Additional sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States show that Washington’s offer of talks is not genuine, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Saturday. The United States placed sanctions on Iran’s largest petrochemical holding group on Friday for indirectly...

Egyptian security forces killed four suspected jihadists in restive North Sinai allegedly involved in a deadly attack this week on a police checkpoint, the interior ministry said Saturday. It said the suspects were killed in a shootout as security forces raided a building used as a hideout...

France is ready to consider paring back its 15-percent stake in Renault in the interests of consolidating the automaker's alliance with Japanese partner Nissan, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Saturday. In an interview with AFP on the sidelines of the G20 finance ministers' meeting in...

Sudanese security forces have arrested two prominent rebels and an opposition leader, a day after they met the Ethiopian premier during his reconciliation mission to Khartoum, their aides said Saturday. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has emerged as a key regional leader, met representatives...

 Iran said Saturday that new U.S. sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the hollowness of President Donald Trump's claims to be open to fresh negotiations with Tehran. "Only one week was needed for the U.S. president's claim that he was ready to negotiate with Iran to be proved...

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro on Friday ordered the reopening of the country’s border with Colombia in western Tachira state, near where international aid refused by Caracas has amassed. The economically-devastated South American nation is suffering from shortages of food, medicine...

The African Union’s suspension of Sudan over a paramilitary massacre of civilians this week has been welcomed by the international community. But can the bloc succeed in delivering African solutions to African problems? Days after the UN Security Council failed to agree on a statement...

President Donald Trump says he has suspended plans to impose tariffs on Mexico, tweeting that the country "has agreed to take strong measures" to stem the flow of Central American migrants into the United States. "I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a...

Facebook said Friday it would stop allowing pre-installation of its social networking apps on Huawei devices to comply with US sanctions against the Chinese technology giant. The social media giant said it took the step after US President Donald Trump's order barring Huawei from US...

An explosion thought to have been a bomb rocked a residential street in the town of Linkoping in southern Sweden Friday, damaging several buildings and slightly injuring about 20 people, police officials said. A police bomb squad was investigating the scene of the huge blast, which...

 New U.S. sanctions imposed Friday target Iran's petrochemical industry, including the country's largest petrochemical holding group over its financial support for Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Treasury Department said in a statement. The Treasury Department said the...

 NASA said Friday it will open up the International Space Station for tourism and other business ventures as of next year, as it seeks to financially disengage from the orbiting research lab. NASA made the announcement at a news conference, and said costs and arrangements for flying...

The United Arab Emirates is concerned about the "massacre" seen in Sudan and supports calls for an investigation, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said Friday. Sudan's new military leaders have been under pressure after the worst violence since Omar al-Bashir's fall in...

Defending champion Rafael Nadal powered past Roger Federer in the French Open semi-finals on Friday, to move within one victory of a record-extending 12th Roland Garros title after handing his oldest rival his worst Grand Slam defeat in 11 years. The 33-year-old produced a masterful...

Four million Venezuelan refugees and migrants have fled an economic and political crisis in their homeland, all but 700,000 of them since the end of 2015, U.N. aid agencies said on Friday. The “alarming” figure highlights the urgent need to support host countries, mainly in Latin America -...

Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the United States on Friday that what he described as unbridled economic egoism was a recipe for trade and maybe even real wars. Putin, speaking at an economic forum in St Petersburg on the same platform as Chinese leader Xi Jinping, complained about...

With banners reading “You all go” and “We need new figures”, thousands of protesters gathered in the Algerian capital on Friday for what has become a regular demonstration demanding the removal of the ruling elite. After 20 years in power, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika quit on April 2...

Judges at London’s High Court have thrown out an attempt to prosecute Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to succeed Theresa May as prime minister, for lying about Brexit during the 2016 EU referendum campaign. The case revolved around a claim famously emblazoned on Johnson's "Leave" campaign...

President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that France would move to ratify a wide-ranging trade deal between the EU and Canada despite criticism the pact gives excessive power to businesses while exposing many smaller firms to unfair competition. "The outcome from CETA has been positive,"...

The German government Friday slammed online hate commentaries cheering the unsolved murder of a local politician, who was vocally pro-migrant. "If someone is so hated, just because he had liberal views, that is the decline of human morality," Germany's interior minister, Horst Seehofer,...