Japan called Monday for increased pressure on North Korea, saying this is not a time for dialogue. Government spokesman Norio Maruyama said North Korea reached "a new level" with its latest launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile as Americans celebrated Independence Day on July 4....

At least 15 Yemeni rebels and eight soldiers were killed Monday as government forces attacked insurgent positions in two areas in the southwest of the country, military officials said. Government forces attacked Huthi rebels and their allies, renegade troops loyal to ex-president Ali...

Nearly one in 10 infants received no vaccinations in 2016, meaning that they missed the first inoculation against three lethal diseases, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. A full 12.9 million infants received no vaccinations last year, WHO found in a joint report with the UN's...

The people of war-torn Afghanistan continue to bear the brunt of the grinding conflict with civilian deaths at their worst since records began, the United Nations said Monday. In the first half of the year, 1,662 civilians were killed and more than 3,500 injured with deaths in the capital...

Afghan security forces have retaken a southern district from the Taliban as part of a drive to weaken the insurgents' hold on Helmand province and push them back from around its capital, Lashkar Gah, officials said on Monday. A two-day offensive launched on Saturday saw security forces take...

A U.N. envoy has proposed a plan on giving the world organization a mandate to run a key Yemen port now under control of the country's Houthi rebels. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on Monday that the Hodeida port should be run by a third, neutral party, under U.N. supervision. He spoke...

Turkish-backed rebels clashed with Kurdish fighters from a U.S.-backed alliance in northwestern Syria on Monday in escalating violence between the two sides, officials and a monitoring group said. The clashes took place around the village of Ain Daqna and the nearby Menagh air base north of...

 U.S. attempts to set preconditions for the return of Russian diplomatic property seized in New York and Maryland are "daylight robbery," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, the RIA news agency reported. Barack Obama, then U.S. president, ordered the seizure of two...

Italy's government has delayed a parliamentary vote on a citizenship rights bill as tensions rise over the number of migrants arriving on the country's shores. The proposal to give children born on Italian soil to foreign parents citizenship rights at birth or after at least five years of...

Explosives planted by Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants ripped through a Turkish military vehicle travelling through southeast Turkey on Monday, wounding 17 soldiers, the military said. The vehicle was passing through the Yuksekova district of Hakkari province, which borders Iran and...

A military court convicted a Jordanian soldier on Monday in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers at a Jordanian air base and sentenced him to life in prison with hard labor. The defendant had pleaded "not guilty," saying he opened fire because he feared the base was coming...

Britain says the European Union will sanction 16 Syrians it is convinced are involved in chemical weapons attacks against civilians there, targeting military and scientific officials. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said ahead of Monday's meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers that...

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday began hearings that will decide the future of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is fighting for his job and contesting a damning corruption report by an investigative panel. The Supreme Court is expected to either put Sharif on trial on corruption charges,...

Australia's military will be given greater power to act during terror attacks, the prime minister said Monday, following a review of security forces' responses to a spate of local and international incidents. Among a raft of changes, police will no longer have to wait until they have...

A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said Monday he was 99 percent sure that Daesh (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, after speculation that Baghdadi had been killed. Lahur Talabany also told Reuters that after its defeat Daesh...

Their husbands, sons and brothers are dead, but the women and children Islamic State militants left behind will live to pay the price for their actions. As Islamic State's days of ruling over vast swathes of Iraq come to an end, questions are emerging about what to do with their families....

China's economic growth held steady in the latest quarter, boosted by unexpectedly strong trade and consumer spending, despite fears tighter lending controls aimed at cooling a surge in debt are weighing on commercial activity. Output rose 6.9 percent in the three months ending in June from...

South Korea offered Monday to talk with North Korea to ease animosities along their tense border and resume reunions of families separated by their war in the 1950s. It's unclear if North Korea would agree to the proposed talks as it remains suspicious of the South Korean president's...

Thousands of government opponents gathered in Warsaw and other cities in Poland on Sunday to protest the latest changes in legislation that reorganized the judiciary. The legislation that was adopted last week has drawn condemnation from European Union politicians and from Poland's...

Chanting "freedom!" and waving their country's tri-color flag, thousands of Venezuelans lined up across the country on Sunday to vote in a symbolic rejection of President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution, a proposal that's escalating tensions in a nation stricken by widespread...