Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, trying to move beyond a bitter dispute over migrant policy that threatened the coalition, has fallen to its lowest level since 2006, a poll showed Sunday. The Emnid poll published in Bild am Sonntag showed Merkel's Christian...

A Palestinian teenager released by Israel Sunday after completing a prison term for kicking and slapping an Israeli soldier urged continued struggle against Israeli occupation of the West Bank, a call echoed by the Palestinian president. Ahed Tamimi, 17, became a heroine to Palestinians...

Two Palestinian fighters were killed in the eastern Gaza Strip early Sunday, their movement said, in an explosion during what residents said were preparations to launch a projectile at Israel. The left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) named the two members of...

Iran's currency hit a record low on Sunday of 100,000 rials to the dollar amid a deepening economic crisis and the imminent return of full U.S. sanctions. The unofficial rate stood at 102,000 rials by midday, according to Bonbast, one of the most reliable sites for tracking the Iranian...

Tunisia on Saturday said it would take in 40 migrants, including two pregnant women, rescued by a commercial vessel. The ship, the "Sarost 5" a Tunisian flagged supply boat, has been blocked for two weeks from docking off Zarzis in southern Tunisia. "For humanitarian reasons, we...

Turkey’s Assyrian community has welcomed a new regulation allowing free allocation of places of worship such as synagogues, churches, and monasteries to minority foundations. Yilmaz Hicbezmez, deputy head of an association linked to the Mor Hananyo Monastery -- also known as the...

Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has returned to Belgium after Spain’s Supreme Court dropped an international arrest warrant for him. “This will not be my last stop. This is not the end of my journey. I will travel around Europe to the four corners of the continent to defend our...

Iran plans to offer price and tax incentives to private investors to take over idle state projects and help boost the economy, state media reported on Saturday, as the country faces likely U.S. sanctions and the exit of many foreign companies. In May the United States pulled out of a...

The trade relationship between the United States and Europe is improving, German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner said Saturday, but there is no guarantee the bloc will buy the quantity of soybeans that Washington expects. U.S. President Donald Trump and Jean-Claude Juncker,...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi sacked five local election officials Saturday on charges of corruption during the May 12 parliamentary election, a spokesman for the Independent High Elections Commission (IHEC) said. The move comes as Iraq conducts a manual recount of the ballots - a...

Zimbabwe's president promised a "thunderous victory" and his main challenger told him "bye-bye" as they rallied supporters one last time ahead of Monday's election in a country seeking to move past decades of economic and political paralysis. The vote will be a first for the southern...

An Egyptian court sentenced 75 people to death on Saturday, including top figures of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in, state media reported. The Cairo Criminal Court referred the sentences to the Grand Mufti — the country's top theological...

Tourists and Britons hoping to go on vacation are enduring another day of travel trouble in Britain after severe weather led to flight cancellations and delays on cross-Channel trains. A week of extreme heat gave way to thunderstorms Friday, touching off travel delays on Saturday....

Pope Francis Saturday accepted the resignation as a cardinal of Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C. and one of the U.S. Catholic Church's most prominent figures, who has been at the center of allegations of sex abuse with minors and young seminarians. McCarrick was...

Gunmen raided a midwife training center in eastern Afghanistan Saturday in an ongoing attack that has left at least three people wounded and sparked fierce fighting with security forces, officials and witnesses said. At least 67 people, including students and teachers, were inside the...

Tens of thousands of Russians took part Saturday in rallies across the country organized by Communists to protest against highly controversial plans to hike the pension age. In Moscow, organizers said up to 100,000 people gathered for a permitted rally against the government-backed...

An Arab-led coalition launched heavy airstrikes on Yemen’s main port city of Hudaida Friday, in an apparent resumption of military operations on the city after the Houthis attacked two Saudi oil tankers, residents said. The coalition on July 1 halted an attack on the Houthi-held city to aid...

President Donald Trump thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday for "fulfilling a promise" to return the remains of U.S. soldiers missing from the Korean War, as a U.S. military plane made a rare trip into North Korea to retrieve 55 cases said to contain remains. Close to 7,700...

Thousands of people took to the streets of Baghdad and cities across southern Iraq Friday in the latest protests against corruption, social ills and political leadership. Surrounded by a cordon of anti-riot personnel equipped with electric batons, protestors in Baghdad's Tahrir Square...

An Arab-led coalition launched heavy air strikes on Yemen's main port city of Hudaida Friday, in an apparent resumption of military operations on the Red Sea city after the Iranian-aligned Houthi movement attacked two Saudi oil tankers. Residents said coalition warplanes had begun their...