AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan’s Prime Minister Hani Mulki reshuffled his cabinet on Sunday and appointed the king’s chief of staff as his special deputy for economic affairs in an apparent bid to soothe widespread anger over rising hardship and flagging growth. Mulki’s reshuffle, his sixth...

At least two people were killed and dozens more injured on Sunday when security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo cracked down on church-led demonstrations against President Joseph Kabila, the United Nations said. Catholic and evangelical churchgoers across Congo had meant to take...

 British police declared a major incident on Sunday after a large blast destroyed a convenience store and a home in the central English city of Leicester. Ambulance services reported that four people were admitted to hospital in critical condition. "We have taken four patients to...

The downing of an Israeli F-16 fighter jet earlier this month by a Syrian anti-aircraft missile resulted from a "professional error" by the crew, the Israeli military said Sunday. Its investigation found that an anti-aircraft missile shot down the Israeli warplane while it was returning...

Chancellor Angela Merkel has unveiled her picks for Cabinet ministers, ahead of a special party congress of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on Monday, which would vote on forming a "grand coalition" government with Social Democrats. Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on...

Some 50 nationalists on Sunday disrupted a news conference in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, which was organized by a group of Buddhist monks who have been pressing the government to take action against an anti-Muslim monk. The nationalists including 20 monks barged into an apartment...

At least one Palestinian fisherman was killed and two others injured when Israeli Navy opened fire at a fishing boat off Gaza's coast, Israeli media reported. Two Israeli soldiers were also injured in the incident, broadcaster Channel 2 reported, without explaining the nature of the...

Harry Kane struck late to secure Tottenham Hotspur's 1-0 victory at Crystal Palace Sunday that moved Mauricio Pochettino's side into the top four immediately ahead of Chelsea's visit to Manchester United. Spurs appeared set for disappointment after struggling to break down a Crystal Palace...

An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Daesh (ISIS), a judiciary spokesman said Sunday. Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children, since August by Iraqi forces as Daesh...

A protest against the ongoing Syrian government offensive in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta was held in front of the Russian Embassy in Beirut on Sunday.

Three members of a pro-government militia were injured in a suicide bombing in Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk province on Sunday, according to a local police officer.   A bomber blew himself up near a headquarters of the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia in central Kirkuk, Capt. Hamed al-Obaidi...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea: Marit Bjoergen grabbed a record-extending 15th Winter Olympics medal as she won the 30km cross country to put Norway top of the final medals table in Pyeongchang Sunday. The cross-country legend, 37, signed off in style after a glittering Olympic career as she...

At least two people were wounded as police fired live bullets and tear gas Sunday to break up a banned protest against DR Congo President Joseph Kabila in Kisangani, the country's third largest city, an AFP reporter said. Hundreds starting marching after mass at the city's cathedral but...

Several 3,000-year old tombs were discovered in Minya, about 245 kilometres (152 miles) south of Cairo, Egyptian authorities announced Friday. Khaled al-Anani, the minister of antiquities, said in a statement that eight tombs containing 40 sarcophagi and roughly 1,000 figurines had been...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for a double suicide car bombing in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden Saturday that witnesses and local medics said killed and wounded dozens. They said the attacks appeared to have targeted a camp used by anti-terrorism forces in south-western Aden....

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmad Abu Al-Ghait on Saturday said the U.S. decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was a "provocation". Washington announced on Friday that it would move its embassy on May 14, to coincide with the day the state of Israel was established...

KABUL (AFP)- At least 23 people, mostly soldiers, were killed and more than a dozen wounded in a series of attacks and suicide bombings in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest assaults on the war-torn country's beleaguered security forces. In the biggest attack, Taliban...

YANGON (AFP)- Three bombs exploded early Saturday in the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state, a cauldron of ethnic tensions roiled by insurgencies and a military crackdown on the Muslim Rohingya, injuring one police officer, officials said. The three blasts at separate locations around...

MOGADISHU (Reuters)- The death toll from twin car bomb blasts in the Somali capital late on Friday has risen to 45 from the initially reported 18, a senior government official said on Saturday. Al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for the attack near the...

NEW YORK (AP) - The National Rifle Association is facing a corporate backlash as companies take a closer look at their investments, co-branding deals and other ties to the gun industry following the latest school massacre. A handful of companies have ended discount programs with the NRA...