Cristiano Ronaldo delivered the biggest return yet on Juventus's multi-million euro investment with an incredible hat-trick that rescued their Champions League dream against Atletico Madrid. The Portuguese star made light work of the much-vaunted Atletico defense, condemning the Spaniards,...

North Korea has “apparently almost completed” physical restoration of a rocket launch site, Seoul claimed on Wednesday. According to a report in Korean news agency Yonhap, South Korea's Defense Ministry in a report said that it was “unclear whether the Dongchang-ri test site is...

Senior Israeli officials on Wednesday delivered a detailed critique of a UN probe that accused its soldiers of possible war crimes in Gaza, saying investigators ignored key evidence, notably over the role of Hamas. Last month, the UN Independent Commission of Inquiry on the protests in the...

Iran's Hassan Rouhani met Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Iraq's Najaf on Wednesday, an AFP photographer reported, in the first encounter between an Iranian president and the country's chief Shiite cleric. Sistani famously called Iraqis to arms against the Islamic State group in 2014, giving...