British police said Monday they had arrested nine people after a "brutal" attack on a teenage asylum seeker involving a group up to 20 assailants in south London. Detectives, who are treating the incident as a hate crime, said the 17-year-old Kurdish Iranian boy was left with serious head...

South Korea's Lotte Group will continue to invest in its China business despite diplomatic tensions over the deployment of a U.S. missile defense system, a Lotte executive said Monday, denying rumors it wants to scale back there. Chinese authorities closed dozens of Lotte retail stores...

U.S. President Donald Trump meets his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Washington Monday, welcoming a strongman leader who has faced harsh criticism for his human rights record. For Sisi, the first foreign leader to congratulate Trump following his surprise election victory, the...

 An international human rights group Monday accused Israel of barring foreign researchers from entering the Gaza Strip to document abuses, saying the restrictions call into question Israel's stated commitment to investigating possible rights violations. In a 47-page report, Human Rights...