Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Imran Khan on Monday to congratulate him on his party’s victory in the Pakistan general election, with both men discussing regional peace. It was their…
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China offered Britain talks on a post-Brexit free trade deal on Monday, reaching out to London as Beijing remains mired in an increasingly bitter trade war with Washington, even as a senior…
The publisher of the New York Times says he took US President Donald Trump to task for “deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric” that is “not just divisive but increasingly dangerous” when the two…
India on Monday effectively stripped four million people in Assam of citizenship, sparking fears of mass deportations of Muslims from the northeastern state.
The draft National Register…
Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence, has been hospitalized after suffering heart problems.
Authorities on Sunday moved Sharif from…
Fire officials in Greece raised the death toll from a wildfire that raged through a coastal area east of Athens to 91 and reported that 25 people were missing Sunday, six days after Europe’s…
Zimbabweans voted on Monday for a new leader in a too-close-to-call election, the first since independence from white-minority rule in 1980 that does not feature Robert Mugabe's name on the…
US President Donald Trump faces potential legal and political danger if it is proven he knew in advance about a meeting his son and campaign aides had with Russians said to be promising dirt on…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned the US that sanctions would not force Ankara to “step back” after US President Donald Trump threatened to punish Turkey if a US pastor was not…
Two children and their great-grandmother were killed in the massive Carr Fire in Northern California’s Shasta County, according to NBC Bay Area, which confirmed the news with a family member.
Polls closed in Cambodia’s contentious national election on Sunday with rights groups saying the vote was neither free nor fair in the absence of any significant challenger to Prime Minister Hun…
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi on Sunday suspended his electricity minister over a power crisis and poor services, following weeks of protests against chronic power outages. In a statement…
Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi has been released from Israeli prison after completing an eight-month sentence in a case that sparked international condemnation.
Tamimi broke down…
An Egyptian court has sentenced 75 people to death for participating in a 2013 protest against the overthrow of the country’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi.
A powerful storm slammed into central Japan on Sunday, bringing heavy rains as it churned across western areas already devastated by floods and landslides.
Typhoon Jongdari, packing…
Voting started slowly Sunday as people in Mali headed to the polls to vote for a president amid increasing attacks by a number of extremist groups linked to al-Qaeda and the self-styled Islamic…
A powerful earthquake has struck a popular tourist destination in Indonesia, killing at least 14 people. The 6.4 magnitude quake hit the central island of Lombok just before 7 a.m. local time (…
Rarely has an RSVP been so complicated. US President Donald Trump is open to visiting Moscow—if he gets a formal invitation from Vladimir Putin, the White House said. Russian President Putin…
Nine people were reportedly missing as a monster wildfire in northern California burned unchecked on Saturday after it killed two firefighters, destroyed hundreds of structures and sent…
More than 1,500 people have died so far in 2018 trying to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said, adding that this is the…
An Armenian court ordered former president Robert Kocharyan detained on Friday on charges of usurping power, his lawyer said. Kocharyan, who served as Armenia’s second president from 1998 to…
Zimbabwe goes to the polls on Monday in its first election since Robert Mugabe was ousted last year, with allegations mounting of voter fraud and predictions of a disputed result.
Imran Khan’s party said it has begun talks with independents and small parties to form a coalition government after a resounding triumph in Pakistan’s general election, as rival parties planned…
South Africa's former president Jacob Zuma appeared at the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday on corruption charges relating to a $2.5 billion arms deal in the late 1990s, but a judge…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that a new European Commission is needed with a new approach to migration policy, adding that the days of the current EU executive are "…
