German police arrested three people Wednesday in a nationwide operation to crack down on a gang accused of trafficking migrants into Germany in trucks last year. The police said they arrested a Turk, aged 44, a 37-year old Pole and a Bulgarian, 53, in raids on seven properties in...
The Israeli authorities have notified African migrants and asylum seekers -- mainly those from Sudan and Eritrea -- that they have three months to leave the country or face jail time. Last August, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Eritrean and Sudanese migrants who had not...
The Secretaries of Defense and State urged an end to the ongoing row between Qatar and four of its neighbors Tuesday, saying the Gulf crisis has not only hurt the countries directly involved but Washington as well. "This dispute has had direct negative consequences economically...
Three people were killed and two injured when a helicopter crashed into a house in a suburban Southern California neighborhood just a few minutes after taking off, officials said. The helicopter crashed into the house with such force that it was barely recognizable. The crushed...
One in four children in the world has been living in a country affected by conflict or a disaster, the UN warned on Tuesday. In a report on humanitarian action for children in 2018 , the UN Children's Fund revealed that nearly 50 million children have been displaced due to...
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in West Bank: ministry
A coalition of eight Egyptian opposition parties and some 150 pro-democracy public figures are calling on voters to boycott the March presidential election, saying it amounts to a "farce" or "absurdity bordering on madness." The incumbent, general-turned-president Abdel-Fattah...
Israel said Tuesday it was reopening its embassy in Jordan which has been shut for six months, after the countries resolved a diplomatic dispute over a deadly shooting. The embassy in Amman is in the process of "gradual reopening," Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Emmanuel...
The Israeli army said Monday it was creating a unified command in Palestinian areas adjoining occupied east Jerusalem after a rise in attacks launched from the area since 2015. "The goal is to create a single regional brigade that will coordinate counterterrorism activities," the...
CIA Director Mike Pompeo said he expects Russia will target U.S. mid-term elections later this year as part of the Kremlin's attempt to influence domestic politics across the West. In an interview with the BBC, Pompeo also said that North Korea might have the ability to strike the...
A Saudi official said on Tuesday all detainees were released from Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton hotel, where they were held as part of an anti-corruption campaign. Dozens of princes, senior officials and top businessmen were detained and confined in the opulent Ritz-Carlton Riyadh as the...
ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) - Four people were killed on Monday in a second day of fighting between rival factions seeking control of the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, where the internationally recognised administration is based, witnesses and officials said. The clashes between...
A group of Gazans were allowed to farm their land near the border with Israel for the first time since 2006 Monday after a deal agreed with Israeli authorities. The deal, brokered by the International Committee of the Red Cross, saw around a dozen farmers set foot on land they had...
Iranian authorities have granted limited visiting rights to reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, under house arrest following protests sparked by a contested 2009 election, two media outlets reported Monday. Mousavi, 75, his wife Zahra Rahnavard and fellow reformist Mehdi...
A hospital in Gaza stopped services Monday after it ran out of fuel, the health ministry said, in a further example of a severe electricity shortage facing the blockaded Palestinian enclave. Beit Hanoun hospital in northern Gaza had "suspended medical services because of the...
Schools, clinics and food distribution centers in the Gaza Strip were closed Monday due to a one-day strike by the 13,000 employees of the United Nations agency that serves the Palestinians. The Palestinian employees have been angered by a U.S. decision to cut its annual...
A teenage mother who let her baby starve to death so she could party with friends has been jailed for just six and a half years. Viktoria Kuznetsova, 17, from Rostov, Russia, sat emotionless as her sentence was read out in court. The court was told that Kuznetsova had been planning...
More than half of the first line of the TurkStream natural gas pipeline project to deliver 35 percent of Turkey's gas needs has been completed, Gazprom officials, the project constructor, told visiting Turkish journalists at Novy Urengoy, Russia's biggest gas field and the world's...
Militants attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital of Kabul on Monday, killing at least five soldiers and wounding 10, officials said. Hours later, ISIS claimed responsibility for the assault. The attack was the latest in a wave of relentless...
Saudi Arabia's Waleed al-Ibrahim will keep management control of regional television broadcaster MBC after his release from detention in the country's corruption probe, a senior MBC executive told Reuters Monday. The executive, speaking on condition of anonymity under briefing...
