Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a spokesman said Monday. Jim McGrath said on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is "responding to treatments and appears to be recovering." He was...
TORONTO (Reuters) - A driver plowed his white Ryder rental van into a crowd, killing nine people and injuring 16 along a roughly mile-long stretch of busy Toronto sidewalk during lunch hour on a sunny Monday afternoon, police said. Officials declined to answer questions about what...
His departure rescued Roma. His arrival revitalized Liverpool. When the two clubs meet over two legs in the Champions League semifinals, the matches will also serve as a celebration of Mohamed Salah, a player who means more to Roma and Liverpool than they could ever have imagined....
The administrative chief of Houthi-controlled northern Yemen was killed in an Arab-led coalition air raid last week, Houthi-run television reported Monday. Saleh al-Samad was the most senior Houthi official to be killed by the coalition since it intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015...
Daesh (ISIS) has threatened to attack Iraqi polling stations and voters during parliamentary elections next month. In a message posted to the Telegram messaging app on Sunday, Daesh spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir called on Sunni Iraqis to boycott the May 12 polls, the first since Iraqi...
The European signatories of Iran's nuclear deal with major powers should convince U.S. President Donald Trump not to exit the accord as there is no "plan B" for the agreement, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Tweeted Monday. "It is either all or nothing. European leaders...
Salah Abdeslam, the last remaining suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks, has been found guilty of attempted terrorist murder in a separate trial in Brussels. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Salah Abdeslam, the last remaining suspect in a string of Islamist attacks carried out in...
A Palestinian was killed in an explosion in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the health ministry. A child was also injured in the blast, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said in a statement. The cause of the explosion remains unknown. The Hamas-run...
Libyan naval forces on Sunday announced the death of 11 undocumented migrants, and the rescue of another 83. In a statement, the naval forces affiliated with the national consensus government said the bodies were found afloat on early Sunday, five miles off the coast of northwestern...
Liverpool winger, Mohammed Salah, has been named the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year for the 2017/2018 season. Salah won the prize ahead of Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne, who was the early season favourite to claim it. The other players nominated in...
Rafa Nadal continued his fine form to beat Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-2 in the Monte Carlo final and has still not dropped a set since the quarter finals in Rome last year.He has won his last 36 sets and now has a record 31 Masters 1000 titles after his latest victory on Sunday in Monte Carlo, one of...
An international human rights group late Saturday called on the UN to have a "permanent" presence in the "Great March of Return" protests along the Gaza-Israel borders, which this year have seen at least 39 Palestinians martyred by Israeli forces. According to a statement, the...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: Iran and Israel traded blame Sunday for an unprecedented, weeks-long surge in hostilities between their forces over Syria but played down prospects of a spillover into war. A showdown between the arch-foes has loomed since Feb. 10, when Israel said an armed Iranian...
GOMBAK (MALAYSIA) (AFP) - An autopsy was being carried out Sunday on the body of a Palestinian professor who was gunned down in what his family claim was an assassination by Israel's Mossad spy agency. Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, 35, was killed in a drive-by shooting on Saturday,...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday issued a law to regulate procedures to seize, manage and dispose assets of convicted terrorists. The state’s official gazette said that al-Sisi ratified the law following parliamentary approval on April 17. A committee of seven...
At least four people including two suicide bombers were killed in an attack at a mosque on Sunday in northeastern Nigeria, police said. Two female suicide bombers sneaked into a mosque in Bama town of Borno State early morning and detonated explosives, killing themselves and two other...
A Sunday morning suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul killed over 30 people trying to register for fall elections, officials confirmed. “Thirty-one people were killed and over 50 are injured and undergoing treatment in various public hospitals,” Waheed Majroh, spokesman for the...
Iraqi warplanes are hunting “terrorists beyond Iraq’s border”, Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi said on Sunday. “Iraqi Air Force is chasing terrorists and striking them beyond border to secure the country against their evil and plots,” al-Abadi said in a statement on the...
Iraq has extended the deadline for foreign companies and investors to bid for the construction and operation of a new 100,000 barrel per day (bpd) refinery near Mosul in the northern province of Nineveh, the oil ministry said on Sunday. Bidding documents provide for two investment...
Iranian police have arrested a former prosecutor known as the "torturer of Tehran," who faces a two-year prison sentence over the death of prisoners following 2009 protests, Iranian media reported Sunday. The official website of the judiciary, Mizanonline.com, said former Tehran...
