BANGKOK (Reuters) - Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said on Thursday there was no timeframe for the assessment of the case of Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, a Saudi woman who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her.  The U.N. refugee agency has referred...

Vinicius Junior starred and Real Madrid steadied the ship as a 3-0 win over Leganes on Wednesday put them on the brink of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals. Vinicius, the 18-year-old Brazilian signed by Madrid last summer, capped an electric display at the Santiago Bernabeu with a...

A Chinese envoy on Wednesday accused Canada and its allies of "Western egotism and white supremacy" for demanding the immediate release of two Canadians held for alleged spying. In a letter published by The Hill Times newspaper, China's ambassador to Canada Lu Shaye also criticized the...

Former Disney animation chief John Lasseter, who resigned last year after acknowledging he made staff feel uncomfortable with unwanted hugs, has landed a new job at Skydance Media, the company said Wednesday. Lasseter, famous for transforming Pixar from a small graphics department at...

Ford and Volkswagen are preparing to announce a strategic partnership, including in areas such as self-driving and electric autos, a person with knowledge of the matter told AFP on Wednesday. The announcement could come Tuesday during this year's Detroit auto show, the person said....

U.S. President Donald Trump walked out of talks with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday over funding for a border wall with Mexico, and said on Twitter the White House meeting to end a government shutdown was "a total waste of time." U.S. President Donald Trump walked out of...

Iran said Wednesday that it would reciprocate after the European Union added two Iranian individuals and an Iranian intelligence unit to the bloc's terrorist list. EU ministers agreed Tuesday to add the names to the list and freeze their assets, effective from Wednesday, as the...

After being stranded at sea for almost three weeks with 49 migrants and refugees on board arrived in Malta on Wednesday. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on Wednesday that they will be re-distributed among eight European Union countries. The migrants, including a baby and several...

The governor of Kirkuk on Wednesday asked the central government in Baghdad to send military reinforcements to the province after members of a Kurdish political party raised Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) flags at a rally. Late Tuesday, Iraqi security forces in Kirkuk dispersed a...

Wednesday began five of the most crucial days ever for Britain's parliament as the debate on Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement resumed. Coming to the end of a road almost two-and-a-half years after British voters narrowly decided in 2016 to leave the EU, the Brexit...

Saudi Arabia is expected to announce a slight rise in its crude oil and gas reserves after being independently audited Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. Saudi Arabia's reserves of easily recoverable oil have long been the world's largest. For nearly 30...

The Kremlin said Wednesday that it expected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin soon, but that no date had yet been agreed. Russia and Turkey are both major players in the conflict in Syria and in September reached a...

Khartoum (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Tuesday blamed conspirators for violence during deadly anti-government protests, as an impoverished town held a "martyrs' rally" to honour those killed. Bashir, speaking at a military base near the town of Atbara where the first...

 Donald Trump’s national security adviser miscalculated if he thought he was going to dissuade Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from his planned offensive against U.S. allies in Syria. Erdogan rebuffed a meeting in Ankara on Tuesday with National Security Adviser John Bolton,...

Egypt and striker Mohamed Salah has been named African Footballer of the Year for the second successive year at the Confederation of African Football’s 2018 awards ceremony in Dakar on Tuesday. Just as he did 12 months ago, Salah beat fellow nominees including Liverpool FC teammate...

Boeing reported record commercial plane deliveries for the second straight year on Tuesday, although the figures missed the company's forecast. The aerospace giant, which has capitalized on rising global demand for air travel, reported deliveries of 806 planes for the year, up from 763...

A top European Union official warned Tuesday the bloc will have to take urgent action to fill a multi billion-euro black hole in the event of no-deal Brexit with Britain. In the event of a "disorderly" departure by Britain on March 29, "we would be short a figure in the billions of...

A cross-party group of lawmakers have called on the Metropolitan police to take a tougher stance on the verbal abuse and harassment of MPs outside parliament. Over 55 MPs wrote the scathing letter to Cressida Dick, the head of the Metropolitan police, after Conservative MP Anna Soubry...

Israeli settlers on Tuesday destroyed 30 olive groves in the town of Yatta in the southern West Bank, according to a local activist.  A group of settlers chopped down the trees east of Yatta, Ratib al-Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Resistance Committees in the city of Hebron,...

Moroccan security forces have dismantled a suspected Daesh cell in the North African country, according to the Interior Ministry on Tuesday.  In a statement, the ministry said three suspects had been detained for links to the Daesh terrorist group.  The suspects, aged...