The U.S. dispute with China over a ban on tech giant Huawei is spilling over to Europe, the company's biggest foreign market, where some countries are also starting to shun its network systems over data security concerns. Some European governments and telecom companies are following the...

On the Giza Plateau outside Cairo, thousands of Egyptians are laboring in the shadow of the pyramids to erect a monument worthy of the pharaohs. The Grand Egyptian Museum has been under construction for well over a decade and is intended to showcase Egypt's ancient treasures while...

The federal government is expected to remain partially shut down past Christmas. The standoff over President Donald Trump's demand for $5 billion to build a border wall with Mexico deepened on Saturday. Democrats are rejecting Trump's demand as costly and ineffective, and any agreement...

The Trump administration's decision to make asylum seekers wait in Mexico while their cases wind through clogged U.S. courts was announced with crucial details still unknown — a move that creates uncertainty along the border and possibly an incentive for people to cross illegally before the...

At least 168 people died, hundreds injured when a tsunami -- likely triggered by a volcanic eruption -- hit Indonesia's Sunda Strait Saturday night, according to the country’s national disaster agency.  Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the National Disaster Management Agency,...

Executions in Saudi Arabia rose significantly in the first eight months after Mohammed bin Salman became deputy crown prince, a London-based human rights organization said. According to Reprieve, 133 people were executed between June 2017 and March 2018, nearly twice as many as the 67...

Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a member of the Saudi royal family, died on Saturday at the age of 88, according to Saudi news channel Al-Arabiya. His death was confirmed by his son Prince Abdulaziz bin Talal on Twitter adding that condolences will be received for three days starting Sunday....

The head of a UN mission tasked with monitoring Yemen’s ceasefire in the port city of Al-Hudaydah arrived in Aden on Saturday, according to a local source. Patrick Cammaert, a retired Dutch general, arrived aboard UN plane from the Jordanian capital Amman, a source at the Aden airport...

A driver was accidentally killed on Friday in the fifth week of the Yellow Vest protests in the southern French city of Perpignan, bringing the total number of people killed since the start of the protests to 10, local media reported. The 36-year-old driver died after his car crashed...

Demonstrations continued in Sudan for a fourth day on Saturday over the deteriorating economic conditions in the country.   Protests broke out in Aba Island and Er-Rahad in northern Sudan and in the southern town of Berber, according to local residents.   Eyewitnesses...

At least six people were killed and others wounded when a suicide car bombing targeted a security checkpoint near the presidential palace in Mogadishu on Saturday morning, officials said. "What we know about the attack is that a suicide car bomb blast targeted one of our security...

An 18-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli forces died of his wounds Saturday, the fourth fatality from protests along the Gaza border a day earlier, health officials in the Hamas-run enclave said. Ayman Shehr was shot in the stomach in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza, health ministry...

Pope Francis vowed Friday that the Catholic Church will “never again” cover up clergy sex abuse and demanded that priests who have raped and molested children turn themselves in. Francis dedicated his annual Christmas speech to the Vatican bureaucracy to abuse - evidence that a year of...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is to ban flights in and out of the country by Iran’s Mahan Air, which is under U.S. sanctions over allegations it ferries troops and supplies into Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad, a newspaper reported on Friday. Bild said the German government...

A U.S. aircraft carrier has sailed into the Arab Gulf, becoming the first in the region since President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal earlier this year. The December 21 arrival of the USS John C. Stennis came amid repeated threats by Iranian officials to...

French police arrested 14 Yellow Vest protesters late Thursday when a group of protesters blocked a car factory in the east of the country, local media reported. The protesters blocked the entrance and the exit of a car factory in the eastern city of Pfastatt. Police...

Spain looks for ways to end the Catalan conflict, as pro-independence protests paralyze life in Barcelona, a government spokeswoman said on Friday. Isabel Celaa, spokeswoman for the Spanish government, said Spain wants to open dialogues with Catalonia to end the conflict....

The Israeli army says it has opened fire on a car that broke through a West Bank checkpoint, killing one of the Palestinian passengers. The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the man as Qasim Abbasi, 17. His cousin, Mohammed Abbasi, told The Associated Press that he and Qasim were...

 A U.S. Air Force veteran has raised nearly $7 million so far to help pay for the construction of President Donald Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Brian Kolfage, a triple amputee and Purple Heart recipient, launched a campaign on the online crowdfunding platform GoFundMe...

U.S. President Donald Trump is planning a "substantial" drawdown of American forces from Afghanistan, The Wall Street Journal said Thursday.  The Journal reported that over 7,000 American troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan, around half of the size of the U.S. presence in the...