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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump bitingly decried the rising movement to pull down monuments to Confederate icons Thursday, declaring the nation is seeing "the...

BARCELONA: A white van jumped the sidewalk in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district on Thursday, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and...

Paris: Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, said she will adopt the role of first lady, but only in an...

Tehran:  Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei joined the international criticism of race-related violence in the United States on Wednesday with a mocking...

BEIRUT:  Lebanon’s parliament abolished on Wednesday a law that absolves rapists if they marry their victims, joining other Arab states that have repealed...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a “wise” decision not to fire missiles towards the...

Freetown:  Sierra Leone's president issued a desperate appeal for help on Tuesday, a day after flooding ravaged the country's capital, killing more than...

Algiers:  Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sacked Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Tuesday, less than three months after appointing him, according to a presidential...

JOHANNESBURG: South African police were negotiating with Grace Mugabe’s lawyers on Tuesday to get the wife of the Zimbabwean president to turn herself...

Manila:  Philippine police killed at least 21 people in a series of raids near the capital Manila, in the bloodiest night of President...

KISUMU, Kenya: A six-month-old girl has died in Kenya, her doctor told Reuters on Tuesday, after her parents said she was teargassed and...

Gorakhpur, India: Mohammad Zahid battled exhaustion to keep a manual pump pushing air into his five-year-old daughter but slowly the life went out...

SEOUL/WASHINGTON: North Korea’s leader has delayed a decision on firing missiles towards Guam while he waits to see what the United States does...

Kabul: The Taliban published an open letter to US President Donald Trump on Tuesday warning him against sending more American forces to Afghanistan....

New York: The chief executives of Merck, Intel and Under Armour resigned Monday from a White House advisory panel on manufacturing after President...

Washington:  Merck & Co Inc Chief Executive Kenneth Frazier (pictured) resigned from US President Donald Trump’s American Manufacturing Council yesterday, saying he was...

JERUSALEM: Billionaire Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz and another suspect were remanded in custody for four days on Monday after being arrested in a...

Geneva: More than 600,000 displaced Syrians have returned to their homes since the beginning of the year, with most of them heading to...