Pope Francis on Monday met Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was expected to seek an apology over the abuse of indigenous Canadians at church-run boarding schools. A Canadian truth and reconciliation commission sought an apology from the Roman Catholic church in an extensive list...

Egypt's Interior Minister on Monday ordered the transfer of Minya's security chief after militants shot dead 29 Christians in the southern province, the first disciplinary action taken in response to the incident. Masked gunmen on Friday boarded vehicles taking Coptic Christians to a...

 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry discussed the conflicts in Libya and Syria as they met in Cairo on Monday, the foreign ministry there said. Lavrov and Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu were also due to meet President Abdel Fattah...

Romanian border police say they have detained 11 Syrian and Iraqi migrants who are suspected of trying to illegally cross the border and reach the Schengen zone. Police said in a statement Monday that a man with both Romanian and Hungarian citizenship is also being investigated for migrant...

Defeated hardline candidate Ebrahim Raisi has complained of voter fraud in Iran's presidential election and called on the judiciary and the election watchdog to investigate, the semi-official Fars news agency said on Monday. The allegations, likely to stoke up Raisi's conservative...

Violence erupted at demonstrations against power cuts in several towns in northwestern Pakistan Monday, leading to clashes with police that killed a protester and wounded several, officials said. Hundreds of protesters burned and rampaged through government offices and police checkpoints,...

Tunisian security forces have killed a leader of ISIS who was plotting attacks during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, authorities said Monday. The interior ministry did not identify the suspect, but said he was a leading member of ISIS and "dangerous" and was killed in an operation...

( Al-Monitor )- Hamidreza Azizi explains that the Russian proposal for de-escalation or safe zones in Syria “is not only the best approach for Moscow and Tehran to preserve their core interests in the country, but it could also act as a factor that brings the two countries even closer together.”...

Tens of thousands of civilians in parts of Mosul held by ISIS are struggling to get food, water and medicine, the United Nations said, days into a new push by U.S.-backed Iraqi government troops to take the northern city. Up to 200,000 people still live behind ISIS lines in Mosul's Old City...

 (Zaman A Wasl)-  Three Hezbollah officials were killed on Sunday in a car accident in Lebanon on the Bint Jbail-Tayriyeh subhway amid claims of assassination act, Lebanese news feed said Janoubia news site, a critical media outlet to Hezbollah, assured that the deaths...

Protesters have rallied for a third night running in Morocco's city of Al-Hoceima, in a northern region of the country where there has been growing social unrest. An AFP journalist saw several hundred mainly young demonstrators gathered in two neighborhoods of the city Sunday night, chanting...

( The Guardian )- Secretary of Defense James Mattis said on Sunday the US had “accelerated” its tactics against the Islamic State, moving from a policy of “attrition” to one of “annihilation”. The retired Marine Corps general also said “civilian casualties are a fact of life in this sort of...

Britain's MI5 is to hold an inquiry into how it dealt with public warnings that the Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi posed a potential threat, the BBC reported Monday. MI5 was alerted to Abedi's extremist views at least three times, the BBC said. It is highly unusual for British...

Warplanes carried out three airstrikes on the Libyan city of Derna Monday, a witness said, days after Egypt launched strikes on militant camps there against those it said were responsible for killing Egyptian Christians. On Friday, Egyptian fighter jets struck Derna just hours after masked...

French President Emmanuel Macron's party is expected to emerge with the most seats in June's parliamentary election, a poll showed Monday, with Macron also scoring well in terms of general popularity. The Odoxa poll for France Inter radio and L'Express magazine said Macron's start-up...

A White House in crisis scrambled to allay public concern over reports that Donald Trump's son-in-law sought a secret communications link to Russia -- a bombshell allegation the U.S. president swatted down as "fabricated." After returning late Saturday from his first foreign trip as...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged European Union nations to stick together in the face of emerging policy divisions with the U.S., Britain's decision to leave the bloc and other challenges. Speaking at a campaign event held in a Bavarian beer tent, Merkel suggested that the G-7...

 British police said on Sunday they had arrested a 14th person in connection with the Manchester suicide bombing, and were searching a property in the south of the city. The 25-year-old man was arrested in the southwest of Manchester "on suspicion of offences contrary to the terrorism...

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika sacked his tourism minister Sunday days after he was appointed to the post, the presidency said, with one television channel claiming he had a criminal record. A terse statement from the presidency, carried by the APS news agency, did not say why...

The head of Palestinian Islamic courts on Sunday told judges not to grant divorces over Ramadan, fearing the month-long fast could spark rash words that would be regretted later. Judge Mahmud Habash said he based his ruling on "the experience of previous years" when he found that the...