Four people, including prominent businessmen, have been arrested in Tunisia on suspicion of corruption and financing a wave of protests in the North African country, a senior official said Wednesday. The official, on condition of anonymity, told AFP that businessmen Chafik Jarraya, Yassine...

China said on Wednesday no one had the right to bring chaos to the Korean peninsula, a day after it pushed for full implementation of U.N. sanctions against neighboring North Korea for its missile and nuclear tests and called for dialogue. The United States has been trying to persuade China,...

The World Health Organization should expand its donor base to better withstand the "shock" from planned deep budget cuts in Washington, Tedros Adhanom, the newly elected agency head, said Wednesday. A day after he became the first African to head the WHO, the former Ethiopian health minister...

Iraq's Interior Ministry says it has launched an investigation into allegations of human rights violations perpetrated by its forces fighting ISIS in Mosul. The allegations were first reported by Germany's Der Spiegel magazine last weekend. Read More: Unknown assailants kill FSA...