Tunisia on Saturday said it would take in 40 migrants, including two pregnant women, rescued by a commercial vessel. The ship, the "Sarost 5" a Tunisian flagged supply boat, has been blocked for two weeks from docking off Zarzis in southern Tunisia. "For humanitarian reasons, we...

Zimbabwe's president promised a "thunderous victory" and his main challenger told him "bye-bye" as they rallied supporters one last time ahead of Monday's election in a country seeking to move past decades of economic and political paralysis. The vote will be a first for the southern...

Pope Francis Saturday accepted the resignation as a cardinal of Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C. and one of the U.S. Catholic Church's most prominent figures, who has been at the center of allegations of sex abuse with minors and young seminarians. McCarrick was...

Gunmen raided a midwife training center in eastern Afghanistan Saturday in an ongoing attack that has left at least three people wounded and sparked fierce fighting with security forces, officials and witnesses said. At least 67 people, including students and teachers, were inside the...

Tens of thousands of Russians took part Saturday in rallies across the country organized by Communists to protest against highly controversial plans to hike the pension age. In Moscow, organizers said up to 100,000 people gathered for a permitted rally against the government-backed...

President Donald Trump thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday for "fulfilling a promise" to return the remains of U.S. soldiers missing from the Korean War, as a U.S. military plane made a rare trip into North Korea to retrieve 55 cases said to contain remains. Close to 7,700...

Britain has suspended cooperation with the United States over two Deash (ISIS) terror suspects, the government announced Friday, following concerns that they could face the death penalty. Britain said Monday it was sharing intelligence to help the United States bring to trial two...

An American military plane was able to enter North Korea Friday to pick up the remains of U.S. soldiers who fought during the Korean War. Marking the 65th anniversary of the 1950-53 conflict's armistice, the Air Force transport aircraft flew from South Korea early in the morning before...

Extreme weather continued to hit the U.S. East and West coasts Wednesday with flooding ravaging much of the eastern seaboard and fires tearing through the West. On the East Coast, roughly 37 million people have been under a flood watch for the past week, according to the National Weather...

Daesh (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for a shooting in Toronto Sunday that killed two people and wounded 13, the group's AMAQ news agency said Wednesday. The attacker "was a soldier of the Islamic State and carried out the attack in response to calls to target the citizens of the...

South and North Korea appear to remain set for family reunions next month, despite Pyongyang's state media threatening to cancel the event. According to Seoul's Unification Ministry, the neighbors on Wednesday shared the results of their attempts to verify the availability of hundreds...

Pakistanis headed to the polls early Wednesday to elect a new government for the next five years, officials and local media reported. Footage aired on local station Geo TV showed voters queuing outside polling stations in the capital Islamabad as well as in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar,...

A blast killed at least 18 people in Pakistan's western city of Quetta Wednesday in an attack targeting a police van, media said, as the South Asian nation holds general elections. Geo TV put the death toll at 18, while rival Samaa TV put it at 20, adding a "suicide attacker" was...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he believed Moscow will work hard to sway November congressional elections toward Democrats and not his fellow Republicans, despite U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russia tried to put Trump in the White House in 2016. "I'm very...

A doctor awarded an Australian bravery medal for his pivotal work in the Thai cave rescue said he was most frightened by not knowing how much sedation to give to the weakened children. Nine Australians involved in rescuing 12 boys and their 25 -year-old soccer coach were presented with...

Iran has expanded its cyber-attack capabilities and poses a danger to German companies and research institutions, Germany's BfV domestic intelligence agency said in its annual report. The report, released on Tuesday by German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer and the BfV agency, cited...

An attack at the entrance of a military base in southern Somalia on Monday killed four soldiers. A car bomb by the militant group Al-Shabaab was followed by an armed attack on a military base affiliated to government forces in the village of Baar Sanguni -- some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from...

Saesh (Islamic State) said on Sunday a suicide bomber targeted the Afghan vice president near Kabul airport, the group's Amaq news agency. It said the bomber detonated his suicide jacket at a celebration held to receive the vice president, Abdul Rashid Dostum, but gave no further...

Eighteen people have been killed in an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in the Lake Chad region, a Chadian military source said Sunday. "Boko Haram elements attacked a village south of Daboua," not far from Chad's border with Niger, at around 9:00 pm Thursday, the military...

Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat Sunday said his country will take in 19 migrants rescued after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean overnight. Seventeen migrants had initially been rescued by Malta's armed forces in the country's search and rescue area, but a pregnant woman and...