The US Congress is poised to approve tough new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea this week after reaching a compromise deal, which the White House indicated Sunday it could support. In mid-June, the Senate overwhelmingly passed tough sanctions on Moscow and Tehran, but the text...

Pope Francis has appealed for moderation after recent killings at a Jerusalem holy site. Francis told faithful Sunday in St. Peter's Square that he was following "with trepidation the grave tensions and violence" unleashed at a contested shrine. Last week Arab gunmen, shooting from the...

Eight people were found dead in a tractor-trailer outside a Walmart store in the stifling summer heat in what police called a horrific human trafficking case, and the driver was arrested. Several other people, possibly dozens, were found in the truck, which didn’t have a working air...

Hundreds of British Palestinians staged a protest in front of Israel’s London embassy against the latest restrictions around the Muslims’ third holiest site in Jerusalem on Saturday. The emergency protest called for by the Palestinian Forum in Britain saw protesters from all ages, and...