A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods Saturday as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally. The violent day left three dead, dozens injured and this usually quiet college town a bloodied symbol of the nation's roiling racial and...

Several senior members of a central Asian Daesh (ISIS) affiliate were killed in a U.S. air strike in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday. The attack on Thursday killed Abdul Rahman, identified by the U.S. military as the Kunar provincial emir for Daesh in Iraq and Syria-Khorasan, according to...

President Donald Trump on Monday will order his top trade adviser to determine whether to investigate Chinese trade practices that force U.S. firms operating in China to turn over intellectual property, senior administration officials said on Saturday. The move, which could eventually lead...

The United Nations' relationship with Nigeria is intact, a U.N. official said on Saturday, despite a military raid on a compound belonging to the international body in the conflict-ridden northeast. "I am very pleased to report that our relationship of collaboration and trust is intact,"...

Hundreds of people are facing off in Charlottesville ahead of a white nationalist rally planned in the Virginia city's downtown. Rally supporters and counter-protesters screamed, chanted, threw punches, hurled water bottles and unleashed chemical sprays on each other Saturday morning....

The Houthi movement and their foes in Yemen's civil war - the Saudi-led coalition - on Saturday gave conflicting accounts of a Houthi attempt to attack shipping in the Red Sea port of al-Mokha. The Houthi-controlled state news agency SABA said the Houthi navy targeted and hit a warship...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Saturday it was suspending its migrant rescues in the Mediterranean because it felt threatened by the Libyan coastguard and the Italian government's policies have made its job harder. The aid group's decision is the latest development in mounting...

Iran is holding talks with European plane-maker Airbus to buy 48 helicopters for civilian use, an Iranian official was on Saturday quoted as saying, as Iran continues its shopping spree of Western aircraft after the lifting of sanctions. "The Health Ministry is planning to order 45 HEMS...

The Russian government has nominated former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a close friend of President Vladimir Putin, to join the board of Rosneft, the energy giant under Western sanctions. Schroeder was among seven nominees in a decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev...

Around a hundred Barcelona residents gathered on the Spanish city's beach on Saturday to protest the unchecked growth of mass tourism to the popular vacation destination. The protest was organized by a local residents' group under the theme "Recover the beach for everyone!" They say the...

A fighter jet has crash landed at Bahrain International Airport, disrupting flights to and from the island nation. Social media pictures of the crash showed the grey fighter jet's nose tipped into the air but largely intact. Airport officials did not respond to requests for comment...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday warned against an "escalation of tensions" over North Korea amid a growing war of words between Washington and Pyongyang. In a statement, Macron voiced his "concern at the ballistic and nuclear threat coming from North Korea", saying the...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that tension with Europe was due to European domestic politics and relations with Berlin would improve after Germany's parliamentary election in September. Relations between Europe and Turkey, a NATO member and a candidate for European Union...

A Palestinian woman stabbed and wounded an Israeli man in east Jerusalem on Saturday, before she was arrested, police said. They said in an English-language statement that the incident occurred next to the Old City's Damascus Gate, a site of past attacks. The woman, a Jerusalem resident...

At least two people were shot dead in Kenya during protests against the election victory of President Uhuru Kenyatta by opposition supporters who believe the vote was rigged, according to police and a health official. "We have one person killed and four others admitted in hospital with...

Asylum seekers, mainly from Haiti, clambering over a gully from upstate New York into Canada on Friday were undeterred by the prospect of days in border tents, months of uncertainty and signs of a right-wing backlash in Quebec. More than 200 people a day are illegally walking across the U.S....

( The Guardian )- Eurovision song contest winner Conchita Wurst has cancelled her performance at the Edinburgh festival after her band members were denied visas. The Austrian drag queen had been due to perform at the Friday night showing of New European Songbook alongside her Syrian...

( Al-Monitor )- A State Department review that faulted the agency for failing to comply with its own policies for overseeing bomb disposal grants in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan won’t impact ongoing efforts to remove improvised explosive devices left behind by the Islamic State (IS), officials...

Hezbollah and its allies are pressing the Lebanese state to normalize relations with President Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria, testing Lebanon's policy of "dissociation" from the Syrian conflict and igniting a political row. Calls for closer ties with the Syrian government, including...

 Iran hit back Friday at Donald Trump's warnings on Tehran's ballistic missiles programme, accusing the US president of showing "bad faith" over the 2015 nuclear accord. "POTUS (president of the United States) always wanted to kill" the deal, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif...