A Turkish media report says Turkey has begun construction of a wall along the country's frontier with Iran, mimicking the Turkish barrier along the Syrian border. The private Dogan news agency said the governor of Agri province, Suleyman Elban, inspected the construction of the security wall...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani presented his cabinet to parliament for a vote of confidence on Tuesday, keeping in place the chief architect of Tehran's nuclear accord with global powers. In his first term, Rouhani championed an agreement with the United States and five other powers in...

Hong Kong has closed more than a dozen beaches after a palm oil spill washed foul-smelling, Styrofoam-like clumps ashore, the latest major environmental disaster to blight the territory's waters. The Chinese-controlled city closed two more beaches in the south of Hong Kong island on Tuesday,...

Venezuelan security forces have wielded excessive force to suppress protests, killing dozens and have arbitrarily detained 5,000 people since April, including 1,000 still in custody, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday. In preliminary findings based on 135 interviews...