PARIS – World leaders with the power to make war but a duty to preserve peace solemnly marked the end of World War I’s slaughter 100...
MINDANAO – Despite Islamic State’s failure last year to establish a caliphate in the southern Philippine city of Marawi, foreign militants continue to flock to the...
DUBAI – Saudi Arabia dismissed on Saturday accusations that Jamal Khashoggi was ordered murdered by a hit squad inside its Istanbul consulate as “lies and baseless...
ALIAGA, Turkey – The Trump Administration has secured the release of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who flew out of Turkey late Friday after a Turkish court...
As other Southeast Asian countries saw their positions unchanged or up in a survey of expats, Thailand and the Philippines went in the opposition direction. This...
BANGKOK – The arrival of Chinese tourists this year are expected to drop for the first time in a decade, with the plunge causing the country’s...
LONDON – Life expectancy in Europe continues to increase but obesity and the growing proportion of people who are overweight risks reversing this trend, the...
GENEVA – The United Nations listed 38 “shameful” countries including China and Russia on Wednesday which it said had carried out reprisals or intimidation against...
GENEVA – A United Nations human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China...
LONDON – A British supporter of Islamic State who admitted to planning an attack on HRH Prince George was on Friday jailed for life. Husnain Rashid,...
BRUSSELS – EU leaders meet in Brussels for two days of talks on migration that German Chancellor Angela Merkel described as “make or break” for...
MOSCOW – The Syrian army will regain control of the country’s north by force if rebels there refuse to surrender, President Bashar al-Assad said in...
AUSTRIA – Chancellor Sebastian Kurz announced Friday that Austria will expel “several” foreign-funded imams and shut seven mosques in a crackdown on “political Islam.” Chancellor...
DOUMA, Syria – Syrian and Russian authorities prevented independent investigators from going to the scene of a suspected chemical attack, the head of the chemical watchdog...
BEIRUT – Suspected poison gas was used to attack the last remaining foothold for the Syrian opposition in the eastern suburbs of Damascus, killing at least...
– NARATHIWAT -Two German brothers who are riding their bikes around the world have arrived in Thailand after taking their journey to Turkey, Australia and Malaysia....
– BERLIN — A German court has convicted an Algerian man of supporting the Islamic State group for helping plan the smuggling of a would-be fighter...
– NEW DELHI – India’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill that seeks to criminalize “triple talaq“, a style of instant divorce used by...
– BRUSSELS – The European Union announced Thursday that it is taking the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to court for failing to accommodate their fair...
– WEST BANK – Palestinians closed schools and shops and called for protests in West Bank towns on Thursday, while the leader of the Muslim...