Paris: France's justice minister Francois Bayrou, a key ally of President Emmanuel Macron, told AFP Wednesday he was quitting the government, as his...
Paris: France's justice minister Francois Bayrou, a key ally of President Emmanuel Macron, told AFP Wednesday he was quitting the government, as his...
ERBIL, Iraq: U.S.-backed Iraqi forces said they began a push on Wednesday toward the mosque of Mosul, where Islamic State declared a self-styled...
COPENHAGEN: Three adults and a child are presumed dead after waves swamped a remote coastal village in northwestern Greenland over the weekend, police...
Miami: Weather monitors warned Wednesday of tornados and potentially deadly flash floods as Tropical Storm Cindy in the Gulf of Mexico headed towards...
Kecskemét, Hungary: Eleven men went on trial on Wednesday over the deaths of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck in Austria nearly...
Juba: A famine that was declared in parts of South Sudan four months ago is over, UN aid agencies said Wednesday, but extreme...
JAKARTA: Indonesia is set to approve a law allowing authorities to jail for up to 15 years citizens coming home after joining militant...
SINGAPORE: Extreme heat across large tracts of the Northern Hemisphere raised fears for crops in China, fuelled forest fires in Portugal and Russia's...
BRUSSELS: Belgian counter-terrorism police are investigating the motives of a suspected suicide bomber shot dead by troops guarding a Brussels railway station after...
Washington: Republican Karen Handel won a high-stakes, closely-watched special congressional election Tuesday, salvaging a seat in traditional conservative Georgia where Democrats had hoped...
KHARTOUM: Qamr al-Dawla Abdullah had never met his niece and nephew who grew up in Libya, where their father Yehia was killed fighting...
Astana, Kazakhstan: Internet providers in Kazakhstan have blocked access to the Washington-based Foreign Policy news website after it gave an unflattering review of...
Tokyo: Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market -- the world's biggest -- will be moved to a new location, the city's top official confirmed...
MOSUL: A French journalist has succumbed to wounds he sustained in a landmine explosion in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, according to the...
ROME/TUNUSIA: At least 126 people are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Libyan coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: At least two navy officers were killed and three others wounded when armed gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on them in...
KHARTOUM: A prominent Sudanese journalist declared a one-man strike Monday to protest the confiscation of his newspaper -- for the third consecutive day...
CAIRO: A military court on Monday sentenced four civilians to death after convicting them of committing “acts of violence” in Egypt’s northern Kafr...
