Germany's Angela Merkel welcomed Saturday a Bulgarian plan to host a European Union-Turkey working meeting to try to improve strained ties and clear the ground for an eventual possible summit. Bulgaria, which currently holds the EU presidency, is preparing a meeting between Turkish...

The body of six-year-old Zainab Fatima Ameen was dumped here in the city of Kasur -- one of a dozen such young victims in recent years. Her shocking death has sparked nationwide outrage and fears a serial murderer may be at work. Nusrat Bibi, Zainab's mother, said "They must...

Eleven people were killed and 46 injured when an Turkish intercity bus taking families bound for a half-term skiing trip crashed into trees while travelling on a motorway, local officials said. The bus, which was making an overnight journey from the capital Ankara to the western city of...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced on Friday his intention to run for a second term in office in a March election. Egypt is set to hold a presidential vote on March 26-28, with a run-off on April 24-26. Candidates must register between Jan. 20 and 29. Sisi came to...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday the Iran nuclear deal cannot survive if the United States pulls out of the agreement. U.S. President Donald Trump said a week ago that European allies and Congress have to work with him to fix "the disastrous flaws" in the nuclear pact...

Intensified hostilities in Yemen have forced more than 32,000 people to flee their homes in the past two months, the United Nations refugee agency has said. They join some two million Yemenis already displaced by the war, the UNHCR said in a statement on Thursday. "The arrival...

The leader of the Lebanese group Hezbollah on Friday accused Israel of carrying out a bomb attack that wounded a member of the Palestinian group Hamas in the Lebanese city of Sidon and called it an act of aggression. “The bomb that targeted a Hamas member in Sidon is a dangerous...

SAO PAULO, Brazil: Brazilian soccer great Pele has collapsed with exhaustion and been forced to cancel a long-planned trip to London this weekend, the Football Writers Association (FWA) said Friday. The FWA was due to host a dinner in his honor at the Savoy hotel on Sunday but said the...

Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Emmanuel Macron will spend more than five hours together in Paris Friday, putting on a show of Franco-German unity as they try to agree on reforms to the euro zone. At an EU summit in Brussels last month, the two said they hoped to come up with...

Russia will abide by all of its international commitments, the Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday when asked about U.S. President Donald Trump's allegation that Moscow was in breach of U.N. sanctions on North Korea. Trump said in an interview with Reuters Wednesday that Russia...

Human Rights Watch accused Saudi Arabia Thursday of violating international humanitarian law in Yemen and stepping up arrests and prosecutions of activists seeking reform or voicing peaceful dissent. In its World Report 2018, which reviews human rights practices in more than 90...

Israel confirmed Thursday it had reached a deal with Jordan over a shooting incident last July at the Israeli embassy in Amman that left two Jordanians dead. “Israel and Jordan have reached an agreement over the shooting incident which occurred at the Israeli embassy in Amman in which...

Spanish authorities have detained two men allegedly responsible for a boat carrying migrants to the Canary Islands, seven of whom drowned or died from "hypothermia, exhaustion and hunger", a court said Thursday. The inflatable boat was found Monday off a beach at the popular resort of...

Woody Allen Thursday issued another denial of child molestation, accusing his ex-lover's family of "cynically" jumping on the Time's Up movement in Hollywood to repeat a "discredited allegation." The legendary American film director issued the statement after his estranged, adopted...

The United Nations says violence against aid workers in South Sudan reached a new high in 2017, with 28 killed. Nearly half of the 1,159 humanitarian access incidents reported last year by aid agencies involved violence including killing, looting and threats. The U.N....

Human Rights Watch says the world must do more to help end rights abuses in chaotic Libya, which has emerged as one of the main corridors for migration to Europe. The U.S.-based group says in its annual report Thursday that most of the over 200,000 migrants and asylum seekers who...

Emergency officials in Kazakhstan say that 52 people have been killed in a bus fire. The Emergencies Department of the former Soviet nation in Central Asia said Thursday's tragedy happened in the northern Aktobe region. Authorities said that only five of 57 people on the bus managed to...

The Koreas have agreed to march together at next month's Winter Olympics under a unified flag as well as taking the unprecedented step to field a joint women's ice hockey team during the event. Seoul and Pyongyang delegations announced late Wednesday they will strengthen cooperation at...

At least one Palestinian gunman was killed in a raid by Israeli armed forces on the town of Jenin in the occupied West Bank late on Wednesday, Palestinian health officials and local residents said. Israeli officials declined initially to comment on the incident which was under a...

A Russian radio station says the man who stabbed and seriously wounded one of its journalists has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Ekho Moskvy host and deputy editor-in-chief Tatyana Felgenhauer was stabbed in the neck at the station's Moscow office on Oct. 23. The attacker, Boris...