U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to meet personally with the protesters in Hong Kong, saying it would lead to an end to tensions that have seized the territory for weeks. "If President Xi would meet directly and personally with the protesters, there...

Walmart reported improved results Thursday on solid US sales and e-commerce growth and again defended its decision to keep selling some guns after a mass shooting at a Texas store. Net income was $3.6 billion, up from an $861 million loss in the year-ago period, when one-time costs related...

Venezuela’s president accused Colombia’s former leader of an attempt to assassinate him, local media reported.  A Colombian envoy and a Venezuelan justice were allegedly involved in the assassination plan, according to the Caracas-based teleSur TV network. "I have learned of a plan...

The autopsy report of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier who died in an apparent suicide in his jail cell, found that he had several broken bones in his neck, the Washington Post reported late Wednesday. The injuries can occur to people who hang themselves or who are strangled, the...

Donald Trump on Wednesday urged China to "humanely" resolve the violent stand-off with pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong, as concerns grow that Beijing is considering direct intervention in the crisis. In a series of tweets, the US president linked a possible trade deal with Beijing to...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi hailed on Thursday his "path-breaking" move to strip the restive region of Kashmir of its autonomy, in a tub-thumping speech marking Indian Independence Day. Parts of Kashmir that India controls -- it is split with arch-rival Pakistan -- have been under lockdown...

On Monday, CNN reporter Clarissa Ward explained the shadowy operations of the Wagner Group, a paramilitary organization that experts believe is under the control of the Kremlin — and which is used to exert Russia’s might and disrupt politics around the world. “I think everybody knows by...

The last major nuclear arms control treaty between Russia and the United States is outdated and flawed, the U.S. ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday, saying it could be scrapped altogether when it expires in 2021 and replaced with something else. The New START treaty limits the number of...

 French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called on Hong Kong authorities on Wednesday to renew talks with protesters to find a peaceful solution to the current crisis. Widespread demonstrations against a bill that would allow criminal suspects in the former British colony to be...

The UN on Wednesday expressed grave concerns over the killing of 11 civilians in Afghanistan allegedly by pro-government forces during the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday. According to local elders, the National Directorate of Security forces conducted a night raid in the Zurmat district of the...

Prime Minister Imran Khan warned India Wednesday that Pakistan was prepared to respond to any aggression in the disputed region of Kashmir, vowing the time had come to teach Delhi a lesson. Khan's remarks come as tensions skyrocketed between the nuclear-armed rivals following India's...

A government military base in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia was struck by car bombs and gunfire Wednesday, residents said, and the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group claimed responsibility for the attack. The mid-morning attack occurred in Awdhigle, an agricultural district along the...

Thousands marched in Muzaffarabad -- the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir -- on Monday to protest against India's withdrawal of special rights to the Indian administered part of Jammu and Kashmir through a presidential decree last week. The rally coincided with the Muslim festival...

Flights resumed at Hong Kong's airport Wednesday morning after two days of disruptions marked by outbursts of violence that highlight the hardening positions of pro-democracy protesters and the authorities in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. About three dozen protesters remained camped in...

South Sudan announced that it would scale up its monitoring of the Ebola virus after an outbreak of the hemorrhagic fever was reported in recent months in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).   A simulation exercise slated for Aug. 16 is to be carried out in the...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the situation in Hong Kong was tricky, but he hoped it would work out for everybody, including China, and “for liberty” without anyone getting hurt or killed. “The Hong Kong thing is a very tough situation - very tough,” Trump told reporters...

Scientists are a step closer to being able to cure the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two experimental drugs showed survival rates of as much as 90% in a clinical trial in Congo. Two experimental drugs - an antibody cocktail called REGN-EB3 developed by Regeneron and a monoclonal...

Indian authorities need more time to restore order in Kashmir, a Supreme Court justice said on Tuesday as a security clampdown entered a ninth day since New Delhi revoked the region’s special status, triggering protests. The court is hearing an activist’s petition seeking to lift curbs on...

The Afghan government led by President Ashraf Ghani and U.S. military officials have denied reports that U.S. personnel have been ordered to limit nearly all offensive combat operations against the Taliban.  Talking to Anadolu Agency, Presidency Spokesman Sediq Seddiqi, said there was...

The U.N. rights chief Tuesday voiced concern over force used against protesters during massive demonstrations in Hong Kong and called for an impartial probe amid increasingly violent unrest in the key financial hub. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is "concerned by...