Croatia have relied on mental strength to defy limited resources and become the smallest nation in 68 years to reach a World Cup final, said defender Dejan Lovren. Zlatko Dalic's men have taken the long road to a meeting with France in Moscow on Sunday after three lots of extra-time and...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on American allies Thursday to help impose economic pressure on Iran, and accused Tehran of continuing to sell weapons in the Middle East despite United Nations resolutions. "We must cut off all funding the regime uses to fund terrorism & proxy...

Egypt has hiked the prices of cigarettes, the latest measure amid reforms designed to overhaul the country's troubled economy, still reeling from a costly 2011 uprising. The government's decision, which took effect Thursday, imposes an increase of 1.5-3 Egyptian pounds, or about 8-17...

At least 10 people were killed and hundreds of homes destroyed in a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan after melting snow triggered a landslide, officials said Thursday. A mountain lake in Panjshir, a province known for its snowcapped peaks north of Kabul, overflowed and sent water...

U.S. President Donald Trump went on a fresh attack against NATO allies' spending and European trade practices in a closed-door session at a NATO summit on Thursday, two sources told Reuters. NATO leaders then asked non-NATO partner countries Ukraine and Georgia to leave the room for an...

Rising global oil supply, driven by crude giants Saudi Arabia and Russia, may come under pressure as key producers face disruptions, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. The IEA welcomed in its July report last month's agreement between the Organization of the Petroleum...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Ali Akbar Velayati, a top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Thursday in Moscow, RIA news agency reported, without providing any details. Velayati hailed Iran's ties with Russia on Wednesday as "strategic" and said he would...

An Israeli military court on Wednesday dismissed prosecutors’ objections to the conditional release of detained Turkish national Ebru Ozkan. Ozkan, 27, appeared at a Wednesday hearing at the Ofer military court in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Prosecutors lodged an objection...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that volatility in the dollar would decrease and that, when it comes to exchange and interest rates, domestic banks would lend support, local broadcasters quoted him as saying on Wednesday. Turkey's army may come under the authority of the...

U.S. President Donald Trump traded barbs with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a tense NATO summit Wednesday after he accused Berlin of being "captive" to Russia and demanded it immediately step up defense spending. The two-day meeting in Brussels is shaping up as the alliance's most...

U.S. President Donald Trump accused Germany of being a "captive" of Russia Wednesday as Western leaders gathered in Brussels for a NATO summit where Trump wants Europeans to pay up more for their own defense. In a startling public outburst, Trump told NATO Secretary-General Jens...

At least 11 people died Wednesday when a fuel tanker collided with a bus in western Iran, state media reported. The vehicles crashed shortly after midnight (1900 GMT Tuesday) in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran's Kurdistan province, around 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of Tehran,...

The youth football team rescued from a cave in Thailand will be unable to accept FIFA’s invitation to attend the World Cup final. “We have been informed by the Football Association of Thailand that due to medical reasons, the boys will not be in a position to travel to Moscow for the...

The United Nations Tuesday criticized Israel's closure of its only cargo crossing with the Gaza Strip, warning that the measure could have negative consequences. In a statement, U.N. Special Coordinator Nickolay Mladenov urged Israel to reverse its decision. Israel said it was...

Yes. Real Madrid are above any player, even the biggest. What happened to Cristiano Ronaldo and his move to Juventus, would have happened sooner or later. It is the law of life. The player is fully amortized leaving behind a historical, almost unrepeatable, trajectory at Los Blancos....

Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted a missile fired at its southwestern region of Jizan by Yemen's Houthi movement, Saudi state media said Tuesday. Houthi-run al-Masirah TV had said earlier that a Badr 1 missile had been aimed at Jizan Economic City. There were no immediate...

ROME: Italy has refused to allow a commercial vessel flying an Italian flag to bring ashore rescued migrants, sticking to a hardline policy on new arrivals as it presses European allies to share the burden of hosting an influx of displaced people. A commercial ship that supplies oil...

Iran's vice president acknowledged on Tuesday that U.S. sanctions would hurt the economy, but promised to "sell as much oil as we can" and protect banking. Eshaq Jahangiri said Washington was trying to stop Iran's petrochemical, steel and copper exports. "America seeks to reduce Iran's...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the U.S. wants to show Iran its actions have "a real high cost" while on a visit to the United Arab Emirates. Speaking to Sky News Arabia, Pompeo said Tuesday that a focus remains on denying "Iran the financial capacity to continue this bad...

The Kremlin said Tuesday that former British foreign minister Boris Johnson's contribution to U.K.-Russia relations was very modest and that Moscow was now waiting for Britain to have a political epiphany. The poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the English city of...