The speaker of South Africa's parliament said on Sunday she would consider a request from opposition parties to hold a no confidence vote on President Jacob Zuma. Baleka Mbete, who is also the national chairperson of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), made the remarks in a televised...

A leader in ISIS' Egyptian affiliate was killed in an air raid last month, the Egyptian military said Sunday. "Following the results of the air raid on March 18... and upon the security apparatus's investigation, it was revealed that Salem Salmy al-Hamadeen, Aka Abu Anas al-Ansari, was...

A regular poll of German voters shows the nationalist Alternative for Germany party slipping further amid infighting in its ranks, while Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc and its main challenger, the Social Democrats, remain in a dead heat. The Emnid Sunday poll for the Bild...

Spain has said it would not "initially" veto an attempt by an independent Scotland to join the European Union after Britain has left the bloc, its foreign minister said in interview with Spanish newspaper El Pais. Spain has long been seen as an obstacle to an independent Scotland joining the...

Late last year, two American Marxists traveled to northeastern Syria with the goal of experiencing firsthand the egalitarian utopia Syria’s Kurds are seeking to build. Instead, they found themselves fighting on the front lines of a war, against the Islamic State and alongside the agents of...

Incessant rains Sunday halted the search for at least two dozen people missing after a landslide swept into a village on Indonesia's main island of Java. Four excavators working under cloudy skies dredged the mud, sand and rocks, piling the debris up to 20 meters (66 feet) high. Chief of...

Iraq has assured OPEC it will fully comply with an agreement to cut oil supply in order to bolster crude prices, OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said Sunday. Compliance with the deal agreed by OPEC and non-OPEC producers at the end of last year to cut supply is "encouraging",...

(Daily Mail)- A 15-year-old Syrian schoolgirl has been given permission by the German authorities to marry the father of her baby in the latest example of migrant child brides. The authorities in Dusseldorf have decided it is acceptable for the girl to begin 'married life' with her...

AFP's photographer in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, Abdullah Doma, was detained late Saturday for the second time in several days by security services there, his family said. Doma had been released Wednesday night after being held for 24 hours over his coverage of a public concert to...

The hospital in Qayara sometimes receives so many dead bodies that they do not fit in the refrigerator unit and have to be left in the corridors. Inside the mortuary, the dead are simply put on the floor because there are no containers, sometimes piled one on top of the other in a gruesome...

Four civilians were killed in February by U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. military said on Saturday as it updated a tally of accidental deaths in the fight against the Islamic State militants. At least 229 civilians have been unintentionally killed by air strikes since...

President Tayyip Erdogan described himself as a "guardian of peace" on Saturday as he called on Kurds in conflict-torn southeast Turkey to vote "yes" in a referendum in two weeks time on reforms that would grant him sweeping new powers. Since the collapse of a two-year-old cease-fire in July...

A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded outside an Egyptian police training center on Saturday, wounding 16 people, the interior ministry said. The apparent attack in the Nile Delta city of Tanta wounded 13 policemen and three civilian passersby, the ministry said in a statement. Extremists...

British police have arrested 12 people and are taking steps to prevent clashes between far-right groups and anti-fascist demonstrators in London. London's Metropolitan Police imposed conditions on the march and rally Saturday by Britain First and the English Defense League, which is...

(Daily Mail)- ISIS's deputy leader has been killed in air strike in Iraq, it emerged today. Ayad al-Jumaili, was wiped out by the country's air force along with other leaders of the terror group, in the region of al-Qaim, near the border with Syria. Jumaili is believed to be...

Need some election interference? The Russian Foreign Ministry is ready to help – or so it says on April Fools' Day. On Saturday, the ministry posted on its Facebook page an audio file of the purported new automated telephone switchboard message for Russian embassies. "To arrange a call...

Barcelona boss Luis Enrique claimed Lionel Messi's behavior toward referees is "impeccable" despite the Argentine racking up suspensions for club and country. Messi is banned for the first time in five seasons for Sunday's La Liga trip to Granada just days after being slapped with a...

The Pompidou Center modern art museum – one of the biggest tourist draws in the French capital – will remain closed this weekend because of a week-long strike by security guards, its management said. Around 100 guards walked out on Monday over a new law which forces them to become civil...

Tunisian activists say they are frustrated by the slow progress on reforms to improve civil liberties six years after an uprising calling for more freedoms in the North African country. The 2011 revolution that toppled longtime dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ushered in a new era of freedom...

Britain's contribution to European security is "unconditional", Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told a French newspaper, denying the government had made a veiled threat to reduce cooperation if there was no post-Brexit trade deal. Prime Minister Theresa May said in a letter to the European...