At least two people were killed in an armed attack outside a synagogue in eastern Germany, local media reported on Wednesday. The assailants shot at people outside a synagogue in Halle city and threw a hand grenade at a nearby Jewish cemetery, Bild daily reported. Police have confirmed...

Iraq had its calmest night since anti-government protests began more than a week ago over corruption and unemployment. At least 110 people have been killed and more than 6,000 wounded, in the capital Baghdad and the south, since the security forces started cracking down on the...

Lionel Messi has admitted he wanted to leave Barcelona when he was under investigation from the Spanish tax authorities but insists now he intends to finish his career at the club. In an interview with Catalan radio station RAC1, Messi also said he had expected Neymar to sign for Real...

At least 30 civilians were killed when the U.S. bombed several alleged drug making facilities in western Afghanistan in May, a U.N. agency said in a report Wednesday, though the U.S. military immediately disputed the findings. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)...

 Thousands of Iranian women fans are to attend a football match freely Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the country over its controversial male-only policy. The Islamic republic has barred female spectators from football and other stadiums for...

Lewis Hamilton may not be able to clinch a sixth world championship at the typhoon-threatened Japanese Grand Prix this weekend, but knows he can knock all but teammate Valtteri Bottas out of the title race. There are only 104 points to be won after Japan and a victory for Hamilton to follow...

China's state media accused Apple Wednesday of supporting pro-democracy protesters, warning the US tech giant would suffer consequences for its "unwise and reckless" decision, in an echo of campaigns against other Western firms. An opinion piece in the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the...

The Hong Kong Squash Open has become the latest international sports event to be called off because of the unprecedented political unrest gripping the city. The international hub has been shaken by four months of massive pro-democracy protests which have seen increasingly violent clashes...

 U.S. border agents arrested or stopped nearly one million undocumented migrants at the southern border with Mexico in the last 12 months, the most in more than a decade, a top official said Tuesday. The surge came amid President Donald Trump's tough efforts to halt illegal...

Algerian police Tuesday prevented a weekly protest by students in the capital for the first time since an anti-regime movement took to the streets in February, AFP journalists and witnesses said. They forcefully barred access to a square in central Algiers and managed to disperse the...

Madrid hopes the upcoming ruling in the case of 12 Catalan separatist leaders will enable it to open fresh dialogue with the wealthy northeastern region, a junior minister said Tuesday. Speaking just days before the Supreme Court is due to rule on the fate of those responsible for the...

Canadian-American cosmologist James Peebles and Swiss scientists Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics on Tuesday for revealing the wonder of the evolution of the universe and discovering planets orbiting distant suns. Peebles, of Princeton University in the...

Iran’s foreign minister was quoted on Tuesday as signalling his country would be willing to sit down to discuss regional issues with Saudi Arabia, but that Riyadh had to stop “killing people”. Saudi Arabia, which is locked in several proxy wars in the region with arch foe Iran, has blamed...

 An American F-16 fighter jet crashed and its pilot ejected to safety near the city of Trier in western Germany Tuesday, the German air force told AFP. The airman was "recovered with minor injuries" after crashing during a "routine training mission," the US Air Force base at nearby...

Antoine Griezmann is just as happy playing for Barcelona as he is for France despite rumours of dressing room unrest amid an underwhelming start at the Catalan giants, his club and national side team-mate Clement Lenglet said on Tuesday. "I am with him at the club and he is very happy there...

Israeli minister and former member of Knesset (Parliament) along with dozens of Jewish settlers on Tuesday forced their way into East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex accompanied by Israeli police, read a statement. "More than 230 extremist Jews stormed Al-Aqsa today accompanied by...

The United States has added dozens of Chinese entities to a trading blacklist for their alleged involvement in a crackdown on ethnic Uighurs in China’s autonomous Xinjiang province.  A filing by the Commerce Department released Monday said the 28 entities are “implicated in human...

 A Brexit deal is essentially impossible as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson that to do one Northern Ireland must stay in the European Union's customs union, a Downing Street source said Tuesday. With just 23 days to go before the United...

 French President Emmanuel Macron vowed an "unrelenting fight" against Islamist extremists on Tuesday as he paid tribute to the four Paris police staff stabbed to death last week by a radicalized colleague. "We will wage an unrelenting fight in the face of Islamist terrorism," Macron...

London police have made more than 300 arrests as climate-change protesters, labelled "uncooperative crusties" by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, continued two weeks of civil disobedience to push for more to be done to protect the environment. On Monday, the Extinction Rebellion group took...