Hundreds of Afghan polling centres opened Sunday for a second day of voting in a chaotic legislative election marred by deadly violence and technical glitches that have eroded its credibility. Around three million people defied the threat of militant attacks to cast their ballot in the...

Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed at least 11 civilians in the eastern Nangarhar province. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, says the victims of Sunday's blast include six children. The attack occurred on the second day of Afghanistan's...

RIYADH (Reuters) - As Saudi Arabia faced intensifying international scepticism over its story about the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a senior government official laid out a new version of the death inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul that in key respects contradicts previous...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he will pull the country out of a nuclear arms agreement with Russia. The deal being referred to is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, ratified in 1987 by the U.S. and the then-Soviet Union, which eliminated all nuclear...

France on Saturday “strongly” condemned the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. According to a statement issued by French Foreign Ministry, the country is still looking for clarity on the issue. Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post, had gone missing since...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday said those behind Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death must be brought to book and called for "transparency" from Riyadh. "Those responsible must answer for their actions," Merkel and Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said in a joint statement....

Pakistan's finance minister promised Saturday to end the country's reliance on International Monetary Fund bailouts to shore up its shaky economy, as officials prepare to negotiate a new loan. Asad Umar's pledge comes days after Pakistan's central bank warned inflation could double in...

The U.K. is mulling over its "next steps" after Saudi Arabia claimed journalist Jamal Kashoggi died during a brawl inside its consulate in Istanbul, a British Foreign Office spokesman said Saturday. “We send our condolences to Jamal Khashoggi’s family after this confirmation of his...

European Parliament President Antonio Tajani said Saturday that an international investigation is urgently needed to examine evidence and clarify circumstances surrounding the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "Rigorous, international investigation urgently needed to examine...

Turkey vowed Saturday to reveal all details of the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after Saudi Arabia admitted he was killed at the kingdom's Istanbul consulate, state media reported. "Turkey will reveal whatever had happened. Nobody should ever doubt about it," said Omer Celik,...

A district police chief says two police were wounded when they tried to defuse an improvised explosive devise found near a polling station in a northwestern neighborhood of the Afghan capital of Kabul. Khaled Haq Parast says two civilians were also wounded when the explosive devise...

Amnesty International says the “impartiality” of a Saudi investigation into the killing of Jamal Khashoggi would remain in question after authorities in the kingdom said the journalist died after a fight in the consulate in Istanbul. Amnesty’s Rawya Rageh says early Saturday the rights...

Republican U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, who has been sharply critical of Saudi Arabia after the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, said on Friday he was highly skeptical of the Saudi explanation for Khashoggi’s death. “To say that I am skeptical of the new Saudi narrative...

   Saudi Arabia said on Saturday that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has died, and said it fired two senior officials over the incident that has provoked an international outcry and strained relations between Riyadh and the West. A statement from the Saudi public prosecutor...

#BREAKING Saudi Arabia confirms Khashoggi killed in Istanbul consulate; top Saudi intelligence official fired: state media

Turkish staffers of the Saudi Consulate General in Istanbul have started to testify to prosecutors over the disappearance of a Saudi journalist earlier this month, a judicial source said.   Fifteen Turkish employees of the consulate came to Istanbul's Caglayan courthouse to...

As Prince Harry and his expectant wife Meghan prepare to tour Fiji and Tonga next week, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the risk of contracting Zika virus in the Pacific nations is low. The British royals, currently in Australia, arranged their trip before Meghan's...

Turkey denied Friday giving "any kind of audio tape" from the investigation into the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom's Istanbul consulate to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo or any American official. "It is out of the question for Turkey to give any kind of...

Saudi Arabia is considering putting the blame for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi on an intelligence officer who is close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the New York Times reported Thursday. Sources told the Times rulers in the kingdom are planning to pin fault on Gen....

President Donald Trump said on Thursday he presumes journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and that the U.S. response to Saudi Arabia will likely be "very severe" but that he still wanted to get to the bottom of what exactly happened. In Istanbul, Turkish investigators for a second time...