At least five children were burned to death when a blaze broke out in an orphanage in southern Pakistan late Thursday evening, officials confirmed. The incident occurred in Mirpurkhas district, some 200 kilometers (124 miles) from the country's commercial capital, Karachi. Mohammad...

Oil prices jumped more than 1 percent on Thursday, with Brent nearing $50 a barrel on optimism over OPEC's first planned output cut in eight years, although gains were limited as some analysts doubted the reduction would be enough to make a substantial dent in the global crude glut. The...

The United States is close to suspending talks with Russia on a ceasefire in Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, as the Kremlin vowed to press on with an assault on the city of Aleppo. Moscow and Damascus launched a campaign to recapture the rebel-held sector of...

The Sudanese government has since January repeatedly used chemical weapons against civilians in a remote region of Darfur, Amnesty International said in its latest report Thursday. The attacks reportedly came amid a large-scale military offensive launched in January 2016 by Sudanese forces...