The Arab coalition at war in Yemen said Saturday its forces intercepted drones fired by Yemeni rebels at the kingdom. The statement by the Arab coalition said the drones had been launched by the Houthi rebels from Yemen's capital of Sanaa, but did not say where the drones had been...

The United States on Saturday welcomed a provisional agreement forged by Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups to share power for three years as an “important step forward.” The U.S. State Department said in statement that special envoy for Sudan...

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Saturday that it carried out drone attacks on military sites at Abha airport in southern Saudi Arabia, the group’s Al-Masirah TV reported. There was no Saudi confirmation of the attacks. Earlier, the Houthis said they targeted warplane...

Roger Federer kept tennis statisticians on their toes Saturday as he mopped up a few more records by trampling all over Lucas Pouille's dreams in a rip-roaring 7-5 6-2 7-6(4) win to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon. The Swiss became the first player - man or woman - to notch up 350 match...

President Donald Trump said on Friday mass deportation roundups would begin “fairly soon” as U.S. migrant advocates vowed their communities would be “ready” when immigration officers come. Trump, who has made a hardline immigration stance a key issue of his presidency and 2020 re-election...

U.S. and Taliban officials decided on Saturday to put their ongoing peace talks on hold for two days to allow for a meeting between rival Afghan groups to be held in Qatar, a Taliban official said. The warring sides started a seventh round of peace talks last week, aiming to hammer out a...

Cristiano Ronaldo was interviewed by Portuguese police in early June as a witness in the investigation into the hacker behind the "Football Leaks" revelations, local media reported on Saturday. Ronaldo was heard as a "witness and victim" in "complete discretion" by the judicial police while...

Islamic State fighters claimed responsibility on Saturday for a deadly overnight attack in a mosque in central province of Ghazni in Afghanistan. At least two people were killed and 20 others sustained injuries as a bomb planted by the hardline Islamist militants inside the Mohammadiya...

Some members of Britain’s Conservative Party have been issued with more than one ballot paper to vote for the next party leader, who will also become prime minister, the BBC reported on Saturday. Ballot papers have been sent to about 160,000 Conservative Party members in the UK, asking them...

Turkey's president has met with the head of Libya's U.N.-recognized government, following heightened tensions between Turkey and forces loyal to a rival Libyan authority. In a statement by his office Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his support for Prime Minister Fayez...

An Iranian religious scholar warned Britain Saturday about a retaliation by Tehran for the capture of an Iranian supertanker by Royal Marines in Gibraltar, according to the semiofficial Fars news agency. "I am openly saying that Britain should be scared of Iran's retaliatory measures over...

At least 14 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a busy market in northern Afghanistan was hit by mortar fire, officials said Saturday. Several Taliban shells hit the market Friday morning in the Khwaja Sabz Posh district of Faryab province, according to Hanif Rezaee, an Afghan...

Like most residents of Amran, a strategic gateway to Yemen's capital Sanaa, Mohammed al-Najri thought the capture of his city by Huthi rebels five years ago would not last long. But fighting quickly spread to most areas of the country, plunging the Arab world's most impoverished nation into...

China has received a briefing from the United States on the latest meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, in a call between two senior diplomats. Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in...

Sudan’s ruling military council and a coalition of opposition and protest groups agreed provisionally on Friday to share power for three years, bringing thousands onto the streets to hail a first step toward ending decades of dictatorship. The deal, concluded in the small hours and due to...

A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake shook Southern California Friday, causing some damage to buildings, fires and some injuries, with eight times more force than a foreshock that rattled the same area a day earlier, officials said. The latest quake struck at about 8:20 p.m. local time near...

UN Security Council on Friday urged warring factions in Libya to de-escalate tensions and agree to a ceasefire, and condemned an attack on a migrant detention center near the country's capital.  This is the first statement passed by the Council since fighting erupted in April. It also...

Turkey has sacked the governor of its Central Bank and replaced him with his deputy, a presidential decree published in the official gazette said Saturday. Murat Cetinkaya, who was appointed to the role in April 2016, was replaced by Murat Uysal, the decree said, but gave no official reason...

A top aide to Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic Republic is ready to enrich uranium beyond the level set by the 2015 nuclear deal, just ahead of a deadline it set Sunday for Europe to offer new terms to the accord. A video message from Ali Akbar Velayati included him saying that...

Venezuela’s bitterly divided political factions held competing commemorations of the country’s independence day on Friday, with President Nicolas Maduro calling for dialogue and opposition leader Juan Guaido decrying alleged human rights violations by Maduro’s “dictatorship.” Speaking to a...