Yemen’s Houthi rebels said late Friday night that they were halting drone and missile attacks against Saudi Arabia, one week after they claimed responsibility for a…

Puerto Rico faces slow recovery 2 years after Hurricane Maria

Iraqi officials: 12 dead in minibus blast near Shiite holy city of Karbala, one of the biggest attacks since IS defeat

Twitter says it’s taken down 1,019 accounts in Ecuador, saying they’re mostly fake and aimed at undermining President Lenín Moreno

Iraqi security officials say an explosion in a minibus outside the Shiite holy city of Karbala has killed 8 people

Iraqi security officials say an explosion in a minibus outside the Shiite holy city of Karbala has killed 8 people

Syrian opposition activists say anti-government protesters have captured at least 2 army checkpoints in the oil-rich eastern province of Deir el-Zour

“The brilliant US air defense systems could not repel an attack,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Friday.

The leader of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has called on Saudi Arabia to stop its war in Yemen, or else it will face more attacks on…

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez says the U.S. expulsion of two Cuban diplomats and energy shortages across the island are part of a Trump administration offensive…

The former TV star was elected president this year.

Families from the Himalayan region of Kashmir have traveled nearly 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) in sweltering heat to meet relatives being held in an Indian jail…

The president is already planning for a post-election role as chief interlocutor with the Taliban.

Archaeologists in northern Greece have found more than 200 new graves in a vast ancient cemetery that was plundered in antiquity but still retained rich finds,…

US military says it has carried out an airstrike against the Islamic State group in Libya, 1st US airstrike in the country in over a year

President Donald Trump says his administration is imposing additional sanctions on Iran following last weekend’s attack on Saudi oil facilities, which the administration has blamed on…

Notre Dame Cathedral has far to go to recover from a destructive fire but a hardy copper rooster that once topped the spire is serving as…

Japan has announced it will accept South Korea’s request for joint talks leading to arbitration by the World Trade Organization after Seoul filed a complaint with…

A fuel shortage blamed on the Trump Administration has turned filling a tank in Cuba into an ordeal even for a country used to waiting in…

Nigeria’s military accuses international aid group of aiding Boko Haram, which group denies

The images cast an uncomfortable shadow over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carefully honed image as a progressive politician with an inclusive, feminist agenda.

The images were published just weeks before Canadian elections.

France’s president says Paris “is fully committed” to implementing the decisions taken during a conference last year to help Lebanon improve its economy

Thomas Cook, one of the world’s oldest and largest travel companies, is facing a race against time to stay afloat

Nigeria police arrest main suspect in apparent serial killings that sparked women’s protests

“I have the feeling that politicians are often just [focusing on] the next vote,” one protester said on Friday.

Saudi Arabia takes journalists to site of missile-and-drone attack on facility at heart of kingdom’s oil industry

UN’s humanitarian agency says 124 suspected cholera cases in Sudan with seven deaths

Ethiopia says latest Egypt proposal on massive Nile dam project hurts country’s ‘sovereignty’

Middle East US envoy meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu days after elections leave the Israeli leader’s political future in doubt

Saud al-Qahtani, a former adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was sanctioned by the United States last year for his role in the operation…

The US-based Egyptian activist whose Facebook page helped ignite the 2011 uprising that brought down longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak has said that authorities arrested his brother…

Philippine health officials have confirmed a second case of polio in a 5-year-old child a day after declaring the country’s first outbreak in nearly two decades…

English soccer authorities say they have had a “productive and positive” meeting with representatives from Twitter in the wake of black players receiving racist abuse on…

A Russian actor sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison for allegedly assaulting a police officer has been released from custody following a massive outcry.

Pakistan’s military says a roadside bomb has killed two soldiers, when it struck an army vehicle in the country’s northwest near the Afghan border

Kuwait says it has raised its security level at its ports given ongoing regional tensions following an attack on Saudi Arabia

Security forces have set up roadblocks on major highways leading into the Algerian capital to stop citizens with “malicious” designs from taking part in a weekly…

Turkish coast guards have rescued 14 migrants and their Turkish smuggler after their rubber boat sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast while trying to reach Greece

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has asked lawmakers to delay a vote on a proposed new criminal code because of public opposition

Google is planning to invest 3 billion euros to expand its data centers across Europe in the next two years

The case against Todd A. Hohn threatens to further strain ties between Washington and Beijing amid trade dispute.

Cambodia’s government has announced it is raising the minimum wage for the garment industry, the country’s biggest export earner

Lebanese authorities have released a Lebanese-Australian man detained in over an alleged bomb plot

A Philippine official says haze blown by monsoon winds from Indonesia’s forest fires has started to affect some regions in the western Philippines and raised concerns…

Nasi Manu is on the brink of an emotional return after battling cancer and coming through emergency surgery and months of chemotherapy to get a chance…

North Korea has praised President Donald Trump for saying Washington may pursue an unspecified “new method” in nuclear negotiations with Pyongyang

Chinese spokesman says detained FedEx pilot under investigation on suspicion of ‘smuggling weapons and ammunition.’

Harry and Meghan make 1st official tour as family in Africa, starting in troubled South Africa

Iran may have wanted to jolt global energy markets and win leverage ahead of any negotiations, analysts say.

