The Palestinian president Wednesday again blasted Donald Trump in a fiery and emotional speech, saying the U.S. leader's decision to recognize contested Jerusalem as Israel's capital was "sinful" and "ill-fated." Mahmoud Abbas, who has openly cursed Trump over his policies, told a...

 Former White House strategist Steve Bannon has struck a deal to be interviewed by U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team instead of appearing before a grand jury, CNN reported Wednesday, citing sources close to Bannon. The New York Times said on Tuesday Bannon had been...

A Saudi Arabian preacher was shot dead in Guinea's east after organizing a prayer service that angered some villagers in the majority-Muslim West African country, local sources said Wednesday. The man, who was a member of a mission building mosques in Upper Guinea, was killed Tuesday...

The European Union Wednesday accused Russia of pumping out thousands of pieces of disinformation in an "orchestrated strategy" aimed at destabilizing the bloc. Russia faces a barrage of accusations of interfering in a string of seismic political events, including the British vote to...

An Israeli military judge Wednesday ordered a Palestinian teenager arrested after a viral video showed her hitting two Israeli soldiers held in custody through her trial. "I found no alternative other than to order her detention in custody until the end of proceedings," the judge ruled,...

U.S. authorities said Tuesday they had arrested a former CIA agent, Hong Kong resident Jerry Chun Shing Lee, after discovering he had an unauthorized notebook that had the identities of undercover U.S. spies. Lee, a naturalized U.S. national also known as Zhen Cheng Li, was arrested...

 Seven French prison officers were hurt when an Islamist convict attacked them as he resisted a search, while guards resumed a strike Tuesday demanding better security in jails nationwide. The latest assault, which took place in a prison in southwestern France Monday, came just...

The U.S. on Tuesday said it was suspending a total of $65 million in aid to Palestine “for future consideration.” “It's not being canceled. It's just being held for future consideration,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert told a press briefing. Nauert added that $60...

 Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami Tuesday called on authorities to listen to popular demands after a wave of deadly unrest over economic woes. Authorities "should try to identify people's problems and hardships" instead of "humiliating" them, the reformist said in a...

The Israeli military says it has reopened a key border crossing with the Gaza Strip after destroying a tunnel built under it by the Hamas Movement. Tuesday's opening restores Gaza's main point of entry of humanitarian aid. Israel temporarily closed the Kerem Shalom border...

The UAE will lodge a complaint with the International Civil Aviation Organization after Qatari jets came within little more than three kilometers of Emirati passenger flights, its civil aviation chief said Tuesday. "Today we will file our complaint to the International Civil Aviation...

A huge fire destroyed most of a Dutch colonial heritage site dating back to the 17th century, including a maritime museum, in the north of the capital Jakarta on Tuesday. Television images showed flames ripping through the red-tiled roof of the whitewashed rectangular buildings. No...

Pakistani prison authorities and a lawyer say a radical, anti-U.S. cleric imprisoned since 2009 has left the jail in Peshawar after a court ordered him released this month on health grounds. The 93-year-old Sufi Mohammad went to Afghanistan with thousands of other armed volunteers to...

The House Intelligence Committee is poised to question Steve Bannon, the onetime confidant to President Donald Trump, following his spectacular fall from power after accusing the president's son and others of "treasonous" behavior for taking a meeting with Russians during the 2016 campaign....

  Lebanese authorities have banned Steven Spielberg's latest film, political thriller "The Post", and Australian drama "Jungle" to comply with a boycott of Israel, an official told AFP Monday. "Screening of the film 'The Post' has been banned," said the official from Lebanon's...

Egypt’s president Monday sought to defuse tensions with  Ethiopia  and Sudan, reassuring them that his country was not meddling in their internal affairs or planning to go to war against them. Egypt has expressed mounting alarm over a soon-to-be-completed upstream dam in...

The man who mowed down pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge before killing a police officer outside Britain's parliament last year had taken steroids beforehand, a London court heard Monday. Last March Khalid Masood, 52, killed four people on the bridge before, armed with two...

Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani held talks in Turkey Monday with his chief ally President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as tensions again surged between the emirate and its regional foes. The talks, announced only hours in advance, got under way at Erdogan's presidential palace in the...

Yemen's Houthi rebels have released a prominent activist nearly six months after detaining him. International rights groups had appealed for Hisham al-Omeisy's release since he was detained on Aug. 14 in Sanaa, the rebel-held capital. Al-Omeisy's brother, Essam, said he was released...

Britain scrambled two Royal Air Force Typhoon jets Monday from Scotland to intercept Russian planes near the United Kingdom's airspace, a defense ministry spokesman said. The Typhoons were scrambled from RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland. "This is a live operation and therefore...