Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor held a second round of talks with Turkish officials Tuesday and visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed four weeks ago. Khashoggi's killing has escalated into a crisis for the world's top oil exporter, which...

Pakistan released two key Afghan Taliban leaders last week reportedly at Washington’s request in an apparent attempt to revive a stalled peace process. The development follows a meeting earlier this month between U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Pakistani and...

The U.S. military is planning to deploy 5,000 troops to the southwestern border as a migrant caravan makes its way north, according to multiple reports published Monday. The figure would be larger than the amount of U.S. troops in Syria and would be more than half the number of troops...

Istanbul Airport, the “world's new hub,” officially opened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Turkish Republic. Speaking at the massive new airport’s inauguration ceremony, President Erdogan said it would be a model to the...

On April 22, 1915, a greenish fog drifted over the battlefield north of Ypres in Belgium, choking to death some 5,000 French soldiers and heralding a new type of terror on the Western Front. World War I saw the first widespread combat use of modern chemical weapons, starting with the 168 tons...

Japan’s Princess Ayako married a commoner in a ritual-filled ceremony Monday at Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine. Ayako and groom Kei Moriya were shown on national news walking slowly before guests at the shrine. The wedding took place in one of the pagoda-like buildings in the shrine complex and included...

Turkey called on Saudi Arabia to reveal the “whole truth” about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, as the whereabouts of the journalist’s body dominated a visit to the country by Riyadh’s top prosecutor Monday. Khashoggi’s death inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate has brought near...

The total number of U.S. troops heading to the border with Mexico to help stop a caravan of migrants could be in the thousands but there is no firm figure yet, a U.S. official told Reuters Monday, offering a much higher estimate than the 800 to 1,000 initially forecast. The Pentagon...

Seven people were shot and wounded early Monday during a Halloween party at a Southern California nightclub, police said. The shooting was reported at a nightclub called Sevilla in the city of Riverside, a police statement said. The nightclub had promoted a weekend of Halloween-themed...

German authorities say they've charged a 33-year-old German man with spying on a mosque for Jordan. Federal prosecutors said Monday that Alexander B., whose last name wasn't given in line with German privacy rules, is accused of working with Jordanian intelligence services between March...

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to discuss U.S. plans to exit the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) arms treaty with Donald Trump when the two meet in Paris on Nov. 11, the Kremlin said Monday. Trump and Putin plan to hold a bilateral meeting in Paris on the sidelines of...

Saudi Arabia’s attorney general on Monday arrived at the courthouse in Istanbul over killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Saud al-Mujeb, Saudi’s top prosecutor, came to Istanbul in early hours of Monday to meet Istanbul’s Chief Public Prosecutor Irfan Fidan. Khashoggi, a Saudi...

An Indonesian air liner has crashed into the sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta with 189 people on board. Fears for passengers and crew aboard the Lion Air Boeing 737 jet were growing as search-and-rescue workers attempted to sift through wreckage in waters up to 35m deep....

Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was about to disclose some detailed information about Saudi Arabia’s use of chemical weapons in Yemen and the U.K. had been made aware of a planned plot against him weeks before he was killed in the Saudi Consulate building in Istanbul, a British tabloid claimed...

Some states hinder our work in raising awareness about the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, head of a rights groups said Sunday. In a special interview to Anadolu Agency, Kyaw Win, director of Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN), said: “Some countries in the UN Security Council seem to...

Georgians on Sunday are holding the last popular election for the nation’s president, with lawmakers set to choose the leader from now on, heralding a shift from a presidential to a parliamentary system of government in 2023. Under constitutional changes approved last year, the...

A shooter opened fire during a baby naming ceremony at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday, killing 11 people. At least six other people were wounded, including four police officers who dashed to the scene, authorities said. Police said a suspect was in custody after the attack...

Brazil's presidential candidates made their final push for voters Saturday with pitches that summarized the gulf between them: leftist Fernando Haddad held a "peace rally" in the favelas while far-right front-runner Jair Bolsonaro reached out on Twitter. On the last day before a run-off...

 Khalifa Haftar, a military commander who controls eastern Libya, has said he will attend a conference in Sicily next month aimed at reconciling rival factions in the north African nation, Italy's foreign minister said on Saturday. The meeting will be held in the Sicilian capital,...

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Saturday that those behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi would be prosecuted in the kingdom and that the investigation would take time. Jubeir told a security summit in Bahrain that Riyadh's relations with the United States...