German police raided sites across the country on Wednesday in a crackdown on human trafficking and forced prostitution, federal police said on Twitter. It said the raid, which also involved Germany's GSG9 special operations police unit, represented the biggest mass search in the...

Blockbuster action flick "Black Panther" will play at a cinema test screening in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, the first in a series of trial runs before movie theatres open to the wider public next month. The conservative kingdom lifted a 35-year ban on cinemas last year as part of a...

CIA Director Mike Pompeo recently traveled to North Korea to meet with leader Kim Jong Un, a highly unusual, secret visit undertaken as the enemy nations prepare for a meeting between President Donald Trump and Kim. Two officials have confirmed the trip to The Associated Press. They are...

Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, revealed a composite sketch Tuesday of the man she says threatened her in 2011 to stay silent about an alleged affair she had with President Donald Trump. “His face is burned in my memory,” Clifford told the hosts of ABC’s “The View” on...

UN human rights experts on Tuesday slammed Israeli security forces for killing Palestinians near the Gaza fence by using firearms, including live ammunition. In a statement, the experts said: "UN human rights experts have condemned the continued use of firearms, including live...

Iran will soon resume direct flights from Tehran to Irbil, a city in Iraq's Kurdistan, an Iranian official said Tuesday, almost six months after the Baghdad government imposed an air ban on the region in retaliation for an independence vote. Flights will start again on April 27, Morteza...

China announced plans Tuesday to allow full foreign ownership of automakers in five years, ending restrictions that helped to fuel its escalating dispute with U.S. President Donald Trump and strained relations with other trading partners. The change would scrap rules that require global...

 Three Iranian security personnel were killed by militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan on Tuesday, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said. An Iranian police officer was killed in an ambush on a border post in the city of Mirjaveh in Sistan-Baluchestan province,...

Britain's decision to conduct air strikes against Syria was in the country's national interest, and not the result of pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Theresa May told parliament Monday. "We have not done this because President Trump asked us to, we have done it...

The White House said Monday it is considering additional sanctions on Russia following a suspected poison gas attack in Syria, but has not made a decision yet. "We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future," White House spokeswoman...

 Iraq has executed 13 people including 11 convicted on charges relating to "terrorism", the justice ministry said Monday. They included individuals responsible for car bombings, "killings of security forces personnel" and kidnappings, it said in a statement, without specifying...

NEW YORK (AP)-  Lawyers for President Donald Trump's personal attorney say investigators "took everything" during raids last week on his residence and office. The lawyers wrote in a court filing Monday that the raids a week ago to gather evidence from attorney Michael Cohen were...

European Union foreign ministers looked unlikely to join the United States Monday in imposing new economic sanctions on Russia or Syria over chemical weapons attacks that prompted the first coordinated Western air strikes in Syria. After Britain and France joined the United States in...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will face criticism Monday for bypassing parliament to join weekend air strikes against Syria, with some lawmakers calling for a potentially damaging vote on her future strategy. May, who has regained confidence after winning support for her tough...

Most Asian markets fell on Monday after a U.S.-led strike on Syrian targets fueled fresh concerns over the tinderbox Middle East, though analysts said investors were hopeful the crisis would not escalate. The U.S., Britain and France carried out attacks at the weekend on alleged...

The Russian ruble and shares in some of Russia's biggest companies slid lower Monday, dragged down by the threat of new U.S. sanctions and lower oil prices. Volatility on the Russian market has soared since Washington imposed fresh sanctions against Moscow on April 6, targeting major...

(AP) — Minnesotans slogged through a mid-April storm Sunday that dumped 2 feet (half a meter) of snow on parts of the Upper Midwest, coated roads with ice and battered areas farther south with powerful winds and tornadoes before plowing toward the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic U.S. The...

An Iraqi Turkmen Front’s (ITF) candidate in parliamentary polls survived a suicide car bomb attack in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a police official said on Sunday. The incident took place in front of a used car showroom in Hadra district, from where the parliament candidate Ammar...

HOUSTON (AP)- Former first lady Barbara Bush is in "failing health" and won't seek additional medical treatment, a Bush family spokesman said Sunday. "Following a recent series of hospitalizations, and after consulting her family and doctors, Mrs. Bush, now age 92, has decided not to...

A Russian journalist who wrote about Russian mercenaries in Syria has died from injuries he sustained after falling from a balcony. Maxim Borodin, 32, died at a hospital on Sunday after falling from his fifth-floor balcony in Yekaterinburg on Thursday, according to the Associated Press...