The U.S. is crafting a surrender document, not a peace plan, and the Palestinians will not accept it regardless of how much money is offered, Palestine's foreign minister said Thursday. Riyad al-Maliki was addressing a meeting at the UN's New York headquarters at which the U.S.'s Middle...

Venezuela's opposition leader Friday called for a nationwide protest on Saturday over the arrest of his deputy opposition figure. Juan Guaido told a news conference in the capital Caracas: "We are fighting a regime that armed the paramilitary groups, but this will not stop us. We will hold...

After a long push in Mexico, China’s Huawei landed a coveted job in 2017: supplying equipment for the country’s so-called “red compartida,” an ambitious telecommunications network built for carriers delivering the latest generation of technology. The contract came with a catch. Altan...

Loudspeakers blared nationalist Arabic music across hillsides in northern Israel on Thursday as children ran across a field waving Palestinian flags. The scene was a rally for members of Israel’s 21 percent Arab minority. The Israeli term for them is Israeli-Arabs, but many now reject that...

Swaddled in white towels, the Mansour and Wafai families sat in an arched alcove of Aleppo's Bab al-Ahmar public bathhouse, reviving their once-weekly tradition after years of war in Syria. With steamy stone rooms, masseurs and traditional singers, the bathhouses have been a staple of...

The number of overnight stays in hotels in France slumped in the first quarter, especially in Paris, the national statistics office said Thursday, blaming the nationwide "yellow vest" protest movement for putting off foreign tourists. In the first three months of 2019, the number of...

Two civilians were killed and four captured Thursday in a southern Libyan town held by strongman Khalifa Haftar, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group, sources said. Gunmen in more than 10 vehicles launched the attack on Ghodwa early in the morning, firing "indiscriminately at...

The latest round of US-Taliban talks ended in Qatar on Thursday, an insurgent spokesman said, after "positive and constructive" negotiations that continued even as the Taliban bombed a US-funded aid group in Kabul. Suhail Shaheen, the Taliban's political spokesman in Doha, tweeted that...

A Venezuelan lawmaker who backed a failed opposition uprising against the government said Thursday that he had taken refuge in the Argentine ambassador's residence. Richard Blanco, one of 10 National Assembly lawmakers charged with treason for supporting opposition chief Juan Guaido's call...

European powers denounced Iran’s threat to resume nuclear work on Thursday but vowed to save a landmark deal with Tehran despite US pressure. Iran said it would defy some limits it had accepted under the 2015 agreement, and threatened to go further if Europe, China and Russia fail to...

Algerian lawmakers on Thursday boycotted a parliamentary session that was called to confirm six new cabinet members, according to local media reports. The MPs reportedly boycotted the session to show solidarity with ongoing popular protests calling for the dismissal of all government...

Scores of Jewish settlers on Thursday forced their way into Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound to mark Israel’s “Independence Day”, according to a Palestinian official.  “Since Thursday morning, over 130 Jewish extremists have entered the compound to mark the 71st...

North Korea fired two “short-range missiles” Thursday for the second time in less than a week, South Korean media reported. South Korean Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) said Pyongyang launched “projectiles” from the northwestern area of Kusong in an easterly direction into the East Sea,...

U.S. border officers apprehended nearly 99,000 people crossing the U.S. southern border in April, the highest figure since 2007, the government said on Wednesday, as Trump administration officials decried what they call a humanitarian and security crisis. The steady increase in migrant...

 Google said on Thursday an anti-fake news law passed by Singapore’s parliament could stunt innovation, a quality that the city-state wants to nurture under plans to expand its tech industry. Singapore’s parliament on Wednesday passed the Protection from Online Falsehoods and...

The Yemeni government has accused the United Arab Emirates of landing around 100 separatist troops on a remote island in the Arabian Sea this week, a claim the UAE denied, deepening a rift between nominal allies in Yemen’s war. The UAE is one of the Arab countries fighting formally on...

 Moscow does not plan to send more Russian military specialists to Venezuela, RIA news agency quoted Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov as saying Thursday. The Kremlin said in March that Russian military specialists are in Venezuela to service pre-existing contracts for the...

North Korea fired an unidentified projectile Thursday, South Korea's joint chiefs of staff said, less than a week after its leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-firing of multiple rockets and missiles. The projectile was fired at about 4:30 p.m. (0730 GMT) from a location in North Korea's...

Three people were killed Thursday in a suspected hit-and-run attack by Daesh (ISIS) militants on a town in southern Libya, residents and a military official said, the second such attack within days. Gunmen stormed the town of Ghadwa, opened fire before retreating back into the desert,...

European powers said Thursday that they still backed the nuclear deal with Iran, but rejected any "ultimatums" from Tehran to keep it alive. "We reject any ultimatums and we will assess Iran's compliance on the basis of Iran's performance regarding its nuclear-related commitments" under a...