Zimbabwe's ruling party signaled victory in the presidential election Thursday, telling the opposition a day after deadly violence that "we should all lose graciously," while an anxious country awaited the results, which the electoral commission said would come out "very soon."...

 The Democratic Republic of Congo Thursday flew a team led by Health Minister Oly Ilunga Kalenga to an eastern region hit by Ebola, the country's second outbreak in less than three months, a local official said. The delegation from Kinshasa "arrived in Beni today," the city's...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the situation on the Korean peninsula with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, during a trip to Singapore, the ministry said Thursday. The ministers spoke on the sidelines of a meeting of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should end a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, drawing a rebuke from both Democrats and his fellow Republicans in Congress. The Republican president has long complained...

The White House is announcing that the Treasury Department is imposing sanctions on two Turkish officials over a detained American pastor who is being tried on espionage and terror-related charges. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the Trump administration would sanction...

The sound of automatic gunfire reverberated through Harare on Wednesday as armored military vehicles rolled through the Zimbabwean capital and soldiers fired on opposition activists protesting against alleged electoral fraud. By the time daylight began to fade at least one man had been shot...

Afghan officials say more than 150 Daesh (ISIS) militants have surrendered to government forces in the face of an onslaught by the Taliban in the northern Jawzjan province. Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, the provincial police chief, said 152 fighters surrendered Wednesday, including...

More than 50 boxes handed over by North Korea to the United States last week appear to hold human remains from the 1950-1953 Korean War and are likely American, according to an initial forensic analysis, a U.S. official said Wednesday. A U.S. military transport aircraft on Friday flew...

Twin wildfires tearing through vineyards and brushy hills threatened some 10,000 homes Tuesday in Northern California – yet another front in the battle against the flames that have ravaged some of the state’s most scenic areas. The two fires straddling Mendocino and Lake counties had burned...

President Donald Trump stepped up his onslaught on federal special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election Tuesday, saying that his campaign did not collude with Moscow but that collusion is not a crime anyway. Trump launched his new attack hours before his former...

Iran on Tuesday denied accusations by Tajikistan police that it was partly responsible for an attack that killed four tourists in the former Soviet republic. "The Islamic Republic of Iran denies any link with this terrorist attack and categorically denies that there is any military base...

The first trial of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe begins Tuesday with Paul Manafort, a former chairman of U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign, facing charges that he hid tens of millions of dollars earned in Ukraine in offshore accounts and defrauded banks for loans....

A Reuters reporter heard at least two explosions in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, in an area close to shops and government offices, followed by gunshots. The blasts were the latest in a series that hit Jalalabad in recent weeks, killing and wounding dozens of people....

A man was jailed for 17 years Tuesday for plotting a terrorist attack in Australia after being prevented from travelling to Syria, with the judge saying he continued to hold extremist views. Agim Kruezi, 25, was arrested in 2014 and pleaded guilty in the Brisbane Supreme Court to one...

Australians welcomed on Tuesday the resignation of Archbishop Philip Wilson, who had resisted quitting for two months after he became the most senior Catholic cleric in the world to be found guilty of concealing child sex abuse. Wilson, 67, came under pressure from abuse victims, other...

The United Nations says it received 70 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the second quarter of 2018 – 43 involving U.N. personnel, 24 involving people working for U.N. partner organizations and three pertaining to U.N.-authorized international forces. U.N. deputy spokesman...

Philippine police vowed Monday to revamp and intensify a fight against crime and drugs, a week after President Rodrigo Duterte promised no letup in a bloody crackdown that has alarmed the international community. "Surgical and chilling will be the trademark of the reinvigorated anti-illegal...

In a surprise address to the nation after months of silence, Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe emerged just hours before Monday’s historic election declaring that “I will not vote for those who have illegally taken power” and turning his back on the ruling party he long controlled. Slow...

A polar bear was shot dead after attacking a German cruise ship worker on Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, the authorities said Sunday. The unnamed man in his 40's suffered head injuries shortly after landing on Spitzbergen island. He was accompanying a tourist...

Pope Francis is urging everyone to combat the "shameful crime" of human trafficking, noting that it's often linked to migrant smuggling. In remarks Sunday to the public in St. Peter's Square, Francis decried that many adults and children are trafficked into slavery for forced labor, sex...