The Pentagon will present a broad range of military options to President Donald Trump Friday as he considers how to respond to what administration officials say was an unprecedented Iranian attack on Saudi Arabia's oil industry. In a White House meeting, the Republican president will be...

 The Kremlin said Friday that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was due in Moscow soon for talks. Russia has been one of Maduro's biggest backers in the face of what it has described as unacceptable U.S. efforts to undermine him, providing loans and help for Venezuela's military and...

Amnesty International on Friday accused Hong Kong police of using excessive force against pro-democracy protesters, in some cases amounting to torture, allegations that were rejected by a commanding officer. In a report based on interviews with nearly two dozen activists, most of whom were...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu skillfully "played" U.S. President Donald Trump by plying him with inaccurate information, former secretary of state Rex Tillerson said. Netanyahu, who is fighting for his political life after close elections, was "a bit Machiavellian" and would...

A trade adviser to Donald Trump has said the U.S. president is ready to escalate the ongoing trade war with China if a trade deal is not agreed soon, the South China Morning Post reported Thursday. "Does the president have options to escalate the trade war? Yes, the tariffs can be raised...

A baby survivor of a horrendous Taliban suicide bombing in Afghanistan on Thursday evoked feelings of agony and disbelief in the war-ravaged country. The main public hospital in the remote southern Zabul province was devastated by the early morning truck bombing by the Taliban that claimed...

An early morning suicide truck bombing killed at least 20 people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, an official confirmed. The massive bombing hitting the main public hospital in the Zabul province also left more than 90 others injured, Atta Jan Haq, the chairman of the provincial...

More than eight years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, a Japanese court will rule Thursday on the only criminal prosecution stemming from the worst nuclear accident in decades. Three former executives from Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the firm that operated the Fukushima...

 U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had ordered his Treasury Secretary to “substantially increase sanctions” imposed on Iran, in the wake of an attack on Saudi oil facilities that some U.S. officials have blamed on Tehran. He did not give details on the move and Tehran...

A Turkish court ruled Wednesday that a US consular staffer would remain in jail while his espionage trial continued, in a case that has added to tensions with Washington. Metin Topuz, a Turkish citizen and liaison for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), was arrested in 2017....

 Gunmen and at least one suicide bomber attacked a Government building in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, wounding nine people including a child and a woman, officials said. Attackers detonated explosives outside the building, used for the distribution of electronic identity cards,...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had no more than 20 minutes to study a draft accord between the United States and the Taliban on pulling thousands of U.S. troops out of his country, but upcoming elections could put him back at the heart of talks to end decades of war. What he read in the...

Japan has not seen any intelligence that shows Iran was involved in the recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, Japan’s new defense chief said on Wednesday. “We are not aware of any information that points to Iran,” Defense Minister Taro Kono told reporters at a briefing. “We...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday the world was "losing the race" to avert climate disaster, but that greenhouse gas reduction targets were not out of reach yet. He was speaking during an interview with the Covering Climate Now coalition of media, which includes AFP, days...

Mexican forensics experts have found at least 29 bodies stuffed in 119 plastic bags that were dumped in the bottom of a well outside the western city of Guadalajara, officials said Tuesday. Experts have been working to establish how many victims are in the mass grave since it was discovered...

Mexico’s government will uphold its pledge to keep fuel prices stable and has gasoline supplies secured despite attacks on Saudi oil sites, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday. Lopez Obrador told a regular news conference that officials from the finance ministry and state...

Three Russian border guards were wounded in a confrontation with North Korean poachers, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday. The incident happened in the Sea of Japan, in Russian territorial waters, the FSB Public Relations Center said in a statement on its official...

The Venezuelan government and five opposition party leaders announced they agreed on starting a new dialogue process to tackle problems in the nation. Main opposition leader Juan Guaido was not part of the new deal announced Monday and he said the Norway-mediated negotiations are...

An explosion near an election rally attended by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani killed 24 people and injured 31 others, a health official said, but Ghani was unhurt according to an aide. Ghani had been due to address the rally in Charikar, capital of Parwan province, north of Kabul, when the...

Hong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, said on Tuesday she and her team would begin dialogue sessions with the community next week, while reiterating that violence that has roiled the city over three months of protests must end. Lam, who is under pressure from Beijing to defuse the public anger...