U.S. President Donald Trump has privately discussed with aides and advisers the idea of the United States purchasing the island of Greenland as a way to expand U.S. territory, two sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday. The notion of purchasing the icy, autonomous Danish...

Yemen's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday it is suspending operations in the provisional capital Aden until calm is restored after separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates seized parts of the city over the weekend. "The Foreign Ministry regrets to announce that the work of its...

Flash floods caused by heavy rain have killed at least 46 people across Sudan in the past two weeks, a health official said Thursday. Health Ministry Undersecretary Suleiman Abdel Jabbar said the rain and floods have affected 16 of the country’s 18 states. Some 9,260 homes have been...

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) warned Thursday that calls by an Israeli government minister to change the status quo at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque would lead to a “religious war”. In a written statement released after a meeting in Ramallah, the PLO’s...