U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday said he canceled peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders after the insurgent group claimed responsibility last week for an attack in Kabul that killed an American soldier and 11 other people. Trump said he had planned a secret meeting with the...

Thousands of Hong Kong protesters on Sunday chanted the U.S. national anthem and called on U.S. President Donald Trump to liberate the Chinese-ruled city, the latest in a series of demonstrations that have gripped the city for months. Police stood by as protesters, under a sea of umbrellas,...

 Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari will visit South Africa next month to reinforce the bonds between the two countries after a wave of deadly riots and xenophobic attacks, the South African presidency said on Saturday. South Africa’s MTN Group and supermarket chain Shoprite have...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel Saturday hailed a swap of 70 prisoners between Russia and Ukraine as a "sign of hope" and called for the implementation of a 2015 ceasefire deal that Paris and Berlin helped broker. "This exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine is a sign of hope ......

Turkey asked the United States to lift trade barriers between the two countries during talks Saturday aimed at sharply increasing bilateral commerce, Turkey's trade minister said. Washington and Ankara have set an ambitious goal of quadrupling their trade to $100 billion a year, despite the...

Pakistan Saturday said it had denied India's President Ram Nath Kovind permission to fly through its airspace – access to which is usually granted – due to New Delhi's recent "behavior." The decision comes at a time of high tension between the two nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors over...

Several hundred demonstrators took over the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, demanding action to fight climate change and a ban on cruise ships entering the lagoon city. Wearing white boiler suits over their clothes, the roughly 300 protesters sat on the red carpet where...

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Saturday that while it was seeking a political agreement with the Taliban, Washington would not accept just any deal after a wave of violence cast a shadow over its talks with the insurgent group. Afghan leaders including President Ashraf Ghani have...

 Hong Kong police checked people traveling to the airport for passports and air tickets on Saturday, preventing protesters gathering for another “stress test” of road and rail links in the Chinese-ruled city. The increased scrutiny was aimed at avoiding the chaos of last weekend, when...

Hundreds of people stranded on hurricane-ravaged Great Abaco in the Bahamas waited Friday for a way off the islands as the death toll rose to 43 and rescue and recovery crews arrived with body bags and coolers. The number of fatalities is expected to rise as the extent of the damage becomes...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered words of encouragement Saturday hours after India’s failed attempt to land a craft on the moon. “There will be a new dawn and a brighter tomorrow very soon,” he said. “We don’t have to look back, we need to take lessons and move ahead till the objective...

Russian state watchdog Roskomnadzor said on Friday it asked Facebook and Google to ban the publication of political advertising during elections on Sunday and on the preceding day, in line with Russian law. Russia will hold several regional elections on Sunday, including in Moscow....

Unidentified attackers killed two aid workers who were returning from a refugee camp in a western Ethiopia region that shares a border with South Sudan, their aid group and a U.N. organization said. The attack happened Thursday in Gambella region, which shares a porous frontier with...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday the rights and freedoms of people in Hong Kong "must be guaranteed" after meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Beijing, her spokesperson said. In a tweet, spokesperson Steffen Seibert quoted Merkel as saying: "The rights and...

The Taliban attacked a third provincial capital in Afghanistan in less than a week, killing at least two civilians, an official said Friday as a U.S. envoy was back in Qatar for unexpected talks on a U.S.-Taliban deal he had described as complete just days earlier. Farah provincial...

Pakistan's army chief has accused India of being responsible for "state terrorism" in the Indian-controlled sector of the divided Kashmir. Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa also said the Pakistani military is ready for "every sacrifice" and "will never abandon" the people of Kashmir. He...

South Africa promised on Thursday to tackle the prejudice fuelling a wave of deadly riots and xenophobic attacks, as international anger over the violence overshadowed a pan-African economic conference in Cape Town. President Cyril Ramaphosa said at least ten people had been killed during...

Israeli forces have detained seven Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Israeli military. A Thursday statement said the individuals were arrested for “suspected involvement in hostile popular activities", without elaborating...

There are man-induced and natural fires in the Amazon rainforest but ongoing fires cannot be explained as natural, according to one of the senior officials of a non-profit environmental group. "Some 7,500 square kilometers (1.9 million acres) of forest were felled in 2018, and with the...

One person died and at least 34 were injured on Thursday when a truck and an express train with 500 people aboard collided in Japan’s second-largest city of Yokohama, setting the truck on fire and derailing half the train. The accident, which halted services on a busy rail link to the...