Paris is deploying thousands of police to protect landmarks and government buildings as yellow vest groups, unions and environmental activists plan a multitude of weekend protests

Two reporters for the U.S.-based Bloomberg news agency have appeared in court accused of trying to undermine Turkey’s economic stability over a story they wrote on…

Taipei loses second ally in a week as Beijing picks off the democratic island’s diplomatic partners in an effort to pressure the government of Tsai Ing-wen.

Activists in Zimbabwe say doctor whose alleged abduction led to days of protests is freed

As US, Israel step up efforts to contain Iran, countries in Tehran’s orbit feel the heat

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s wary of being definitive about how many times he’s worn brown or blackface because he didn’t recall the recent…

In Israel’s secular heartland, the role of religion in daily life played a central role in this week’s deadlocked election

The Pacific island nation of Kiribati has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the second country to do so this week

The German government is scrambling to agree a package of measures for tackling global warming, as protesters prepare to stage rallies across the country demanding decisive…

The International Organization for Migration says a Sudanese man died from a gunshot wound in Libya when a group of migrants resisted being sent to a…

Scientists from more than a dozen nations are preparing to launch the biggest and most complex research expedition ever attempted in the central Arctic

The Pacific island nation of Kiribati has cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan, the second country to do so this week

A lawyer for a North Korean man facing potential extradition from Malaysia to the United States to face money laundering charges says the request is baseless…

Trump is walking a seemingly contradictory line on the Middle East, empowering a foe willing to test his resolve.

Honduras is battling an especially deadly outbreak of dengue fever, with at least 135 people dead from dengue there this year, nearly two-thirds of them children

Australia’s acting prime minister has described ongoing climate rallies as “just a disruption” that should have been held on a weekend to avoid inconveniencing communities

Thousands of protesters are gathering at rallies around Australia as a day of worldwide demonstrations begins ahead of a U.N. climate summit in New York

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, a champion of diversity and immigration, is under fire over a brownface photo

As tensions rise, Iran says its president and foreign minister have received US visas for annual UN meeting in New York

Iran says its foreign minister will attend next week’s United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, amid doubts about whether the U.S. would give him…

“Less than a year ago he was completely non-factor in the political system and now he’s a few steps away from entering the prime minister’s office.”

The leaders of Germany’s governing parties are meeting Thursday to thrash out the final details of a plan to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, a…

Syrian state TV reports a drone was destroyed over a suburb of the capital Damascus

An environmental group says that forest fires have consumed more than 3.1 million hectares in just over a month in Bolivia, including areas in the South…

The court is considering whether Johnson broke the law in suspending Parliament.

A group of over 200 investment funds called on businesses to play a more active role in halting the Amazon’s degradation.

From boomtown to ghost town: Maracaibo, once a booming metropolis, is suffering the worst of the socialist nation’s collapse.

Emergency workers caught an unusual prowler lurking around rooftops in northern France – a black panther

Video of a third incident emerged Thursday. The Canadian prime minister was already facing a tough reelection battle.

An Irish court has rejected a challenge by environmental activists who said the government’s plans for tackling climate change don’t go far enough

Tens of thousands of dead fish have been found on the banks of a lake in northern Greece after high temperatures and drought conditions caused a…

One family’s plight suggests wider efforts by Beijing to break ties between mostly-Muslim Xinjiang and its diaspora.

Not only did Mexico fail to stop a French auction house’s sale of about 120 pre-Hispanic artifacts, many sold for well above their estimated prices

Pentagon diverts hundreds of millions allocated by Congress for restoration of Camp Santiago to construction of barriers on southern border under emergency authorities.

An Amnesty report offered evidence of mistreatment of people in police custody and called for an independent investigation into use of force.

Senior UN official says humanitarian situation in last rebel stronghold in Syria is ‘alarming’

Almost a year after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia retains little international sympathy.

The European Union’s top energy official says he’s optimistic that Russia and Ukraine can conclude a new gas transit agreement by the end of the year…

Robert C. O’Brien spent the last year as the State Department’s top hostage negotiator. While some Americans have been brought home under his watch, several others…

Robert C. O’Brien spent the last year as the State Department’s top hostage negotiator. Now he’ll have a whole new portfolio.

His downfall sent a wave of revolutionary fervor coursing through Egypt, Bahrain, Iran, Libya and Jordan.

Imam at Liberian boarding school that burned says toll could rise above the 27 reported

The most important rule of the modern monarchy is that the queen shouldn’t take sides.

Tunisia’s autocratic ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, toppled in 2011, has died in exile in Saudi Arabia, according to his lawyer. He was 83.

Israeli police say security guards at a checkpoint near Jerusalem were in “immediate danger” when they shot and killed a Palestinian woman carrying a knife, after…

Lawyer: Tunisia’s former ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, toppled in 2011, dies in exile in Saudi Arabia

Mexico is marking the Sept. 19 anniversaries of 2017 earthquakes that killed more than 500 people and a devastating 1985 temblor that left at least 9,500…

Yemeni security officials say an explosion targeting a government military convoy has killed five Yemeni troops and wounded 13, many of them Saudi soldiers

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Washington is taking back $100 million intended for an Afghan energy infrastructure project, citing unacceptably high levels of corruption…

Archaeologists say pre-Hispanic vessels over 1,400 years old have been found in the center of Bolivia’s Tiwanaku ruins