The death toll from the sinking of two boats carrying migrants to Yemen from Djibouti rose to 52 on Thursday, the UN migration agency said, appealing to regional leaders to take action to stop such tragedies. Rescuers working in Djibouti's northeastern Obock region continued to recover...

A team of former U.S. government intelligence operatives working for the United Arab Emirates hacked into the iPhones of activists, diplomats and rival foreign leaders with the help of a sophisticated spying tool called Karma, in a campaign that shows how potent cyberweapons are proliferating...

A U.S.-born anchor for Iran’s state-run Press TV arrived in Iran Wednesday after 10 days of detention in the United States, Press TV reported. The anchor, Marzieh Hashemi, testified as a material witness in an undisclosed federal investigation, a U.S. federal court order said last Thursday...

The family of a Navy cryptologist who was killed in Syria earlier this year in a suicide bombing is fighting an obscure regulation they say derailed her education plans and ultimately led to her fifth combat deployment in the war-torn country. Chief Petty Officer Shannon Mary Kent, 35,...

Malaysia on Thursday installed a new king, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, after the last monarch abdicated in a historic first following his reported marriage to a Russian ex-beauty queen. In a ceremony steeped in pomp and centuries of tradition, the sports-loving sultan, dressed in...

The Kabul government is steadily losing its grip over parts of Afghanistan even as American forces intensify their air campaign against insurgent groups, a US government watchdog said Thursday. The latest grim assessment of Afghanistan's security situation comes as the US pursues talks with...

enezuelan authorities have detained five foreign journalists covering the standoff with opposition forces seeking the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro. Two others, from Chile, were deported as the crisis spilled over to hit journalists covering the oil-rich but economically crippled...

Nearly 5,000 people leave Venezuela every day, the UN Refugee Agency said Wednesday. Joung-ah Ghedini-Williams, a spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said at a press conference at UN headquarters that Venezuelans are leaving the country because of "instability...

A U.S. intelligence report has claimed challenges facing South Asia will grow in 2019 because of elections in India and Afghanistan and Pakistan’s “non-cooperation” in dealing with militant groups. World Threat Assessment report by the U.S. Directorate of National Intelligence noted...

The governor of the Irish central bank, Philip Lane, is the only candidate to take over the highly influential role of chief economist of the ECB, a Eurogroup statement said Wednesday. Barring a major upset, Lane, who holds a PhD in economics, will take over from Belgian Peter Praet on May...

The U.S. issued a stern ultimatum to the international business community Wednesday, warning against commodity-based trade with the Venezuelan government, just two days after Washington blacklisted Venezuela's state-owned oil company. "My advice to bankers, brokers, traders, facilitators,...

Russia is ready to participate in international efforts regarding the settlement of the Venezuelan crisis, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday. However, all initiatives for mediation must be impartial, Sergey Lavrov told a news conference following a meeting with his Iraqi...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has alleged that the U.S. and Colombian presidents have hatched a plot to murder him. In a no-holds-barred interview to Russian news agency RIA Novosti, Maduro said: "Without a doubt, Donald Trump has given the order to kill me and has told the Colombian...

With competing claims of authority rocking the country, Greece does not want Venezuela to become a weak, divided state, said a top Greek diplomat on Wednesday. "We do not want Venezuela to become yet another Libya in South America," Giorgos Katrougalos, the alternate minister of foreign...

The crisis in Venezuela has triggered fresh tensions between Washington and Moscow, with chilly exchanges at the United Nations, but analysts warn against the temptation of seeing the return of Cold War-style divisions. Since Venezuelan parliament leader Juan Guaido declared himself...

United States sanctions aimed at pressuring Nicolas Maduro to capitulate in his power struggle with self-proclaimed acting-president Juan Guaido have Venezuelans fearing they may be left facing fuel shortages. Whether they support the US sanctions or not, Venezuelans interviewed by AFP...

Kabul has blamed Pakistan for forwarding its agenda through the Taliban in the proposed peace talks as Washington rushes to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. Details emerging from the Pakistan-sponsored round of talks in Qatar, Doha between U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban have...

Pyongyang has sought relief from UN sanctions to “boost trust” ahead of a scheduled second summit between U.S. president Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Trump and Kim broke the years long impasse last year after holding a historic summit in Singapore with an aim to...

Venezuela’s Supreme Court on Tuesday barred opposition leader and self-declared president Juan Guaido from leaving the country and ordered a freeze on his financial assets. Chief Justice Maikel Moreno said in a post on his Twitter account that the court was initiating a preliminary...

Venezuela’s chief prosecutor asked the country’s top court Tuesday to launch an investigation against opposition leader Juan Guaido following recent violent clashes. Speaking to reporters, Attorney General Tarek Saab said he requested the Supreme Court to introduce preventive measures...