Canada has restricted six chemicals used to make the opioid fentanyl, which has been blamed in thousands of overdose deaths across the country. "This will make it harder to access the chemicals used to make illicit fentanyl, and provide law enforcement with a stronger ability to take action...

Gunfire could be heard over Tripoli on Thursday as armed groups mobilized heavy weapons and took up positions in several parts of the Libyan capital. Militias that hold effective power across the city clash frequently, but the shooting was heavier than usual and tanks and armed convoys could...

A total of 1,600 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed since the start on October 17 of a huge offensive to retake the extremist bastion of Mosul, a spokesman said Thursday. Close to 10,000 peshmerga were also wounded in the six weeks of fierce fighting to oust ISIS from Iraq's...

The UN envoy to Yemen and President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi met Thursday in the southern city of Aden to discuss a new bid to end the country's conflict, a government official said. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who flew in from Riyadh, held several hours of talks with Hadi at the hilltop...

Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc Thursday renewed calls for Cabinet that is formed quickly and represents all of Lebanon’s political factions. In a statement following the bloc’s weekly meeting, MP Hasan Fadlallah said that “prominent political factions in the country should show their...

The United States is "watching very carefully" for Islamic State militants operating outside Sirte as the jihadist group faces defeat in its former North African stronghold, a senior U.S. Department of State official told Reuters. Libyan forces have been battling Islamic State in Sirte for...

Turkey arrested 365 suspected Daesh terrorists last month, the Interior Ministry said Thursday. The arrests -- which have led to 131 suspects being remanded in custody to face trial -- took place in 12 provinces across the country, including Ankara and Istanbul, in November, the ministry...

Russia will continue its operations in eastern Aleppo and will rescue the Syrian city from terrorists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday during a visit to Turkey. Speaking at a joint press conference after a meeting with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in the...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan explained his comments about a plan to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad in a phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the RIA news agency cited Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov as saying on Thursday. Erdogan said earlier this week his forces in...

Australia's parliament was hit by a second day of protests by anti-offshore detention center activists Thursday with two people abseiling down the building to unfurl a banner reading "close the bloody camps now". While the pair scaled Parliament House a dozen others waded into a forecourt...

For more than a decade, Maria Vazquez's store had a special gift basket to celebrate Fidel Castro's death. For $24.99, it includes a bottle of cider with the label "only open after Fidel's death," and toilet paper bearing the Cuban leader image. She's sold more than 250 since Castro's death...

Warships from Russia's Black Sea Fleet have taken up position off Crimea's western coastline to help strengthen the peninsula's air defenses in response to the start of Ukrainian missile tests nearby, the RIA news agency reported on Thursday. Kiev began two days of missile tests on Thursday,...

(Sky News)- Sky News understands the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has privately told at least four EU ambassadors that he supports freedom of movement - despite the Government's hard stance on Brexit. The high-ranking diplomats were speaking under the Chatham House rule, which allows...

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane's son, Enzo, scored on his senior debut as the European champions brushed aside third tier Cultural Leonesa to progress into the last 16 of the Copa del Rey Wednesday. Enzo, 21, and the oldest of Zidane's four sons, all of whom play at different levels in...

A top UN envoy on Wednesday pleaded with the Security Council to help break the siege of Aleppo, warning that residents of the Syrian city were at risk of extermination. "For the sake of humanity we call on -- we plead -- with the parties and those with influence to do everything in their...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the situation in Syria's Aleppo with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by phone for the third time in a week Wednesday and agreed on the need for a cease-fire, sources in Erdogan's office said. The sources said the two leaders agreed on...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday he would leave his business conglomerate to focus solely on the presidency. “I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump tweeted using his campaign...

Turkey is seeking multiple life sentences for nearly 70 suspects, including the leader of the main Syrian Kurdish political party, over a deadly bombing in Ankara this year blamed on Kurdish militants, state media said Wednesday. Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Salih...

A plane that crashed in the mountains of Colombia, killing 71 people, including members of a Brazilian football team, may have run out of fuel, a Colombian military source told AFP. "It is very suspicious that despite the impact there was no explosion. That reinforces the theory of the lack...

Middle East technology investor iMENA Holdings is planning an initial public offering on an international exchange and possible second listing in the Middle East as early as next year. The company, which invests in online businesses in the Middle East and North Africa, may raise more than...