It may not be necessary to expand a ban on laptops and other large electronics in the cabins of many international flights into the United States right now, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said Tuesday. Kelly didn't rule out an expansion from 10 current airports, mostly in the Middle...

North Korea has released Otto Warmbier, a U.S. university student who has been held captive there since January 2016, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. Warmbier, a University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati, is on his way back to the United States, Tillerson...

Rome mayor Virginia Raggi, a prominent member of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, has asked the government not to send any more asylum seekers to the capital, saying it is already groaning under the strain. The request was made public on Tuesday, after 5-Star took a drubbing at local...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday criticized a federal appeals court one day after it handed him another legal setback by refusing to revive his U.S. travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority nations, and appeared poised for the nation's top court to weigh in. On Monday, the San...

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo was on Tuesday accused of evading 14.7 million euros in tax through offshore companies, the latest footballer to fall foul of fiscal authorities in Spain. The 32-year-old -- the world's highest paid athlete according to Forbes magazine -- follows in the...

( The Guardian )- At least two people have been killed and hundreds are undergoing treatment after a mass food poisoning at a camp for displaced people near the Iraqi city of Mosul. “There are 752 cases of food poisoning and two death, a woman and a child” following a meal on Monday night,...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday said Saudi Arabia was supporting militants inside Iran, days after hardline Sunni group ISIS claimed attacks in Tehran. Relations between the two neighbors are at their most tense in years. Last week Riyadh, along with other Arab...

France has launched a judicial inquiry into the Syrian activities of French-Swiss cement and construction giant LafargeHolcim, Paris prosecutors said on Tuesday. Three judges -- one dealing with anti-terrorism matters and two financial judges -- would handle the probe, which was opened on...

Iraqi forces on Tuesday reported progress in the U.S.-backed campaign to dislodge ISIS from Mosul, announcing the capture of a district just north the city's historic center. With the loss of the Zanjili neighborhood, the enclave still held by ISIS in the northern Iraqi city has shrunk to...

A South Korean professor was injured Tuesday after opening a concealed explosive device brought to his university office in Seoul, police said. The crudely made device was made with explosive powder, four batteries and dozens of bolts that were packed inside a vacuum bottle, and it exploded...

An explosion at the police headquarters of a U.K. military base has slightly injured one policeman and caused minor structural damage, a British spokesman said Tuesday. Kristian Gray said that authorities are treating the pre-dawn explosion at Dhekelia Garrison near Cyprus' southeastern...

A suspected North Korean drone had taken photographs of an advanced U.S. anti-missile battery in South Korea before it crashed on its way home, the South Korean military said on Tuesday. The drone, mounted with a camera, was found last week in a forest near the border with North Korea. It...

Short of newspapers, Venezuelans are getting updates about their country's deadly political crisis live -- acted out by reporters on the bus to work. Maria Gabriela Fernandez and Dereck Blanco stand on board inside a black frame. "El Bus TV," reads a sign over their heads. "Good morning...

Reporting by Mohamed Kassah (Eqtsad)- Agricultural seasons in both summer and winter provide temporary, but often abundant, employment opportunities for Syrians. Idlib province, which is known as the green province in Syria due to the availability of vast agricultural areas has...

An audio message purporting to come from the spokesman of Islamic State called on followers to launch attacks in the United States, Europe, Russia, Australia, Iraq, Syria, Iran, and the Philippines during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which began in late May. The audio clip was...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday blamed the United States for instability in the Middle East and also said Washington's fight against Islamic State Sunni militant group was a lie, his official website reported. "You (the United States) and your agents are the source of...

A second U.S. appeals court on Monday ruled against President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on people entering the United States from six Muslim-majority countries, largely upholding a lower court's decision. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco reviewed a March...

A U.S. government official said on Monday U.S. immigration agents are conducting targeted operations to arrest Iraqi immigrants who had been ordered deported after committing serious crimes, the result of a deal struck after Iraq was dropped from a list of countries targeted by President Donald...

The attorneys general of Maryland and the District of Columbia on Monday filed a lawsuit claiming that government payments to President Donald Trump's businesses violate the U.S. Constitution. Payments to the president's enterprises from foreign and domestic governments through his...

At least 10 people were hurt when a strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck the Aegean coast of western Turkey and the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios on Monday, Greece's ERT state TV reported. The broadcaster said ten people were injured in the village of Vrisa on the island of Lesbos,...