Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Tugrul Turkes on Saturday criticized Berlin’s ban on Turkish ministers’ rallies in German cities. The move was not “a nice behavior”, Turkes said as he responded to reporters’ questions at Yunus Emre Institute in London, where he is holding contacts....

China pledged more support to its military on Sunday including strengthening maritime and air defenses amid efforts to safeguard sovereignty, but in a highly unusual move did not give spending figures for 2017 despite promises of transparency. Parliament's spokeswoman Fu Ying said on...

Novak Djokovic has lost the tenacity which enabled him to rule men's tennis for a number of years, former mentor Niki Pilic said on Saturday. "Djokovic reached the Mount Everest of tennis last year after winning the French Open," Pilic, who guided the Serb as a junior at his Munich academy,...

The United Nations warned that the alleged use of chemical weapons in Mosul, if confirmed, would be a war crime and a serious violation of international humanitarian law, according to a statement released Saturday. "This is horrible," Lise Grande, the humanitarian coordinator in Iraq said in...

Somalia's prime minister says 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region as a severe drought threatens millions of people. This is the first drought-related death toll announced by Somalia's government since it declared a national disaster on Tuesday. The...

Foreigners aiming for temporary jobs at high-tech U.S. companies will undergo a longer visa approval process after the Trump administration announced it will temporarily suspend expedited applications for H-1B visas. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said Friday that...

East Libyan forces carried out air strikes around major oil ports overnight as they sought to regain control of the area from a rival faction, a military spokesman said on Saturday. The eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) and allied forces retreated on Friday from the oil ports of Es...

An Iraqi minister Saturday sharply criticized U.N. efforts to aid civilians fleeing fighting in west Mosul, even as the United Nations insisted that providing such assistance was the "top priority". Tens of thousands of people have fled west Mosul since Iraqi forces launched an operation to...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is to travel to Russia in the coming weeks for high-level political talks, his office said Saturday. It will be the first time a British minister has been to Moscow for an official visit in more than five years and could signal a potential thaw in...

Iran's advanced S-300 air defense system, delivered by Russia following a July 2015 nuclear deal after years of delay, is now operational, state television reported Saturday. Iran had been trying to acquire the system for years to ward off repeated threats by Israel to bomb its nuclear...

Twelve people, including women and children, are being treated for possible exposure to chemical weapons agents in Mosul, where ISIS is fighting off an offensive by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces, the United Nations said Saturday. The U.N.'s World Health Organization has activated with partners...

 U.S. officials say three Philippine Cabinet members, including the defense chief, have toured a U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling the disputed South China Sea on the invitation of the Navy. U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Molly Koscina says Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana, Finance Secretary...

Jordan hanged 15 death row prisoners at dawn Saturday, its information minister said, in a further break with the moratorium on executions it had observed between 2006 and 2014. Ten of those put to death had been convicted of terrorism offences and five of "heinous" crimes including rape,...

Scandal-hit French conservative candidate Francois Fillon this weekend will bid to keep his presidential hopes alive after more allies abandoned him and a possible replacement to him emerged from the shadows. Fillon will mark his 63rd birthday Saturday, but a day that his entourage would...

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will reply in writing to Senate Democrats' questions about his meetings with Russia's ambassador last year, the Justice Department said Friday after a top Republican denied Democrats' request for a public hearing. Nine Democratic senators sent a letter...

Malaysia on Saturday rejected any suggestion it may have violated sanctions imposed by the United Nations on North Korea, after a Reuters report that North Korea-linked firms were running an arms network in the country. Malaysia has for years been one of the few countries in the world to...

China's sweeping overhaul of its anti-corruption architecture could enable President Xi Jinping to justify retaining his key ally and top graft buster Wang Qishan beyond retirement age, sources with ties to the leadership say. Breaking the unwritten retirement rule could also set a precedent...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday accused Germany of "aiding and harboring terror" and claimed a journalist who was detained this week on terror-related charges was a German agent. "They need to be put on trial for aiding and harboring terror," Erdogan said, criticizing German...

A U.N. chemical weapons watchdog is examining allegations of eight toxic gas attacks in Syria since the beginning of this year, according to a report released Friday. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is tasked with investigating allegations of such attacks in Syria...

 A taxi stops in the small town of Champlain. Loaded down with belongings, a family with two children gets out and hurries to the road's end at a stream marking the US-Canada border. "We are coming all the way from Jersey City," says the father, Mohammed Ahmed. The city near New York is...