Net migration to Britain in the year to March 2017 fell by 81,000 to 246,000 people, with more than half the drop due to an increase in the number of EU citizens leaving Britain and fewer arriving, official data showed on Thursday. Net migration of European Union citizens fell by 51,000 to...

The death toll from floods sweeping South Asia has climbed above 1,000, officials said Thursday, as rescue teams try to reach millions stranded by the region's worst monsoon disaster in recent years. Thousands of soldiers and emergency personnel have been deployed across India, Bangladesh...

A citizenship crisis will loom over the Australian government for at least another two months after a court said on Thursday it would not begin hearings into the parliamentary eligibility of seven lawmakers until mid-October. Australia's parliament has been rocked by the revelation that the...

Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis descended on Sanaa in a show of support for ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, whose party is on Thursday marking 35 years since its founding. The rally comes amid reports that armed supporters of Saleh and the head of the country's Huthi rebels, who have been...

A 1,500-year-old mosaic floor with a Greek inscription has been uncovered during works to install communications cables in Jerusalem's Old City - a rare discovery of an ancient relic and an historic document in one. The inscription cites 6th-century Roman emperor Justinian as well as...

( Financial Times )- For years, Ammar’s tiny money transfer shop in the Turkish city of Antakya caught no one’s attention but the fellow Syrian refugees who pressed inside to send and receive money from abroad, until this summer, when security officials started visiting every week. “I’ve had...

US President Donald Trump's UN envoy Nikki Haley told the world's atomic watchdog Wednesday that Washington has "concerns" about Iran's adherence to the 2015 nuclear deal. Haley "praised the IAEA's technical expertise and its credibility, professionalism and seriousness in conducting its...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday Donald Trump must be shown appropriate respect for holding the office of the U.S. president, even if she may differ with him on policy issues. Merkel, campaigning for a fourth term in office after a Sept. 24 national election, has refused to bend to...

( The Guardian )- Egypt has called off a scheduled meeting between its foreign minister and top US presidential adviser Jared Kushner after the US decided to withhold millions of dollars in aid. However, the office of the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said he would meet the US...

Police in northeastern Spain said Wednesday they found a belt charged with real explosives in a house where a fatal explosion last week derailed the initial plans by an extremist cell to strike with bombs in Barcelona rather than vehicle attacks that eventually killed 14 people. A 15th victim...

 At least 11 people were beheaded Wednesday in an attack on a checkpoint controlled by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar south of Tripoli, a spokesman for his forces said. "At least nine soldiers were beheaded... in addition to two civilians killed in the same way" at the...

Turkey's foreign minister has reiterated his country's demand that the Iraqi Kurds cancel a scheduled referendum for independence. Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Baghdad that Turkey's expectation from Irbil, the capital of the autonomous northern Iraqi Kurdish region, is "very plain and...

The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group said Wednesday it had lost 10 fighters in battles to stop a "growing force" of radical militants who support Daesh (ISIS). The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is seeking to prevent the militants from gaining a foothold in an area of Mindanao island...

 Police on Wednesday widened their probe into a terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week, after a suspect admitted the extremists were targeting monuments in Barcelona in an even bigger attack. Officers carried out new raids overnight to root out a possible support network...

 Several people including civilians were killed in an air raid Wednesday on the Yemeni capital, witnesses and local media said. A television channel run by the country's Huthi rebels, who control Sanaa, reported more than 30 civilians killed in a raid by the Saudi-led military coalition...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is "starting to respect" the United States, President Donald Trump declared, even as Pyongyang revealed plans for its missile development Wednesday and Kim ordered a production boost. Trump's remarks, at a rally in Phoenix, came hours after Secretary of State...

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis arrived in Ankara on Wednesday for talks with Turkish leaders expected to focus on Washington's arming of a Syrian Kurdish militia, which Turkey views as a terror group, in the fight against Daesh (ISIS). Mattis flew in for the one-day visit after stopping in Iraq...

Turkey's prime minister said Wednesday he wants to double trade volume with Vietnam to $4 billion in the next three years as his country seeks to boost cooperation with the Southeast Asian country. Binali Yildirim was making his first visit to Vietnam as prime minister, accompanied by a...

A Taliban suicide bomber killed five civilians and wounded 25 others in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, an official said. The attack by the insurgents comes a day after U.S. President Donald Trump cleared the way for thousands more American troops to be sent to the war-torn country....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that he is concerned Iran and its Shiite allies are expanding their presence in Syria as Moscow works to tamp down the Syrian civil war, Israeli officials said. Russia has been the main broker...