The Senate has failed in a bid to override a series of vetoes issued by President Donald Trump, allowing the administration to move forward with plans to sell billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Trump's decision to sell the weapons in a way that...

Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool's Community Shield clash with Manchester City on Sunday will have no bearing on their battle for the Premier League title. The two sides will renew the rivalry that saw them take the title race to a tense final day last season. City eventually claimed their...

Bangladesh is in the grip of the country's worst-ever dengue fever outbreak, officials said Monday, with hospitals overflowing and social media flooded with pleas for blood donors. Eight people have died and there have been 13,637 cases of the disease so far this year, with nearly 1,100...

Europe's top court ruled Monday that online retailers must warn web users that they send personal data to Facebook through the "like" button. According to the European Court of Justice ruling, a site that embeds the Facebook "like" icon and link on its pages also sends user data to the US...

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II met Monday to discuss efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reaffirming their support for a two-state solution, Sisi's office said. The meeting comes ahead of an expected visit to the region by US President...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday the country was not in recession and that the economy was performing increasingly well, rejecting concerns that it may have contracted for two consecutive quarters. Mexico’s national statistics agency is on Wednesday due to...

 New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is waiting for EU leaders to agree to renegotiate their Brexit deal before he meets them, his spokeswoman said Monday, as the government stepped up "no deal" planning. "He obviously wants to meet EU leaders and negotiate but not to be sat down...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi met in Cairo Monday powerful Sudanese military General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, whose forces have been accused of carrying out a brutal crackdown on protesters. In his first official visit to the Egyptian capital, the deputy chief of Sudan's military...

Lewis Hamilton was cancelling all engagements and planning to fly home and rest late Sunday night when he was handed a gift-wrapped ninth place and two precious points after a tumultuous German Grand Prix. The 30-second penalties given to Alfa Romeo?s Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi,...

The head of the UN special probe into Islamic State group crimes has called for trials like those at Nuremberg of Nazi leaders to ensure the jihadists' victims are heard and their ideology "debunked". For a year, British lawyer Karim Khan has travelled around Iraq with a team of almost 80...

Iran’s foreign policy is to confront American hegemony and protect multilateralism, Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said on Monday, adding that its reduction of commitments under a nuclear deal could be reversed if other parties upheld their side of the agreement. Iran and the United...

At least two students were shot dead at a protest in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, capital of North Kordofan state, an opposition-linked doctors’ committee said on Monday. The committee said several people had been injured but did not give details.

Six Palestinians were arrested in overnight raids carried out by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank, according to the military on Monday. A military statement said the individuals had been arrested for “suspected involvement in popular terror activities", without elaborating about the...

China’s central government on Monday reiterated its support for Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, as well as the city’s police, and called on Hong Kong people to oppose violence following another weekend of clashes between protesters and police. Hong Kong has been rocked by protests over the...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said it launched on Sunday a drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport, Houthis’ Al- Masirah TV reported citing the group’s military spokesman. There was no immediate confirmation from Saudi authorities.

 Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard published footage Monday purportedly showing the Guards warning off a British warship during their July 19 seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Tasnim news agency. "You are required not to interfere in...

Britain Monday rejected the idea that it could release a Iranian tanker in exchange for a British-flagged vessel seized by the Islamic Republic in the Gulf. Tensions have spiked between Iran and Britain since after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged tanker earlier this month. That...

Russian officials are in contact with representatives of Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido, RIA news agency reported Monday, citing Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. These contacts are only occasional and Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro's government is aware of them, RIA...

 Bangladesh's law enforcement agencies have used systematic torture on detainees to stifle dissent, an international human rights group said Monday in a report that the government dismissed as baseless. The report, titled "Cycle of Fear", was jointly produced by the Geneva-based World...

Hundreds of protesters rallied outside Australia's Parliament House Monday, saying they wanted to highlight the uncertain futures of many refugees since the government replaced permanent protection visas with temporary visas. The protesters were from Iraq, Iran, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Somalia...