The U.S. State Department said it began fully implementing President Donald Trump's travel ban targeting six Muslim-majority countries on Friday, four days after the Supreme Court ruled the order could be enforced while legal appeals continue. Trump's order, which calls for "enhancing...
A deal on Brexit divorce terms guarantees there will be "no hard border" between EU member Ireland and British-ruled Northern Ireland, Prime Minister Theresa May said Friday. "In Northern Ireland we will guarantee there will be no hard border," May told a news conference with European...
Israel deployed hundreds of additional police officers on Friday following Palestinian calls for protests after the main weekly Muslim prayers against US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. "Several hundred additional police and border police have been...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday held a phone conversation to discuss the U.S.'s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, according to Turkish presidential sources. The phone conversation comes a day after Donald Trump announced...
A Western-backed Saudi-led coalition scored its first major gains in Yemen since former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was killed Monday when local fighters captured an area on the Red Sea coast from Houthi rebels, residents said on Thursday. Local fighters loyal to Saleh, who was killed...
Clashes between hundreds of Palestinian protesters and Israeli troops erupted across the West Bank on Thursday while demonstrators in Gaza burned posters of President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as Israeli and U.S. flags. The leader of the Hamas...
Muslims across the Middle East warned Wednesday of disastrous consequences after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but in a region more divided than ever, many asked what leaders can do beyond the vehement rhetoric. Arab powerhouses are mired in their own...
The Islamist group Hamas urged Palestinians on Thursday to abandon peace efforts and launch a new uprising against Israel in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as its capital. The Israeli military said it was reinforcing troops in the occupied West Bank,...
Hamas leader Ismail Haniya calls for a new Palestinian intifada, or uprising, over US President Donald Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, AFP reported. President Donald Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy on Wednesday and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of...
Bitcoin soared to a record high of $14,047.40 on Thursday, continuing its surge from below $1,000 at the beginning of the year. The cryptocurrency was last up 2.94 percent at $14,030.00 at the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange BTC=BTSP. Reporting by the Tokyo markets team;...
President Donald Trump reversed decades of U.S. policy on Wednesday and recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in defiance of warnings from around the world that the gesture risks creating further unrest in the Middle East. In a speech at the White House, Trump said his...
Sexual harassment in the workplace comes at an emotional and financial cost for victims, offenders and companies. But quantifying that cost is not a perfect science. For victims, there’s the incalculable cost of the emotional and mental stress, but how do you put a price tag on lost job...
U.S. plans to move its Israel embassy to Jerusalem are a sign of incompetence and failure, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday. U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will...
President Emmanuel Macron visited Algeria on Wednesday where he pressed for a new chapter in relations and said he would not be held hostage by France’s colonial past, in remarks published by a local newspaper. The French leader is in the capital Algiers for talks with President...
President Donald Trump will announce on Wednesday that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and will move its embassy there, breaking with longtime U.S. policy and potentially stirring unrest. Despite warnings from Western and Arab allies, Trump in a 1...
A bomb rigged to a motorcycle exploded in a militant-plagued part of northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing nine people, officials said on Wednesday, the latest violence in a recent rise in attacks in the nuclear-armed country. The bomb was detonated by remote control late...
Iran’s foreign ministry denied on Wednesday U.S. accusations that the Islamic Republic is playing a destabilizing role in the region, state media reported. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had said on Tuesday that Iran is carrying out “destabilizing actions” by supporting Hezbollah...
Jordan’s King Abdullah told U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday that any move by the United States to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel would have “dangerous repercussions” for regional stability, a Jordanian palace statement said. Trump said he intended to go ahead with a...
Egyptian authorities have arrested former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, who was convicted on corruption charges earlier this year, local security sources said Tuesday. “The ministry discovered where al-Adly was hiding and moved to arrest him with a view to implementing court rulings...
The U.S. is only sending military equipment -- and not ground forces -- to Iraq's northern Kirkuk province, Douglas Silliman, Washington’s ambassador to Baghdad, said Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference convened in Baghdad, the diplomat said they had had ground forces in Kirkuk for a...
