Left-wing sympathizers are headed to the polls Sunday to choose two finalists among seven candidates vying for the Socialist Party nomination for president. The primary is open to all who are registered on the party's electoral roll and for a €1 ($1.04) fee, 1.5 million - 2 million voters...

(Sky News)- To the very end nobody was absolutely sure that Yahya Jammeh, The Gambia's president of 22 years, would actually leave. A jet set to take him to Guinea had idled on the runway of the country's main airport in Banjul for seven hours as he continued talks with negotiators about his...

Iraqi forces used to facing deserted, explosives-rigged streets and booby-trapped buildings are discovering fewer bombs planted by jihadists in Mosul than in earlier battles against them. The Islamic State group has no qualms about killing civilians, but the presence of a large number of...

(Sky News)- Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right Front National party, has said the Brexit vote has set off a domino effect that "will bring down all of Europe". She said the British and Americans had pulled off "coups" in 2016 and predicted that 2017 would be the "year the people...

On the first full day as U.S. president, Donald Trump will head to CIA headquarters on Saturday, signaling an effort to mend fences after he slammed spy agencies for their investigation into Russian hacking during the presidential election. Trump engaged in an unprecedented feud with the CIA...

(Time)- In the year since the nuclear deal, Iran's destabilizing presence has grown Just days before Christmas, as U.S. policymakers were settling into the holidays, Iran staged massive war drills, with one of its top military leaders even boasting that the Persian Gulf was within...

The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it will not send a delegation from Washington to attend Syrian peace talks in the Kazakh capital next week due to immediate demands of the transition. The State Department's acting spokesman Mark Toner said U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan, George...

Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday as part of a global day of protests against new US President Donald Trump and his derogatory remarks about women. The largely female crowd, which also had many men and children, marched from the US embassy to Trafalgar Square,...

Gylfi Sigurdsson's decisive goal boosted Swansea's hopes of Premier League survival as they inflicted Liverpool's first home defeat for almost a year with a 3-2 triumph at Anfield Saturday. Iceland international Sigurdsson, who has repeatedly been linked with a move away from the Welsh club,...

Gambians on Saturday awaited the departure of Yahya Jammeh to a life of exile, with some nervousness remaining over a deal reached with west African leaders that headed off a regional military intervention. Jammeh accepted to hand power peacefully to President Adama Barrow, who is waiting in...

Riot police are entering a prison in northeastern Brazil where 26 inmates were killed recently, in an attempt to separate rival gangs inside the complex. A helicopter flew overhead Saturday as an armored vehicle and about 40 police forces including riot police entered the Alcacuz prison...

The EU could soon step up training and equipping Libya's coast guard to crack down on migrant smuggling in the north African nation's waters, according to an EU proposal seen by AFP Saturday. Malta, which holds the current rotating EU presidency, is pitching the idea as a short-term measure...

A car bomb blast killed at least four civilians at a camp for displaced Syrians by the border with Jordan Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights activists said. "A car bomb exploded on the outskirts of the Rukban camp on the Jordanian border, killing four displaced people and...

(Middle East Monitor)- NATO member Denmark will deploy special forces to Syria to fight against Daesh, in an expansion of its role in the US-led operation “Inherent Resolve” against Daesh where it already has ground troops operating in Iraq.”Based on a concrete approach from the coalition, the...

An unidentified gunman attacked police in Istanbul Saturday, the private Dogan News Agency reported, a day after unidentified assailants attacked Istanbul's police headquarters and an office of the ruling AK Party with rocket launchers. There were no reports of casualties in the attack, in...

Protesters set fires and hurled bricks in a daylong assault on the city hosting Donald Trump's inauguration, registering their rage against the new president in a series of clashes that led to more than 200 arrests. Police used pepper spray and stun grenades to prevent the chaos from spilling...

Four people were pulled alive from the wreckage of a luxury hotel that was demolished Wednesday by a deadly avalanche, bringing the number of survivors to nine, the national fire service said Saturday. The two men and two women were extracted from the shattered ruins of Hotel Rigopiano...

The country’s former president who refused to leave office after election defeat in December finally agreed to step down early Saturday. Yahya Jammeh said in a national broadcast he believes no one has to die to solve the political crisis gripping the small West African nation. “As a...

The Turkish parliament approved a constitutional reform bill overnight including strengthening the powers of the presidency, paving the way for a referendum expected in the spring which could see President Tayyip Erdogan in office until 2029. Erdogan says the reform will provide stability in...

An explosion in a busy vegetable market killed at least 21 people on Saturday in Pakistan's remote northwestern tribal region, an official said. About 40 others were wounded in the blast in Kurram region, near the border with Afghanistan, said Sajid Hussain Turi, member of the National...