French police are investigating whether the death of an elderly Jewish woman stabbed and burnt to death in her Paris apartment last week was an anti-Semitic murder, a judicial source said Monday. Mirelle Knoll, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, was found dead Friday inside the...

 A military Arab-led coalition Monday threatened retaliation against Iran, accusing the Shiite power of being behind multiple Yemeni rebel missile attacks on Saudi Arabia. We "reserve the right to respond against Iran at the right time and right place," coalition spokesman Turki...

Fourteen EU member states have expelled dozens of Russian diplomats in an orchestrated reaction Monday, over the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the U.K. At least 43 Russian diplomats have been expelled across Europe so far.  "As a...

The U.S. retaliated Monday for a chemical attack in the U.K. blamed on Russia by expelling 60 diplomats Washington said were working as intelligence officers, and orders the closure of Moscow’s consulate in Seattle.  Those expelled include 48 embassy employees and 12 individuals...

The entire Premier League has been left stunned by the impact Mohamed Salah has made in the division since his arrival at Anfield in the summer, however Liverpool now wish to keep him by offering him a 13 million euro annual contract. Salah is the current leading scorer in the Premier...

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Monday proposed creating a "rainy day fund" for the euro zone to help cushion members of the currency union in future economic downturns. In a speech in Berlin, Lagarde hailed a "sustained and broadly shared upswing" in...

 South Korea has agreed to further open its auto market to the United States as the two countries reached an agreement in principle on amending their six-year-old free trade agreement, its top trade negotiator said Monday. South Korea's Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong said the United...

Adult film star Stormy Daniels says she was threatened to keep silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006, telling her story in a highly anticipated interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" broadcast Sunday. Daniels said she was threatened by an unidentified man in Las...

Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont is to appear in court Monday following his arrest in Germany which triggered a wave of protests in Catalonia where thousands of separatists faced off with police. German police arrested Puigdemont Sunday, after he crossed the border from...

British Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson said Monday that the world was united behind Britain's stance over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter and it sent a strong message to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Britain has blamed Russia for the nerve agent attack on...

The Malaysian government Monday proposed a "fake news" law which would carry a maximum 10-year jail term, including for articles published abroad, sparking fears of a crackdown on dissent as elections loom. Governments in several countries, emboldened by U.S. President Donald Trump's...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is considering the expulsion of some Russian diplomats in the United States in solidarity with Britain over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday. The move may be contingent on...

MOSCOW (AFP) -  At least 37 people were killed when a fire ripped through a busy shopping centre in an industrial city in western Siberia, with scores more reported missing, including children. "At this time, we can confirm the deaths of 37 people in the fire at the Kemerovo...

The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Sunday denied reports it was leaving the Incirlik base in southern Turkey's Adana province and the Al Udeid base in Qatar. “The U.S. is not leaving Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, nor is the U.S. leaving Al Udeid AB, Qatar. These reports are false and...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Turkey had begun operations in Iraq's Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the area. "We said we would go into Sinjar. Now operations have...

Iran has called the appointment of the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to the role of National Security Adviser of the United States "a shame," Iranian media reported Sunday. The report by the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the country's Supreme...

 A senior official in the U.N. children's agency says the number of severely malnourished children in Yemen has doubled in three years of civil war, from 200,000 in 2015, and that an additional half a million boys and girls can no longer go to school. Regional UNICEF director Geert...

Britain's accusations that Moscow was behind the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in England "border on banditry", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by RIA news agency on Sunday. "We are stating that this is quite unprecedented - international...

The U.S. military says it has launched an airstrike in southwestern Libya, killing two militants. Africa Command said Saturday's airstrike was conducted near the town of Ubari as part of efforts to "disrupt and destroy terrorist organizations." AFRICOM said no civilians were killed....

BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s opening up is self-initiated and will not be forced by pressure from other countries, the country’s commerce ministry said on Sunday on its official Wechat account. Zhong Shan, the head of the ministry of commerce, made the comments during a meeting...