Real Madrid will face defending champions Barcelona in the semi-finals of the Copa del Rey. The draw made on Friday means there will be back-to-back Clasicos, with the second leg due to take place in the last week of February, before Madrid host Barca in La Liga on March 2. The first...

US President Donald Trump is serious about getting out of Afghanistan, the Taliban told AFP Friday, outlining the "Islamic system" comprising "all Afghans" that the group says it hopes to establish under any peace deal. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid spoke to AFP via WhatsApp a day...

The United States on Friday announced it was withdrawing from the INF nuclear missile treaty with Russia, saying Moscow was in violation of agreement which has been a centrepiece of arms control since the Cold War. In a statement, President Donald Trump said that effective Saturday, "the...

France’s top legal advisory body, the Council of State, has refused to ban police from using controversial rubber-ball launchers that have been blamed for a spate of serious injuries suffered by Yellow Vest protesters. Friday's highly anticipated ruling by the Conseil d'État follows an...

Boeing Co is counting on a new kind of worker to help it reach a long-coveted target of rolling out 14 787 Dreamliners from its factories each month: half human, half robot. The world’s largest planemaker is equipping mechanics with exoskeletons, similar to ones that allow cameramen to...

The U.K. said on Friday it is “completely unacceptable” to refer Gibraltar as a “colony,” hitting back at EU language describing the British oversees territory as a “colony of the British Crown.” The British reaction came after a footnote to new EU legislation guaranteeing visa-free travel...

Israeli Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit will decide whether to indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for graft before Knesset elections slated for April 9, Mandelblit announced Friday. In a statement, Mandelblit said his team of prosecutors was currently working on the three...

Sudanese police fired tear gas on Friday at hundreds of protesters in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, witnesses said, in the latest of more than a month of anti-government demonstrations. Demonstrators frustrated with a worsening economic crisis have been on the streets...

For the 45th week in a row, Palestinians on Friday converged along the Gaza-Israel buffer zone to take part in ongoing rallies against Israel’s decades-long occupation. In a statement, Gaza’s National Authority for Breaking the Siege urged the people of Gaza to take part in Friday’s...

The U.S. announced Friday it will suspend its participation in a ballistic missile treaty Feb. 2 over alleged Russian violations of the pact. In announcing the departure, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Russia of consistently violating the terms of the landmark 1987...

Any foreign intervention in Venezuela is "not right" and will deepen the problem, Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Friday. "We are telling since the beginning. Such foreign interventions are not healthy and not right. They will not offer a solution. They will deepen the...

EU diplomats have agreed that after Brexit, British citizens should be granted visa-free travel, the European Council said on Friday. "According to EU rules, visa exemption is granted on condition of reciprocity. The government of the United Kingdom has stated that it does not intend to...

Sailing in the “same boat”, Turkey and EU back a political solution to the Syria crisis, EU ambassador in the capital Ankara said. Speaking to Anadolu Agency Thursday, Christian Berger said Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu will make great contribution to the Brussel conference on...

The Daesh terrorist group is seeking to exploit differences between Baghdad and northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said Friday. Speaking to reporters in Erbil, the KRG’s administrative capital, Barzani stressed the “positive atmosphere”...

Benny Gantz, a former Israeli army chief and founder of the Israel Resilience Party, is facing a civil suit at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in relation to the death of six Gazan civilians in 2014, Israeli daily Haaretz reported Friday. According to the newspaper, the plaintiff is...

At least 197 civilians were killed in war-ravaged Syria in January, according to a monthly report released Friday by a London-based rights watchdog. In its report, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that 57 children and 27 women had been among those killed during the first...

Thousands of Iranians packed the mausoleum of the Islamic republic's founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran on Friday to launch celebrations for the 40th anniversary of its revolution. Ceremonies for the 1979 revolution started at 9:33 am (0603 GMT), the exact time that Khomeini...

President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone made multiple media appearances in Washington on Thursday, talking freely with reporters before he was set to appear in court on Friday and likely face a gag order from a judge. Charged by Special Counsel Robert Mueller with...

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has ceased all assistance to Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, a U.S. official said on Friday. The decision was linked to a Jan. 31 deadline set by new U.S. legislation under which foreign aid recipients would be more...

Investors piled into bonds in the past week and pulled billions of dollars from U.S. and European stocks as they sought safety in assets seen as less risky in times of economic uncertainty, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML) said on Friday. The bank’s report, based on EPFR data which...