Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began her term as the youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress with a bang this week by proposing to tax the ultra-rich at 60 or 70 percent. The daughter of working-class parents, the 29-year-old New Yorker was following up on her campaign promise....

An 18-year-old Saudi woman seeking asylum was denied entry to Thailand and held in Bangkok's airport, a Thai official said Sunday. Rahaf Mohammad M. Alqunun "ran away from her family to avoid marriage and she is concerned she may be in trouble returning to Saudi Arabia," Thailand's...

Egypt's Interior Ministry said a policeman was killed as he was trying to defuse an explosive device near a church in a residential Cairo district. The ministry said the blast late Saturday also wounded the commander of the bomb squad and another policeman. The device was in a suitcase...

The Taliban will not attend planned peace talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia this month, and want to shift the venue to Qatar, Taliban officials said Sunday, seeking to fend off Riyadh's push to include the Afghan government in talks. The upcoming negotiations, the fourth in a...