London - Britain's electronic spy agency GCHQ tapped emails of journalists at some of the world's biggest media organisations, The Guardian reported on...
London - Britain's electronic spy agency GCHQ tapped emails of journalists at some of the world's biggest media organisations, The Guardian reported on...
Tokyo - Militants from the Islamic State group released a video Tuesday purporting to show two Japanese men they were holding. A masked...
Moscow - Two Russian performance artists were being held by police on Tuesday after throwing holy water at the Lenin Mausoleum on Red...
Iran unveils a memorial honoring Jewish heroes Tehran - It seems incongruous in Iran, where politicians chant "Death to Israel" and the Israeli...
Jerusalem - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe demanded on Tuesday that the Islamic State group immediately free two Japanese hostages unharmed after the...
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan addresses the media at the Presidential Palace in Ankara January 12, 2015 Istanbul - Turkey on Tuesday arrested 20...
Yangon--A senior US diplomat Tuesday criticised Myanmar's policies which impose severe restrictions on the Muslim Rohingya community in Rakhine, saying they "oppress" people...
Shinzo Abe Jerusalem--Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday he would honour a promise of $200 million in aid to countries affected by...
Jakarta--Investigators examining the cockpit voice recorder of a crashed AirAsia jet said Tuesday they were considering whether human error or problems with the...
Hamas security forces survey car hit in IAF strike Gaza City, --Unidentified assailants blew up the car of a Hamas security official in...
Israeli police detain an Arab Israeli Bedouin youth during clashes on January 19, 2015 that erupted in Rahat after the funeral of Sami...
Beirut---The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages unless it receives a $200 million ransom within 72 hours, but Tokyo vowed...
Kathmandu---Fighting broke out in Nepal's parliament Tuesday, with Maoist lawmakers throwing chairs and injuring four security officers as tensions ran high ahead of...
United Nations, United States---UN peacekeepers serving in the Golan saw drones flying before an Israeli air strike on Syria that killed an Iranian...
Grozny, Russia---The furious backlash against French magazine Charlie Hebdo's cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed rumbled on Monday with a huge rally in Chechnya,...
Federica Mogherini Brussels---EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini welcomed Monday Japan's higher profile role in regional and global security, although many of its...
Brussels---EU foreign ministers agreed Monday there would be no change in the bloc's Russia policy, including sanctions, as the union's diplomatic chief warned...
Ottawa---Canadian special forces exchanged gunfire with Islamic State fighters in Iraq in recent days, in the first confirmed ground battle between Western troops...