The World Health Organization should expand its donor base to better withstand the "shock" from planned deep budget cuts in Washington, Tedros Adhanom, the newly elected agency head, said Wednesday. A day after he became the first African to head the WHO, the former Ethiopian health minister...

Iraq's Interior Ministry says it has launched an investigation into allegations of human rights violations perpetrated by its forces fighting ISIS in Mosul. The allegations were first reported by Germany's Der Spiegel magazine last weekend. Read More: Unknown assailants kill FSA...

Russia's defense minister says the military has received a steady flow of new weapons allowing it to maintain a "strategic parity" with NATO. Sergei Shoigu said in Wednesday's speech before lawmakers that Russia's nuclear forces have been equipped with the new Yars intercontinental ballistic...

The attack on a Manchester pop concert that killed 22 people was "likely" the work of more than one person, British interior minister Amber Rudd said Wednesday. "It was a devastating occasion, it was more sophisticated than some of the attacks we've seen before, and it seems likely --...

ISIS has claimed its first suicide attack in Somalia, which police said Wednesday killed five people at a checkpoint in the northeastern port city of Bosaso. The group's self-styled news agency Amaq claimed the "martyrdom-seeking operation with an explosive vest" in a statement carried by...

Turkish authorities ordered the detention of 139 staff from Ankara municipalities and two ministries in an investigation targeting supporters of the U.S.-based cleric accused of being behind last July's failed coup, CNN Turk said on Wednesday. Since the attempted putsch, authorities have...

Soldiers were being deployed to key sites in Britain on Wednesday to prevent attacks after the terror threat level was raised to its highest level following a suicide bombing in Manchester that killed 22 people, including children. Prime Minister Theresa May announced late on Tuesday that...

 U.S. President Donald Trump met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday in a keenly-anticipated first face-to-face encounter between two world leaders who have clashed repeatedly on several issues. The private audience with the pontiff, which was expected to last around 20 minutes,...

Sherpa rescuers have found the bodies of four climbers inside a tent on the highest camp on Mount Everest, raising the death toll this climbing season to 10, authorities said Wednesday. The bodies were found by a team of rescuers who were there to recover the body of a Slovak mountaineer who...

Flying objects that prompted South Korean forces to fire warning shots this week appeared to be balloons carrying propaganda leaflets from the North, Seoul's military said Wednesday. On Tuesday the defense ministry said troops had opened fire when an unidentified flying object entered the...

British police Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who killed 22 people, including children, in an attack on a crowded concert hall in Manchester, and said they were trying to establish whether he had acted alone or with help from others. The man suspected of carrying out Britain’s...

Donald Trump on Tuesday arrived in Rome for a high-profile meeting with Pope Francis in what was his first official trip to Europe since becoming US President. Trump, on a tour that has already taken him to Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Palestinian territories, touched down in the Italian...

Egyptian prosecutors on Tuesday ordered the detention for one day of an opposition leader widely tipped to challenge President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi in 2018 elections following a complaint that he made an obscene finger gesture on the street outside a Cairo courtroom in January, according to one...

US President Donald Trump's emphatic embrace of Sunni Arab regimes and his vilification of Iran mark a stark departure from the vision of his predecessor Barack Obama in the volatile region, analysts say. Pointedly delivering his first foreign speech in Riyadh on Sunday, Trump praised the...

The United Nations is working to obtain security assurances needed to dispatch an international team of experts to the site of last month's suspected sarin gas attack in Syria, a UN official said Tuesday. At least 88 people died in the April 4 alleged attack at Khan Sheikhoun, in rebel-held...

The United States' top intelligence official says the U.S. government has not yet verified that ISIS is responsible for the attack in Manchester, England, but called the deadly incident a reminder of how serious the terror threat remains. "This threat is real, it's not going away, and it...

 Myanmar's top Buddhist body has banned hardline group Ma Ba Tha, according to a document sent out on Tuesday, a move aimed at curbing the movement's influence amid rising Islamophobia. Myanmar has been gripped by deepening religious tensions that have repeatedly spilled into violence,...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir accused Egypt on Tuesday of supporting rebels at war with Khartoum, a week ahead of a visit to Cairo by Sudan's foreign minister aimed at easing tensions between the neighboring states. Egypt and Sudan have been at odds in recent months over a litany of...

The Eiffel Tower's lights will be turned off at midnight Tuesday in homage to victims of the Manchester Arena attack that claimed at least 22 lives, the Paris mayor said. In Britain's deadliest terror attack in 12 years, police said a man detonated a bomb in the northwest English city at a...

Suspected oil rebels attacked a gas pipeline in Nigeria's restive south, breaking a fragile truce between them and the government, an oil company spokesman told AFP Tuesday. The attack on a pipeline operated by the Nigerian Gas Company Limited, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum...