The Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is getting warmer and brighter as clouds and thunderstorms from the rainy season recede. The fragrance of butter flowers that accompany the Ethiopian New Year wafts through the air. But some 1,125 kilometers (699 miles) from Ethiopia, in the...

A booster rocket carrying a Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian and U.S. astronaut on board headed for the International Space Station failed midair Thursday, forcing the crew to make an emergency landing. The rocket was carrying U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei...

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered an operation to lure Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then detain him, according to U.S. intelligence intercepts of Saudi officials discussing the plan. The...

Jamal Khashoggi believed he was safe in Turkey. Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist and newspaper editor, had lived in exile in Washington for more than a year, writing a column for the Washington Post in which he regularly criticized his country’s crackdown on dissent, its war in...

The death toll from floods across much of central and southern Nigeria has reached 199, the national disaster agency said Wednesday, almost doubling the number of people killed from three weeks earlier. The almost annual floods, exacerbated by poor infrastructure and lack of planning to...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday the United States is ready to help in any way in the investigation of the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Pence was asked on the Hugh Hewitt syndicated radio program if Washington would send FBI technicians to...

The fiancee of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday asked President Donald Trump to help uncover what happened to the Riyadh critic who she said had "been fighting for his principles". Hatice Cengiz made the appeal in an opinion piece for The Washington Post newspaper,...

Donald Trump says has not spoken to Saudi officials about missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi but will at some point

Nikki Haley resigned Tuesday as the US ambassador to the United Nations, in the latest departure from President Donald Trump's national security team. Meeting Haley in the Oval Office, Trump said that Haley had done a "fantastic job" and would leave at the end of the year. "She...

The death toll from last month’s earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has risen to over 2,000, local media reported Tuesday. According to the Indonesian news agency Antara, military authorities in the region announced that the Sept. 28 earthquake and tsunami in Sulawesi Island of...

India has sent experts to try to contain an outbreak of the zika virus in the popular tourist destination of Jaipur, the capital of the northern state of Rajasthan, with a close watch on pregnant women. Twenty-two people in the city have tested positive, the Health Ministry said. There...

The U.S. representative for Afghanistan reconciliation on Monday called on the Taliban to come up with an authorized team of negotiators for peace talks. Zalmay Khalilzad, an Afghan-born U.S. diplomat, made the call to reporters during his trip to the capital Kabul as part of his tour...

 Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh dismissed Monday as "nonsense" claims by the Saudi crown prince that Saudi Arabia can replace sanctions-hit Iranian oil in the market. "(Mohammed) bin Salman's remarks can only satisfy (U.S. President Donald) Trump. No one else will...

The German government has sharply condemned the killing of a Bulgarian journalist, calling it "a brutal and dreadful murder." A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry said that it's imperative "that there's a fast investigation and that this horrible event will be illuminated as...

The Taliban Monday vowed to target government security forces in upcoming parliamentary elections, as U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with Afghan leaders to discuss ways to end the 17-year war. Describing the polls as a "malicious American conspiracy", Taliban spokesman Zabihullah...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was ready to allow international inspectors into the North's nuclear and missile testing sites, one of the main sticking points over an earlier denuclearisation pledge. Pompeo, who met Kim during a short...

War-weary Afghans continue to long for peace amid a deadly and resurgent insurgency 17 years since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom, the longest war by the U.S. claiming hundreds of thousands of lives and costing trillions of dollars. Many observers in Afghanistan see the resent...

Italy will close its airports to unauthorized planes carrying migrants from Germany, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday, ratcheting up a dispute between the EU partners over how to share responsibility for asylum seekers. The two countries have been working on a deal under...

The Taliban have destroyed highway bridges southwest of Kabul during a wide-ranging assault on security forces, cutting off road traffic between the capital and three provinces, officials said Sunday. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said Afghan security forces repelled the...

Stepping gingerly through the pulverised remnants of her Indonesian village, Nonlis Kando spotted a white shoebox imprinted with neon red lips sticking up from the ruins, and burst into tears. The 35-year-old office worker had found her home -- or what was left of it after an earthquake...