Russia is ready to normalize relations with the United States and to cooperate on major global issues, Moscow's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a phone call on Friday. Lavrov told Tillerson that Moscow's decision to cut U.S. diplomatic staff...
High-ranking Iraqi security officials say up to 7,000 Daesh (ISIS) affiliates remain in Iraq after the fall of Mosul, where the group’s leader declared the self-styled caliphate three years ago. Three intelligence and defense officials also told the Associated Press there are an estimated...
They have played Super Bowls, World Series and NBA championships in Miami but Saturday football, and one of the sport’s great rivalries, will be the hot ticket when Real Madrid and Barcelona meet in a rare El Clasico away from Spanish soil. The match marks just the second time, and first in...
A man wielding a large kitchen knife stormed into a supermarket in the German city of Hamburg on Friday, killing one person and wounding four others before being detained by police. "There is no valid information yet on the motive" of the man, who "entered a supermarket and suddenly began...
Romania said Friday it had blocked a Moldova-bound plane carrying Russia's deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin from entering its airspace because of an EU travel ban linked to sanctions over the Ukraine crisis. "We confirm that the plane was not allowed to fly over Romanian airspace," the...
South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered discussions to be held with the United States on deploying additional THAAD anti-missile defense units following North Korea's test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, his office said on Saturday. Moon also wanted the United Nations...
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager and wounded seven others Friday during clashes near the border fence in Gaza, said the health ministry of Hamas. Abdulrahman Abu Hmeisa, 16, was killed in the clashes east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, ministry...
The United States hit Iran with new ballistic missiles sanctions in response to its launch of a satellite-carrying rocket into space a day earlier. The sanctions target six Iranian subsidiaries of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group. The Treasury Department says that group is "central" to...
Russia's FSB security agency said Friday it had detained seven nationals from Central Asia who were "preparing terrorist attacks" in Saint Petersburg, which suffered a metro bombing in April 2017. Those held were suspected of planning to hit "the railway system and major public gathering...
Germany warned Friday that it would not accept any new U.S. sanctions against Russia that targeted European companies at the same time. Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel underlined the importance of applying economic pressure on Russia over its involvement in the Ukrainian conflict. But he...
Protesters gathered near the Israeli Embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman on Friday, angry that an Israeli embassy guard who shot dead a Jordanian national had returned to Israel and been granted diplomatic immunity. A Reuters witness said around 200 people had assembled peacefully in the...
An international animal welfare charity was on Friday completing the evacuation of a dozen animals stranded in a neglected zoo in the conflict-torn Aleppo province of northern Syria. The Four Paws group was seeking to move two lions and two domestic dogs from the "Magic World" zoo and...
Libya's U.N.-backed unity government chief has denied that an agreement has been struck with Rome to deploy Italian vessels in Libyan waters to combat human trafficking. Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj "denies having asked Italy to send naval vessels into Libya's territorial waters ... or...
Jordan will not allow the return of Israel's ambassador until the shooting of two Jordanians by an embassy security guard has been properly investigated, a government official said Friday. "Jordan will not allow ambassador Einat Shlein or the rest of the embassy staff to return until a...
Russia's Foreign Ministry has ordered a reduction in the number of U.S. diplomats in Russia and said it was closing down a U.S. recreation retreat in response to fresh sanctions against Russia. The Senate on Friday approved a new package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and...
Turkey's state-run news agency says a boat carrying migrants to a Greek island has sunk, killing five children and two adults on board. Anadolu Agency says the boat sank off the Turkish resort of Cesme late on Thursday. Nine other people - four Iraqis, three Somalis and two Syrians - were...
The Senate's decisive vote to approve a new package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea sends the popular bill to President Donald Trump. He will be under pressure to sign it after weeks of intense negotiations. Trump's likelihood of supporting the measure is a...
A commuter train crashed into a railway buffer in Barcelona's Francia station, injuring 48 people, five of those seriously, emergency services said on Friday. There were no deaths reported. At least 18 of the injured need hospital attention, emergency services said. The driver was among the...
Israel sent extra police into Jerusalem on Friday and said men under the age of 50 would be banned from the Old City's Al-Aqsa mosque for the day in anticipation of more mass protests. Tensions have been high at the compound for two weeks, often erupting into clashes, after two Israeli...
Al-Qaeda said for the first time it is active in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, announcing Thursday on a linked propaganda network that a militant from an indigenous rebel group would lead a new outfit of fighters opposing Indian rule in the disputed region. The announcement was...
