An elite group of North Korean hackers has been identified as the source of a wave of cyberattacks on global banks that has netted "hundreds of millions" of dollars, security researchers said Wednesday. A report by the cybersecurity firm FireEye said the newly identified group dubbed APT38...

Some 1,600 survivors from Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami were whisked to safety by a Navy warship Wednesday, providing much-needed relief for a lucky few after five days marked by shortages and grief. The KRI Makassar docked at the devastated city of Palu in central Sulawesi to take...

Russian senators on Wednesday approved a deeply controversial bill to raise the state pension age as the Kremlin indicated President Vladimir Putin could sign it into law soon. The upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, passed the bill that had sparked rare street protests...

French career criminal Redoine Faïd, who made a Hollywood-esque helicopter jailbreak in July, was arrested in the Oise region north of Paris early Wednesday, according to French officials. A seasoned armed robber, nicknamed the "jailbreak king", Faïd was apprehended in the northern...

At least seven Palestinians were injured Tuesday when the Israeli army fired on peaceful demonstrators in Gaza. The victims were wounded by live bullets, according to information gathered from a local hospital. Four of them were injured in the eastern part of Jabalia camp while...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will head to Pyongyang to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, the State Department confirmed Tuesday. The trip will be a part of a larger tour for the diplomat who is also scheduled to visit South Korea, Japan and China. State Department...

Friends and relatives of Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran journalist from Saudi Arabia who has recently become a vocal critic of the kingdom’s leadership, said they were worried about his safety on Tuesday after losing contact with him during his visit to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul....

Moderate Kurdish candidate Barham Saleh swept to the post of president of Iraq Tuesday evening in a parliamentary vote pitting Kurdish heavyweights against each other for the first time following an ill-fated independence referendum. Saleh routed his main rival Fuad Hussein with 219...

Online retail giant Amazon announced Tuesday it would raise its starting wage for US workers to $15 an hour, amid long-standing criticism of low pay, and advocate for a higher minimum wage nationwide. The pay raise will apply to 250,000 employees, starting November 1, and to the more...

The World Health Organization said Tuesday it was helping Yemeni authorities with a second round of vaccination against cholera in three hard-hit districts, as cases surged across the war-ravaged country. More than 2,500 people have died of the waterborne infection since the worst...

Germany will next year end its reconnaissance and air-to-air refueling missions that are part of U.S.-led operations against Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, the government decided Tuesday, a document seen by Reuters showed. Germany, whose Nazi past makes military action a sensitive...

Three researchers Tuesday shared the Nobel Physics Prize for inventions in the field of laser physics which have paved the way for advanced precision instruments used in industry and medicine, the jury said. Arthur Ashkin of the United States won one half of the prize, while Gerard...

At least seven people were killed in a suicide attack on an Afghan election campaign rally Tuesday, an official said, in the latest violence ahead of this month's legislative vote. Another 25 people were wounded when the militant blew himself up among supporters of parliamentary...

Libya has closed the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli again after rockets were fired in its direction, officials said Tuesday, days after flights had resumed following an earlier shutdown. Matiga airport, a former air base used for commercial flights since the main...

A team of ornithologists in Ecuador has identified a new species of hummingbird: a lovely blue-green creature that lives in a cold, barren highland area and is danger of extinction. Team leader Francisco Sornoza saw one of the birds through binoculars a year ago and had a hunch that it...

Canada's Justin Trudeau Monday hailed a new continental trade pact with the United States and Mexico as "profoundly beneficial" for Canadians -- but the prime minister must now sell the deal to skeptical dairy farmers, unions and voters. The 11th-hour deal was reached late Sunday after...

Lebanon's foreign minister gathered ambassadors Monday near Beirut international airport in a bid to disprove Israeli accusations that the Hezbollah movement had secret missile facilities there. "Today Lebanon is raising (its) voice by addressing all countries of the world... to...

Bones discovered at the foot of the Matterhorn have been identified as the remains of a Japanese national who disappeared on the iconic mountain four years ago, Swiss police said Monday. Police in the canton of Valais said that a 40-year-old climber, who had set out alone, disappeared...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Over 700 Syrian refugees headed back to Syria Monday from Lebanon, in the latest of such returns organized by the General Security, the Lebanese Daily Star reported. Over the past few weeks, about 2000 Syrian refugees have returned to Syria, most of the refugees...

The man at the center of a sex-abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy that awards the Nobel Prize in Literature was convicted Monday and sentenced to two years in prison for a rape in 2011. Jean-Claude Arnault, a major cultural figure in Sweden, had faced two...