President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a historic summit on June 12 in Singapore where the U.S. leader will try to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons. It will be the first ever summit between the leaders of the two...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Iran's president that she supports maintaining a big-power nuclear accord, following the withdrawal of the United States, as long as Tehran upholds its side of the deal, her office said Thursday. In a telephone call with Hassan Rouhani, Merkel...

Armenian President Armen Sarkissian has dismissed the head of the security service and the police chief at the request of newly elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, the presidential press service said on Thursday. Opposition leader Pashinyan was elected Armenia's prime minister by...

Staging a made-for-TV, still-of-the-night arrival ceremony, President Donald Trump welcomed home three Americans freed by North Korea and declared their release a sign of promise toward his goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. Speaking early Thursday on an air base tarmac with...

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he expects to be sworn in as prime minister on Thursday because his opposition coalition has the support of the majority of members of Parliament. Mahathir said his coalition will have the support of 135 members of Malaysia's...

Immediately on returning from North Korea on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will embark on talks with allies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia to try to persuade them to press Iran to curb its nuclear and missile programs, U.S. officials said. The open question is whether...

Just as U.S. President Donald Trump reached one hand out to North Korea, he yanked the other back from Iran. The president’s dramatic withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal was the most vivid illustration to date of how his impulses and capricious instincts tend to pull him in paradoxical...

The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor requested help from the United Nations Security Council Wednesday to arrest three fugitives in Libya, including military strongman Khalifa Haftar and a son of the late leader Moammar Gadhafi. During a U.N. Security Council meeting,...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he will announce the site for a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un within three days and it will not be held at the demilitarized zone along the border between the two Koreas. "It will not be there," he told reporters at the start of a...

French President Emmanuel Macron and Iran's Hassan Rouhani agreed Wednesday during a phone call to work toward "the continued implementation of the nuclear deal" despite the U.S. decision to withdraw from the agreement, the French presidency said. "The French and Iranian presidents...

An explosion killed at least five people and wounded 10 Wednesday in a market for the stimulant leaf khat in southern Somalia, police and residents said. The blast, whose cause was not immediately clear, occurred in the busy market in the town of Wanlaweyn in the Lower Shabelle region,...

Yemen's armed Houthi movement said it fired missiles at "economic targets" in Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday, the group's official channel al-Masirah TV reported. "The missile force struck ... economic targets in Riyadh with a salvo of ballistic missiles," it said in a newsflash....

Four consecutive loud booms were heard in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh Wednesday, Reuters witnesses said. There was no immediate comment from Saudi authorities. Shortly after the noises were heard, state television Al-Ekhbariya said Saudi Arabia's air defense forces intercepted...

The UK, France and Germany expressed ‘regret and concern’ Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal. In a joint statement, British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

Iranian members of parliament on Wednesday protested the U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the landmark nuclear deal, Iranian state TV reported. During a morning session, lawmakers chanted “death to America” slogans and set the American flag and a copy of the...

Five people have been killed in a coal mine blast in central China's Hunan Province on Wednesday, the country’s official news agency reported. The colliery gas explosion happened at about 3.10 a.m. local time [1910GMT] at the coal pit of a private company in Shaodong County, Xinhua news...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday his recently confirmed top diplomat is enroute to North Korea to lay the groundwork for an historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. "Plans are being made. Relationships are building," Trump said at the White House as Secretary of State...

U.S. President Donald Trump is not fit for his job, the speaker of Iran's Parliament said on Wednesday, in Tehran's most personal criticism since Trump's decision to withdraw from a 2015 nuclear pact between Tehran and six world powers. Trump pulled the United States out of the deal on...

Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have failed again to make progress on their Nile dispute as Ethiopia works to complete a massive upstream dam, an Egyptian official said Tuesday. Egypt fears the Renaissance Dam will cut into its share of the river, which provides virtually all the freshwater for the...

A Hamas official says that the group hopes to mobilize a large turnout for next week’s Gaza border protests, the highlight of a campaign to break a decade-old blockade of the territory. Ghazi Hamad said Tuesday that “there are many tools” to encourage participation, including making...