Iraqi security officials say one protester has been shot and killed during demonstrations in the capital of Baghdad. The officials say the protester was killed near the gate leading to the city's heavily fortified Green Zone. It's the first death in the new round of anti-government...

LONDON (AP) — European Union ambassadors agreed Friday that the bloc should grant Britain's request for another extension to the Brexit deadline but have not yet figured out how long that delay should be. Speaking Friday in Brussels after EU ambassadors met with the EU Brexit chief...

In an unmarked villa, nestled amid homes in an upscale Dubai neighborhood, a congregation prays in the first fully functioning synagogue in the Arabian Peninsula in decades. Though its members keep its precise location secret, the synagogue's existence and the tacit approval it has...

Fresh anti-government protests erupted in Iraq on Friday, with at least two deaths reported after Iraqi police fired live rounds into the air along with tear gas canisters to disperse thousands of protesters in Baghdad. Iraqi police fired live shots into the air and dozens of tear gas...

Anti-government rallies have renewed across Iraq, the second phase of protests that turned deadly earlier this month and which could balloon after the endorsement of populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Iraq was rocked by demonstrations in early October, first denouncing corruption and...

The UN said Thursday it would send a special mission to Chile to investigate allegations of human rights abuses, as the South American country is rocked by deadly anti-government protests. "Having monitored the crisis in Chile since it began, I have decided to send a verification mission to...

Days after the global cinema release of the film 'Joker', the distinctive face of the titular comic-book villain began appearing in political demonstrations all over the world. It's still an underground phenomenon, but does this represent a new form of protest like the wearing of the ‘V for...

French media firms said Thursday that they would drag Google before the country's competition regulator over its refusal to pay for displaying their content in search results, setting up a legal fight over a new EU copyright law. The APIG press alliance, which groups dozens of national and...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Thursday for a general election on Dec. 12 to break Britain’s Brexit impasse, a goal the leader has sought but so far failed to push through parliament. Johnson said in a letter to opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn he would hand parliament more...

Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters, some waving Catalan flags and banners urging “a fight for freedom together”, rallied in support of a separate Catalonia on Thursday, broaching an issue that is anathema to Hong Kong’s Communist Party leaders in Beijing. In Hong Kong’s pro-democracy...

Strikes are keeping classrooms shut at the start of the school year in Libya as teachers seek better pay from a budget under strain from a massive public salary bill and renewed conflict. State-run schools were meant to open on Oct. 13, but teachers angered by falling living conditions and...

Turkey's central bank slashed rates by a more than expected 250 points to 14 percent Thursday, taking advantage of an inflation dip and a steadier lira after Washington cancelled just-announced sanctions over a military incursion into Syria. The bank lowered its benchmark one-week repo rate...

Real Madrid's Sergio Ramos has confirmed he has been fined by Spanish tax authorities for irregularities relating to his image rights between 2012 and 2014. According to the newspaper El Mundo, Ramos was fined one million euros for transferring revenue to his own company Sermos 32 SL, which...

Chinese embassy staff are heading to Essex in Britain to verify reports that 39 people found dead in a truck were its nationals, the foreign ministry said Thursday. The victims were discovered in a container on the back of a truck in Grays, east of London, on Wednesday, shortly after...

Lebanese President Michel Aoun broke his silence after a week of unprecedented protests Thursday, expressing willingness to meet demonstrators. "I am ready to meet your representatives... to hear your demands," he said in a short televised speech, his first since daily street protests began...

Islamabad and New Delhi signed an agreement Thursday on a visa-free corridor between the two countries that will allow Sikh pilgrims in India to visit the shrine to their religion's founder, which is in Pakistan. The Kartarpur Corridor deal -- a rare example of cooperation between the...

An ancient tomb in Jerusalem prized for its archaeological and religious importance was reopened for visits Thursday by France, which owns it, after a dispute over access scuttled an earlier attempt. The site known as the Tomb of the Kings in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem can now be...

The United Kingdom will ultimately leave the European Union on the terms of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal even though parliament has complicated the timing of the divorce, a senior Downing Street source said. “This ends with us leaving with the PM’s deal,” the source, who spoke...

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer met this week with Democratic lawmakers to try to resolve their concerns about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement as Republicans increased pressure to get the deal passed by the end of 2019. Democrats said they were making progress...

Saudi Arabia appointed a prince with diplomatic experience in Western capitals as foreign minister Wednesday in a partial cabinet reshuffle as the kingdom tries to mend its international image and prepares to take over the Group of 20 presidency. Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud had served...