Mexico expressed fresh concern to the United States Friday about delays in the movement of goods and people across their border, after becoming Washington's biggest trade partner for the first time earlier this year. The diplomatic note from the foreign ministry is the latest sign of...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposals on nuclear arms disarmament is “not serious,” a Kremlin spokesman said on Saturday. Trump has ordered his administration to prepare a push for a new arms-control agreements with Russia and China citing the cost of the 21st-century nuclear arms race,...

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people. The shootout between troops and suspected Islamist...

Thousands of anti-government protesters have been camped outside the Sudan army headquarters in Khartoum for three weeks, staying put to demand civilian rule even after Omar al-Bashir quit power on April 11. The sit-in started on April 6 and has grown in size as pressure mounts against the...

Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday it was halting plans to install Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) technology, aimed at letting cars and trucks communicate with one another to avoid collisions, on U.S. vehicles beginning in 2021. Automakers have been divided in the United States...

President Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States would not abide by a UN treaty aimed at regulating the global arms trade, calling it "misguided" and an encroachment on US sovereignty. Trump said the US Senate had never ratified the 2013 Arms Trade Treaty despite his...

The United States on Friday agreed with rivals Russia on China on a goal of withdrawing foreign forces from Afghanistan, a key component of a peace deal being negotiated by Washington. Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy negotiating with the Taliban, met with Russian and Chinese representatives...

Libya's U.N.-recognized government has budgeted up to 2 billion dinars ($1.43 billion) to cover costs of a three-week-old war for control of the capital, such as treatment for the wounded, to be funded without new borrowing, the economy minister said. Ali Abdulaziz Issawi suggested the...

At least 60 Palestinians were injured during clashes Friday along Gaza's border, including 36 shot and wounded by Israeli fire, the health ministry in the coastal enclave said. "60 people were injured by (Israeli) occupation forces" and of these 36 were shot by live fire, ministry spokesman...

The US government commission on religious freedom on Friday urged action against ally Saudi Arabia after its mass execution of 37 people, most of them Shiite Muslims. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, whose members are appointed by the president and lawmakers across...

Thousands of people demonstrated on Friday in Jordan’s western Dead Sea region against the so-called “Deal of the Century”, a backchannel U.S. Middle East peace plan, the terms of which have yet to be publicized. Organized by the Islamic Movement (affiliated with Jordan’s Muslim...

The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza. Arreaza has also served as the country's vice minister for the ministry for science, technology, and intermediate industries, executive vice president, and minister of the ecological mining development....

Yemeni authorities have rounded up about 3,000 irregular migrants, predominantly Ethiopians, in the south of the country, "creating an acute humanitarian situation," the U.N. migration agency said Friday. "IOM is deeply concerned about the conditions in which the migrants are being held and...

France's finance minister promised Friday that some 15 million households would benefit from tax cuts announced by President Emmanuel Macron, but the move did little to calm tempers among "yellow vest" protesters. In a major address on Thursday night, the French leader promised a new round...

French car maker Renault wants to create a common holding company with its Japanese partner Nissan that will own 100 percent of both auto manufacturers, the business daily Nikkei reported Friday. Renault controls 43.4 percent of Nissan's capital, with the Japanese manufacturer owning 15...

Algerian protesters vowed Friday to keep up the pressure on the regime left behind by Abdelaziz Bouteflika, staging a tenth consecutive weekly mass rally after a string of people close to the toppled president were sacked or arrested over alleged graft. "We want this system to leave and all...

At least 53 protesters have been killed in Khartoum -- and another 734 injured -- since last December, according to the Sudanese Health Ministry. “Hospitals received 40 people dead on arrival, while another 13 died while receiving treatment,” Babaker Mohamed Ali, the ministry’s...

Turkey, Russia, and on Friday condemned the U.S. decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over Syria’s occupied Golan Heights.  In a joint statement, the three guarantor countries of the Astana process for peace in Syria reaffirmed their strong commitment "to the sovereignty,...

The armed wing of Hamas is using increasingly complex methods of raising funds via bitcoin, researchers say, highlighting the difficulties regulators face in tracking cryptocurrency financing of outfits designated by some as terrorist groups. The Gaza-based Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades,...

Al-Qaeda in Yemen vowed on Friday to avenge beheadings carried out by Saudi Arabia this week – an indication that some of the 37 Saudis executed on terrorism-related charges were members of the Sunni militant group. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, as the branch is called, posted a...