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Judgment day for Trump's revamped travel ban

President Donald Trump's revised travel ban underwent its first legal challenge in federal court Wednesday before a judge who could conceivably halt it a day before it is scheduled to take effect. The 90-minute hearing was held in Greenbelt, Maryland not far from Washington and Judge...

US won't participate in UN Right Council without reforms

 U.S.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the United States will not continue participating in the Human Rights Council unless the U.N. rights agency undergoes "considerable reform." He gave no time frame for reforms to take place, saying in a letter to eight non-governmental...

Car bomb kills 8, wounds dozens in Iraq's Tikrit city

Eight people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a crowded street in the Iraqi city of Tikrit Wednesday, a local official said. The car was parked in al-Atibaa Street ("Doctors Street" in English) in downtown Tikrit, which is often crowded as it has many clinics....

France plans to close another migrant camp

French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux said Wednesday that security forces would start dismantling another migrant camp on the north coast near the port of Dunkirk "as soon as possible" after clashes there. The number of people staying in the Grande-Synthe camp has swelled to about...