The Israeli army shelled two observation posts near a fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel, witnesses said late Friday. Israel bombed two observation posts belonging to Palestinian resistance group Hamas in the northern city of Beit Lahia and Gaza City’s eastern Shajaiyya district....

A piece of legislation intended to prevent the U.K. from crashing out of the EU without an agreement is set to become law after passing through the House of Lords without any amendments.  The Benn bill completed its legislative scrutiny after passing through parliament’s upper house...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered words of encouragement Saturday hours after India’s failed attempt to land a craft on the moon. “There will be a new dawn and a brighter tomorrow very soon,” he said. “We don’t have to look back, we need to take lessons and move ahead till the objective...

The 44th Toronto International Film Festival kicked off Thursday with a documentary celebration of Canada’s The Band and the premiere of Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of “David Copperfield.” The start of North America’s largest film festival heralds the beginning of the fall movie season and...

 Britain's upper House of Lords gave final approval Friday to a law aimed at preventing a no-deal Brexit in a major defeat for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government. The law, which would require Johnson to seek a three-month delay to Brexit if he does not manage to strike a...

Russian state watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Friday it asked Facebook and Google to ban the publication of political advertising during elections on Sunday and on the preceding day, in line with Russian law. Russia will hold several regional elections on Sunday, including in Moscow....

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday that it appeared Iran was inching toward a place where talks could be held, days after U.S. President Donald Trump left the door open to a possible meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly in New York....

Unidentified attackers killed two aid workers who were returning from a refugee camp in a western Ethiopia region that shares a border with South Sudan, their aid group and a U.N. organization said. The attack happened Thursday in Gambella region, which shares a porous frontier with...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong "must be guaranteed" after meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Beijing, her spokesperson said. In a tweet, spokesperson Steffen Seibert quoted Merkel as saying: "The rights and...

The Taliban attacked a third provincial capital in Afghanistan in less than a week, killing at least two civilians, an official said Friday as a U.S. envoy was back in Qatar for unexpected talks on a U.S.-Taliban deal he had described as complete just days earlier. Farah provincial...

Pakistan's army chief has accused India of being responsible for "state terrorism" in the Indian-controlled sector of the divided Kashmir. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa also said the Pakistani military is ready for "every sacrifice" and "will never abandon" the people of Kashmir. He...

A clash of generations will decide the U.S. Open on Saturday with Serena Williams taking a fourth crack at Grand Slam history against teenager Bianca Andreescu, who was not even born when the American lifted her first Flushing Meadows trophy. One short of equalling Margaret Court's...

Recently, Israel has been expanding its military attacks across much of the Middle East, hitting multiple countries. The aggressive campaign far outpaces anything any adversaries of Israel have been doing to it, or even trying unsuccessfully to do to it. Over the past two years, Israel has...

South Africa promised on Thursday to tackle the prejudice fuelling a wave of deadly riots and xenophobic attacks, as international anger over the violence overshadowed a pan-African economic conference in Cape Town. President Cyril Ramaphosa said at least ten people had been killed during...

Seven of the 23 crew members of the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero that was seized by Iran in July reached Dubai on Thursday after Tehran agreed to their release, a Russian official said. The Swedish-owned Stena Impero was detained by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on July 19 in the...

 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi highlighted in a phone call the importance of achieving oil market stability through join cooperation, state news agency SPA reported on Thursday. “During the call they discussed areas of mutual...

The blockaded Gaza Strip has marked the highest tragic humanitarian figures in the world, a humanitarian aid NGO said Thursday.  The Istanbul-based Gaza Aid Association held a conference dedicated to the Gaza Strip, and released its annual report on the humanitarian situation in the...

France's foreign ministry on Thursday called on Iran to refrain from any concrete action that does not comply with its 2015 nuclear deal obligations after Tehran said it would develop centrifuges for faster uranium enrichment. "Iran must refrain from any concrete action that is not in line...

Thousands of Yemenis marched in Aden on Thursday in support of the United Arab Emirates, which assists separatists who seized the southern city from the Saudi-backed government in a power struggle that has opened a new front in Yemen’s war. The rally took place as Saudi Arabia, leader of an...

Sudan's Sovereign Council on Thursday approved Cabinet outline of the transitional government, the first since former president Omar al-Bashir was deposed in April, an official said. A member of the council told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity that "the council adopted the outline...