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Another appeals court to weigh Trump's revised travel ban

 For the second time in a week, government lawyers will try to persuade a federal appeals court to reinstate President Donald Trump's revised travel ban - and once again, they can expect plenty of questions Monday about whether the ban was designed to discriminate against Muslims. A...

$1.4B needed to help S.Sudanese refugees this year

The United Nations said Monday that $1.4 billion (1.3 billion euros) was needed this year alone to help the nearly two million people who have fled war and famine in South Sudan. The UNHCR refugee agency and the World Food Programme presented an updated response plan to the crisis in...

Militants kill two Iraqi police in anti-ISIS stronghold

Militants killed two police Monday in Haditha in a rare attack inside a town west of Baghdad that tribesmen and security forces successfully defended against repeated extremist assaults, officials said. When ISIS seized swathes of territory in Anbar and elsewhere in Iraq, Haditha was one of...

UK's Johnson plays down EU spat over military HQ

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson Monday downplayed differences with EU partners over the bloc's military ambitions, saying London supported their efforts to bolster defense cooperation. Reports Friday put Brexit-bound Britain in the dock for blocking the launch of an EU military...