The Australian Federal Police said on Saturday it had charged a 43-year-old Iraqi man for his part in allegedly organizing a people smuggling venture that led to the deaths of more than 350 asylum seekers when their boat sank in 2001. The man was taken into custody at Brisbane Airport late...

Spain's city of Barcelona lived its most violent day on Friday since protests began against the ruling issued by the country's Supreme Court that sentenced nine Catalan independence leaders last Monday, with sentences between nine to 13 years in prison. The riots began in the Via Layetana...

The Lebanese army moved to end a wave of protests against tax increases and alleged official corruption Saturday as the fragile governing coalition fractured over promised economic reforms. Troops reopened some major highways that had been blocked by protesters after firing tear gas and...

Supporters of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement made their presence felt Friday as the Brooklyn Nets played their first game in New York since they were caught in the middle of the NBA's rift with China. Tensions between Beijing and the American basketball league erupted this month after...

British MPs gather Saturday for a historic vote on Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal - a decision that could see the UK leave the EU this month or plunge the country into fresh uncertainty. The House of Commons is holding its first Saturday sitting since the 1982 Falklands War to...

US astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir became the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalk Friday, a historic milestone as NASA prepares to send the first woman to the Moon. The mission was originally planned for earlier this year but had to be aborted due to a lack of...

At least 62 people were killed and dozens wounded by a blast inside an Afghan mosque during Friday prayers, officials said, a day after the United Nations said violence in the country had reached "unacceptable" levels. The explosion, which witnesses said collapsed the mosque's roof,...

The bodyguards of former MP Misbah al-Ahdab opened fire on protesters in Tripoli’s Al-Nour Square Friday, injuring at least one person.

The United States imposed tariffs on a record $7.5 billion worth of European Union goods on Friday, despite threats of retaliation, with Airbus, French wine and Scottish whiskies among the high-profile targets. The tariffs, which took effect just after midnight in Washington (0401 GMT),...

Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of protesters in Beirut early Friday after they tried to push through security barriers around the government headquarters amid some of the largest demonstrations the country has seen in years. The protests erupted over the...

Three head-to-heads for the Rugby World Cup quarter-final between England and Australia in Oita on Saturday: - Dan Biggar v Romain Ntamack - With a decade in age separating the pair, the fly-half battle is between youth and experience, as Dan Biggar and Romain Ntamack wrestle...

The Lebanese government faced calls to resign Thursday after thousands of furious demonstrators took to the streets across the country to protest dire economic conditions. Public anger has simmered since parliament passed an austerity budget in July to help trim a ballooning deficit and...

Police fire tear gas at rioting protesters near govt seat in central Beirut

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused on Thursday the U.S. military diplomats of trying to get to the Russian defense installations "on a regular basis". The latest attempt took place on Oct. 14, when three U.S. attaches tried to get to a shooting ground near northern...

Venezuela is vying for a seat on UN Human Rights Council Thursday over opposition from advocacy groups and fellow Latin American countries as the General Assembly chooses 14 new members of the panel. The Geneva-based council works to promote and protect human rights around the world. It has...

China called for foreign governments not to interfere in its affairs Thursday, after a Norwegian politician nominated the "people of Hong Kong" for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. Semi-autonomous Hong Kong has been hit by months of pro-democracy protests, which Beijing has portrayed as riots...

China on Thursday slammed as "groundless" a US decision to order Chinese diplomats to notify the State Department before meeting with local officials, in the latest spat to strain bilateral relations. Washington -- which called the move "reciprocal" -- announced the decision Wednesday in...

A Russian protester who faces up to five years in prison for throwing a plastic bottle at police said Thursday he fled the country amid an unrelenting crackdown on the opposition. Aidar Gubaidulin, a 26-year-old programmer, was among more than a dozen people who were arrested following...

Banks aiding a stock market float for Saudi oil giant Aramco will be "devoid of all sincerity" regarding environmental and social concerns, green and rights groups jointly said Thursday. Addressing directly chief executives of Bank of America, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC,...

An "unprecedented" number of civilians were killed or wounded in Afghanistan from July to September this year, the United Nations said in a new report released Thursday, calling the violence "totally unacceptable". The figures -- 1,174 deaths and 3,139 injured -- represent a 42 percent...