New Zealand honored the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks in a commemoration ceremony on Friday. Around 25,000 New Zealanders attended the memorial service for the 50 slain Muslim worshippers, including four children, who were killed in the twin attacks on the Al Noor and...

The Israeli army has deployed reinforcements along fraught Gaza-Israel buffer zone in advance of anticipated Palestinian rallies on Saturday marking the first anniversary of Gaza’s “Great Return” march. Saturday’s planned demonstration will also mark Palestinian Land Day, which...

Thousands of protesters gathered in central Algiers Friday, piling pressure on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign days after the country's powerful military called for his removal. The army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Gaed Salah, on Tuesday asked the constitutional council to...

Britain would secure a new Brexit date of May 22 if its Parliament approves the EU divorce deal on Friday, the bloc's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said Friday. "Important vote today in House of Commons. As a reminder, approval of Withdrawal Agreement by 29 March will secure extension...

A prominent Egyptian activist has been released from prison after serving a five-year sentence for organising an illegal protest, his family says. Alaa Abdel Fattah rose to prominence during the 2011 uprising against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. He was arrested in...

The dolphins’ bodies were horribly mutilated, the fins cut off. But what shocked French marine researchers wasn’t just the brutality of the deaths of these highly intelligent mammals, but the numbers involved   a record 1,100 have landed on France’s Atlantic coast beaches since...

Investigators probing the fatal crash of a Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia have reached a preliminary conclusion that a suspect anti-stall system activated shortly before it nose-dived to the ground, the WSJ reported Friday citing people familiar with the matter. The findings were based on...

The U.N. envoy to Yemen said Thursday the redeployment of rival factions in the key port city of Hodeida is "slow" but will happen. A cease-fire agreed on in December in Sweden by the rival parties is holding, Martin Griffiths told The Associated Press. The city has been the focus of months...

Venezuela's auditor general's office announced Thursday it has stripped opposition leader and speaker of congress Juan Guaido of the right to hold public office for 15 years. The move, announced by Auditor General Elvis Amoroso on state television, marked another effort by President Nicolas...

Sudanese police fired tear gas at protesters defying a nationwide state of emergency on Thursday, with demonstrations in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere, witnesses said. Protests and deadly clashes have rocked Sudan for more than three months, fuelled by accusations that the government...

Jens Stoltenberg will receive two new years as NATO Secretary General until 2022, the bloc announced on Thursday.   “NATO Allies agreed today to extend the mandate of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg by a further two years, until 30 September 2022”, NATO announced its website....

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of central Algiers again on Thursday to demand the resignation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and changes to the political system after the powerful army called for the veteran leader to be removed. The army chief of staff, Lieutenant General...

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Israel is prepared to wage a broad military campaign in Gaza but only as a last resort, after a two-day flareup of cross-border fighting less than two weeks before an Israeli election. “All Israelis should know that if a...

Saudi Arabia’s secretive hearings for 11 suspects accused in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi fall short of international standards and should be open to the public and trial observers, a U.N. human rights expert said on Thursday. Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on...

President Donald Trump on Thursday again threatened to seal the US-Mexican border, claiming in a tweet that America's southern neighbor is allowing illegal immigrants to cross unhindered. "May close the Southern Border!" the president wrote. "Mexico is doing NOTHING to help stop the...

Around 40 children have been killed and many injured in one year of demonstrations along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, the UN said Thursday, calling for an "urgent de-escalation". Thousands of Palestinians have gathered at least weekly along the border in protests that have...

Bayern Munich's new record signing Lucas Hernandez may not be fit to start training when he officially joins the club on July 1, coach Niko Kovac has said. French international Hernandez will become the most expensive Bundesliga player in history when he makes the 80 million euro switch...

Egyptian mediators are heading to Israel to discuss a potential cease-fire plan with Hamas to end hostilities in the Gaza Strip that began earlier this week. Three Hamas officials familiar with the negotiations said Thursday that the Egyptians offered Hamas a series of measures to ease the...

Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Wednesday called on supporters to take to the streets this weekend to protest a nationwide power outage, while President Nicolas Maduro announced a “load management” plan for the coming days. Residents scrambled to find food and water as...

Algeria’s constitutional council has not held any meeting so far to decide whether President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is fit for office, state radio said on Thursday. Bouteflika is under huge pressure to resign after the army called for his removal and allies deserted him. Protesters seeking to...