President Donald Trump says Air Force One is getting a patriotic makeover. Trump says the familiar baby blue color on the presidential aircraft will give way to a red-white-and-blue color scheme. Updated models could be in service during a potential second term. The president made the...

Russia's Foreign Ministry said Greece's expulsion of two Russian diplomats would have consequences, the RIA news agency reported on Wednesday. Athens said last week it had expelled two Russian diplomats for trying to bribe officials and foment demonstrations to thwart a deal to allow...

The world's chemical weapons watchdog said on Wednesday it has collected samples to identify the substance believed to have caused the July 8 death of a British woman in Amesbury, England, and sickened her partner. The British government had asked the Hague-based Organization for the...

Iran continues to acquire uranium and is close to finishing a factory where it can build more centrifuges to enrich it, the country's nuclear chief said Wednesday, adding also that uranium stockpiles have nearly doubled in the last few years. The comments by Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's...

South Africans along with former U.S. President Barack Obama were marking the centennial of Nelson Mandela's birth on Wednesday with acts of charity in a country still struggling with deep economic inequality 24 years after the end of white minority rule. Obama was meeting with young...

The trial of a U.S. pastor who is accused of aiding terror groups and engaging in espionage has resumed in a town in western Turkey. Andrew Craig Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical pastor from Black Mountain, North Carolina, was arrested in the aftermath of a 2016 coup attempt for...

An aid group says it won't dock its boat in an Italian port and that instead it's seeking a go-ahead to disembark in Spain with the woman who survived a migrant boat wreck and the dead bodies of another woman and a toddler. Spanish rescue group Proactiva Open Arms has accused Libya's...

A Moscow court Wednesday extended the house arrest of renowned Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov over a controversial fraud case to Aug. 22, TASS state news agency reported. Serebrennikov is awaiting trial on charges of embezzling 133 million rubles ($2.1 million at...

Blistered by bipartisan condemnation of his embrace of a longtime U.S. enemy, President Donald Trump backed away from his public undermining of American intelligence agencies, saying he simply misspoke when he said he saw no reason to believe Russia had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election....

The European Union and Japan signed a landmark deal on Tuesday that will eliminate nearly all tariffs on products they trade. The ambitious pact signed in Tokyo runs counter to President Donald Trump's moves to hike tariffs on imports from many U.S. trading partners. It covers a third of the...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that Israel was prepared for “any scenario” in the blockaded Gaza Strip, according to an official statement. “We are in the midst of a battle that involves an exchange of blows and I can tell you that the [Israeli] army is ready...

At least 269 undocumented migrants were held across Turkey on Tuesday, according to security sources. In the northwestern province of Edirne, 98 migrants were rounded up in the Meric district as well as in the village of Yenikadin, said gendarmerie sources, who asked not to be named due...

All flights from Iran to Iraq’s southern city of Najaf have resumed following recent disturbances at Najaf’s international airport, according to Iranian officials.   “All flights to Najaf have resumed; the situation has returned to normal,” Riza Jaferzade, a spokesman for Iran’s...

British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a battle over trade in parliament on Tuesday, with pro-EU lawmakers hoping to influence her plans to leave the European Union a day after she bowed to demands from Brexit campaigners. May's vulnerability in parliament, where she lost her...

Russia's political and media establishment heralded talks between the Russian and U.S. leaders in Helsinki as a victory for Vladimir Putin in breaking down Western resolve to treat Russia as a pariah. "The West's attempts to isolate Russia failed," read the headline on a report on...

Suspected Daesh (ISIS) militants attacked Taliban fighters attending a funeral in northern Afghanistan Tuesday and killed at least 15 in the latest violence between the rival groups, officials said. Another five Taliban were wounded in the attack on a house in Sayad district in Sari Pul...

Libya's coast guard says it has intercepted some 160 Europe-bound African migrants, including dozens of children and women, in the Mediterranean Sea near its shores. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim says a boat carrying 158 passengers including 34 women and nine children was stopped Monday off...

North Korea fulfilled another of its obligations to South Korea and the United States on Tuesday, after Pyongyang reached agreements with the allies in separate summits this year. The Koreas fully restored a military hotline in the western border area, according to Seoul's Defense...

A Palestinian youth has succumbed to wounds he sustained from Israeli fire during anti-occupation protests in the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry on Tuesday. Sari Al-Shawbki was shot and critically injured in the neck during protests near Gaza border two months ago, the...

Kirkuk Airport will open for domestic and international flights in August, , an Iraqi official announced on Monday. Rakan al-Jubouri, the governor of Kirkuk, told reporters that experts from the Ministry of Transportation would arrive in Kirkuk shortly to confirm the date of the first...