A train believed to be carrying a senior North Korean delegation, which some reports said included the country’s leader Kim Jong Un, left the Chinese capital Tuesday following a dramatic whirlwind visit. The conservative South Korea Chosun Ilbo newspaper, citing an unidentified...

A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the leader was taken to hospital Tuesday for tests following an illness. "The prime minister is suffering from a high fever and is coughing," a spokesman for the 68-year-old Netanyahu, said in a text message....

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday received Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim Al-Thani in the capital Ankara, according to the presidency's official website.  A closed-door meeting continued for one hour and 45 minutes in the...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Tuesday that the alliance had expelled seven Russian staffers at Russia’s Mission to the NATO in response to the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom. “I have withdrawn the...

A Turkish court Tuesday ruled that two Greek soldiers charged with espionage and illegally entering the country would remain in jail, in defiance of European Union pressure for their release, reports said. The pair were arrested on March 2 for entering a military zone in the northern...

About 2 million children were out of school in Yemen, the UN Children's Fund UNICEF has warned. "Nearly half a million children have dropped out of school since the 2015 escalation of conflict in Yemen, bringing the total number of out-of-school children to 2 million," UNICEF said in a...

Israeli forces on Tuesday detained three Palestinians who sneaked into Israel through border with the Gaza Strip, according to the Israeli military. In a statement, the army said the three Gazans were in possession of knives and bombs when they were arrested. No further details...

 Iraq's armed forces have instructions to prevent "foreign fighters" from launching cross-border attacks on Turkey, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told his Turkish counterpart, Binali Yildirim. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Turkey's intelligence...

The Islamist gunman who killed four people in southern France last week had been summoned by anti-terror police for questioning shortly before his shooting rampage, a police source told AFP Tuesday. Radouane Lakdim, a 25-year-old Moroccan-born French national, had been on a list of...

Unions at South Korea's two-largest automakers, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors, say plans to revise a free trade deal with the United States involve concessions that will prevent local automakers from entering the fast-growing U.S. pick-up truck market. Hyundai's labor union said Tuesday that...

Polls opened in Egypt on Tuesday for the second day of a presidential election incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win easily against a little-known rival. Few voters could be seen at one polling station which opened at 9:00 am in Cairo. Authorities have been urging...

Six former Israeli spymasters accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday of jeopardizing the country's future as it prepares to celebrate the 70th anniversary of its founding next month. The surviving ex-Mossad intelligence agency chiefs voiced their opinion of the fourth-term,...

 Deteriorating weather forced a Volvo Ocean Race yacht to abandon its search for a British crew member washed overboard in the hostile Southern Ocean Tuesday, with organizers admitting hopes of finding the man alive were fading. Briton John Fisher went missing from the yacht...

Two Qatari fighter jets flew dangerously close to two civilian aircraft from the United Arab Emirates while they were in Bahraini airspace on Monday, UAE state news agency WAM quoted its civil aviation authority as saying. WAM said the General Civil Aviation Authority had condemned the...

Forty one children were killed in the Kemerovo shopping mall fire in Russia, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday, citing a list of victims made available to relatives. A total of 64 people had been killed, according to the list, Interfax said.

The U.S. on Monday "strongly" condemned a Houthi barrage rocket attack on Saudi Arabia that killed one person and injured two others. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert called the attack "dangerous" while expressing condolences to the families of those killed and injured....

The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has warned Israel against carrying out any acts of aggression against the Palestinian people, saying the response to such acts would be “immediate”.   “The [Palestinian] resistance is ready to confront any Zionist aggression...

The United Arab Emirates' civil aviation authority said two Qatari fighter jets flew dangerously close to two Emirati civilian aircraft while they were in Bahrain's airspace Monday, the UAE's state news agency WAM reported. The General Civil Aviation Authority condemned the "provocative...

Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday Russia had "spectacularly failed" in efforts to divide Britain's allies following a nerve agent attack this month on a former Russian spy in an English city. "If the Kremlin's goal is to divide and intimidate the Western alliance, then their...

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee said Monday it had invited the chief executives of Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter Inc to testify at an April 10 hearing on data privacy. Senator Charles Grassley, the committee's chairman, said he invited Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg "to...