Supporters and opponents of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump have clashed in the city of San Diego in California.Police declared a gathering outside the city’s convention centre unlawful and made 35 arrests, as stones and water bottles were thrown.Mr Trump…
Workers at French nuclear power stations are due to down tools on Thursday amid growing industrial action over controversial labour reforms.The CGT union said staff at 16 of France’s 19 nuclear plants had voted for a one-day strike.The government said…
President Barack Obama said Wednesday he plans to use his historic visit to Hiroshima with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reflect on the suffering of war and the need to take steps to prevent it. Abe said he had…
The Afghan Taliban have announced a new leader to replace Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike.In a statement, the Taliban acknowledged Mansour’s death for the first time and named his successor as Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.Analysts…
Dhaka- The United States has said India has provided the world with an excellent model of how a large power can peacefully resolve territorial and maritime disputes with its smaller neighbors.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has announced the start of a military operation to retake Falluja from so-called Islamic State (IS).”Zero hour for the liberation of Falluja has arrived. The moment of great victory has drawn near,” he said, adding…
Leaked flight data showing trouble in the cockpit and smoke in a plane lavatory are bringing into focus the chaotic final moments of EgyptAir Flight 804, including a three-minute period before contact was lost as alarms on the Airbus 320…
Search crews found floating human remains, luggage and seats from the doomed EgyptAir jetliner Friday but face a potentially more complex task in locating bigger pieces of wreckage and the black boxes vital to determining why the plane plunged into…
Egyptian air and naval forces have found some of the passengers’ “personal belongings” and debris of EgyptAir flight 804, which crashed while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo, the army said Friday. The debris was found around…
Arab and Islamic nations are demanding that the United Nations remove a panel from an Israeli exhibition that calls Jerusalem “the spiritual and physical capital of the Jewish people.” A letter from the Palestinian U.N. mission to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon…
Taiwan’s new independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen tread carefully around the thorny issue of relations with China in her inaugural address Friday, emphasizing the importance of two decades of growing exchanges without mentioning the one-China policy fundamental to Beijing. Tsai said…
Investigators have discovered a “last testament” written by a key surviving suspect in the March bombings in Brussels, French media say.The text, found in a computer left in a rubbish bin, has been attributed to Mohamed Abrini, the “man in…
Presumptive Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte says he will offer Cabinet posts to communist rebels, move to amend the constitution to give more power to the provinces, and reimpose the death penalty, in some of his first policy pronouncements since winning…
Presidential candidate Donald Trump says he may have a poor relationship with British Prime Minister David Cameron in light of his criticism of Trump’s call for all Muslims to be temporarily banned from entering the United States. London, UNB News…
Tens of thousands of French well-wishers waved revoir to the largest cruise ship in the world as it set sail on its maiden voyage to the U.K. after 32 months in a French shipyard.
Egyptian officials say a Cairo court has sentenced 51 people to two years in prison for taking part in protests last month.
German authorities say the country has recorded its first case of sexual transmission of the Zika virus.
Three key editors at top Russian media holding firm RBC said Friday they have resigned amid a flurry of probes and police raids around the company.
Brazil’s Senate voted Thursday to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, a move that temporarily removes her from office while a trial is conducted. Rousseff is accused of using accounting tricks to hide budget deficits and bolster an embattled government. Rousseff has…
Iran will not send pilgrims to Saudi Arabia this year for the annual hajj pilgrimage, an Iranian official announced Thursday, the latest sign of tensions between the two Mideast powers after a disaster during the event last year killed at…
Three people were killed Tuesday and 42 others wounded when a car bomb attack blamed on Kurdish militants struck a police vehicle in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, officials said.The armoured minibus was carrying detainees accused of “terror” crimes when…
The United States tried Monday to move past localized, short-term cease-fires in Syria by announcing that an enduring, nationwide truce would be restored. Yet that new approach was immediately called into doubt as Syria’s military extended only a local cease-fire,…
The Pentagon says a top Islamic State leader in Iraq’s Anbar province has been killed by a coalition airstrike. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook says Abu Wahib and three others were killed when their vehicle was struck on May 6…
Alberta premier’s declared Canada’s oil sands city saved and said a plan will be put together within two weeks so 88,000 residents forced to evacuate can return to their homes. At least two neighborhoods in Fort McMurray were scenes of…
More than a dozen members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards were killed this week during an attack by militants in northern Syria in what shows Tehran’s deep involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Health authorities say they’ve identified the first case in Spain of the birth defect microcephaly in the fetus of a pregnant woman infected with the Zika virus. The health department for the northeastern region of Catalonia said the woman traveled…
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced his resignation on Thursday, paving the way for the country’s president to pursue a tighter trip on power. “I decided that for the unity of the (ruling party) a change of chairman would be…
Ted Cruz has announced he is ending his campaign for the US Republican presidential nomination, after losing heavily to Donald Trump in the Indiana primary.Mr Trump, a New York businessman who is unpopular with many in his own party, is…
British Foreign Office Minister Baroness Anelay has said promoting freedom of the press and the right to access information is not just the right thing to do; it is also the smart thing to do.
Police detained three men for questioning Tuesday in the rape and murder of a law student whose body was found mutilated in southern India, officials said.