The German government says one of its citizens held in Turkey has been released, but must remain in the country. The foreign ministry's announcement Friday follows the release last week of German journalist Deniz Yucel, who had been detained in Turkey for over a year. Yucel was held on...

Myanmar's parliament has approved a budget of about $15 million for the construction of a fence and related projects along the border with Bangladesh in Rakhine state, from which about 700,000 members of its persecuted ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority have fled violence since last August....

President Donald Trump said Friday he is launching the "largest-ever" set of sanctions against North Korea. "Today I am announcing that we are launching the largest-ever set of new sanctions on the North Korean regime," Trump said in excerpts of a speech he was to deliver later on...

The recent natural gas agreement on Monday between Israel and Egypt is more symbolic than viable with the aim of fabricating a gas market in Egypt to send a message that Jordan is not Israel's only market in the region, according to the director of hydrocarbons at the Paris-based Mediterranean...