading Congress about the ...
Brian Hook, the State Department's special envoy for Iran and one of the few national security officials to survive the turmoil in the foreign policy team through ...
The Trump foreign policy team is racing the clock to establish facts on the ground on a range of issues. One key aim: to make it as difficult as possible for a ...
U.S. Special Representative for Iran Brian Hook is resigning from his role at the State Department, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday, and ...
Nearly 30 years ago, Hindu extremists armed with pickaxes tore down a 16th-century mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, sparking riots that killed ...
At the historic Bhoomi Pujan of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared the stage with two of the most important votaries of ...
Nearly 40000 people were arrested illegally crossing the US-Mexico border in July, part of a steady increase in the border arrests since April, according to newly ...
MINSK (Reuters) - President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday that Belarus had detained a number of people who possessed U.S. passports and were ...
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday ordered authorities to invite Russia and Ukraine's prosecutors to Minsk to resolve the case of a group ...
Sahar Fares, a 24-year-old paramedic, was planning her wedding. Instead, her family held her funeral after she died in the explosion that tore through Beirut.
A North Korean city placed in an “ultra-emergency state” over a suspected coronavirus case has been sent more than 550000 aid items, the country's state ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered officials to provide food and shelter for hundreds of families who lost their homes in floods triggered by heavy ...
The U.S. and South Korea plan to start their third major combined military exercise using computer simulations as early as next week, two years after President ...
President Trump's advisers were wary to talk to him about military options over fears he'd accidentally start a war, CNN's Jim Sciutto reported Thursday.
Washington (CNN) Amid escalating tensions with both North Korea and Iran, President Donald Trump's advisers hesitated to give him military options fearing the ...
Beirut was declared a "disaster city" by authorities on Wednesday, in the wake of a huge explosion in the port of the Lebanese capital that left at least 135 people ...
Residents of Beirut awoke to a scene of utter devastation on Wednesday, a day after a massive explosion at the port sent shock waves across the Lebanese ...
Lebanon is no stranger to turmoil and devastation. The small country straddles the geopolitical fault lines of the Middle East and endured a 15-year civil war that ...
There are some moments in a nation's history which are frozen forever. They may not be the worst catastrophes that have overwhelmed its people. Nor the most ...
When Mohamad first got the text message offering him up to $10 million for information about attempts to interfere with the U.S. election, he thought it was "some ...
The State Department on Wednesday night announced it would offer a $10 million reward to anyone who could provide information on individuals working with ...
With the 2020 election only a few months away, the US State Department is ramping up its efforts to prevent any interference through "certain illegal cyber ...
The State Department's Rewards for Justice program is offering a $10 million reward for information on anyone interfering in the U.S. elections at the direction of ...
It's not just seeds—Americans are receiving all kinds of unsolicited packages from China, containing items ranging from fake Ray-Ban sunglasses to a pair of ...
Some of the mystery seeds from China sprouting up in the mailboxes across the US have finally been identified — as harmless cooking ingredients, according to ...
Unsolicited seed packet shipments being received by residents in Hunterdon County should not be opened and must be reported immediately to the United ...
MAN who received one of the mystery seed packages from China planted them on his property and said they produced a "large white fruit". Several states have ...
Perhaps the seed scammers branched out. After reports across the country of mysterious packages of seeds arriving from China, residents from New York to ...
The city's expatriate community is shrinking, as new restrictions by China on speech and political activities and a tumultuous year of protests have diminished the ...
Foreign journalists in Hong Kong are facing "highly unusual" visa delays at a time of high tension between the US and China, a group representing international ...
The offer was presented as a favor to Hong Kong, a city struggling with a surge in coronavirus infections: a team of 60 medical officials from mainland China who ...
As Sino-American relations have reached new lows recently, the most visible reaction in China has been anger. President Trump's demand for a cut for the U.S. ...
CHINA has warned Donald Trump it will not let the US 'get in our way' when it comes to pursuing 'development and progress' in the latest development of ...
Members of Poland's parliament on Thursday used the swearing-in ceremony of President Andrzej Duda's to make a political statement, forming a rainbow with ...
Three people accused of hanging LGBT rainbow flags off statues in Warsaw have been arrested and charged. Polish police charged them with desecrating ...
When President Andrzej Duda of Poland was sworn in on Thursday for a second term in office after a bitterly divisive campaign in which he rallied support by ...
China condemned the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services' scheduled visit to Taiwan Wednesday, and said that "China firmly opposes any official ...
Heath and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar will lead a U.S. delegation to Taiwan in the coming days, marking the first cabinet member to visit in six years.
It should never be forgotten how much of Donald Trump's career has been based on his ability to obscure and defy reality. In the nineteen-eighties and early ...
Deborah Birx went to the brink this weekend — and then back again. The coronavirus task force coordinator took some time out of her vacation to tell the truth ...
Germany's health minister says authorities will require people arriving from countries considered high-risk to take coronavirus tests starting this weekend.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 1045 to 213067, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed ...
A third of US adults are dealing with mental health concerns during the Covid-19 pandemic, significantly more than other countries, the Commonwealth Fund ...
It may be no surprise that with 4.8 million infections and nearly 160,000 confirmed deaths from coronavirus in the U.S., Americans reported facing more mental ...
The British government says it won't be using 50 million face masks it bought for medics during the coronavirus outbreak because of concerns they might not be ...
Fifty million face masks bought by the UK for the National Health *Service* are being recalled because the straps aren't tight enough. Ayanda Capital supplied the ...
Fifty million face masks bought by the UK government in April will not be used in the NHS because of safety concerns. The government says the masks, which ...
Twitter will start labeling the accounts of media outlets affiliated with the governments of countries on the U.N. Security Council, it announced Thursday. The new ...
Twitter says it will no longer "amplify" tweets by state-controlled media organisations, by excluding them from its recommendation systems. The move makes ...
London (CNN Business) Twitter is introducing new labels to better identify accounts belonging to government officials and senior staff of state-backed media, the ...
Twitter has created labels for profiles belonging to government officials and state-run media entities to ensure that political reach is "earned not bought.".
Twitter Inc will label the accounts of state-affiliated media outlets, their senior staff and some key government officials, the company said in a blog post on ...
The Supreme Court orders house arrest as it investigates whether he had a role in a scheme to bribe witnesses in a case involving right-wing paramilitary death ...
Bogota (CNN) Former Colombian President, Álvaro Uribe has tested positive for coronavirus, just one day after the country's Supreme Court issued a house ...
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has tested positive for the coronavirus, just one day after being placed under house arrest by the ...
Chaos would be an understatement to describe the scene at May Abboud Melki's house in Beirut on Wednesday evening. Furniture was strewn about, the walls ...
After a massive explosion in Beirut left Lebanon in disarray, a video of a woman playing "Auld Lange Syne" on piano in her destroyed home has been circulating ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The chemicals that went up in flames in Beirut's deadliest peace-time explosion arrived in the Lebanese capital seven years ago on a ...
The captain of the ship linked to the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut has blamed Lebanese authorities for the disaster. The comments came in a ...
