KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he heard "unimaginable" accounts of atrocities during a visit Monday to vast camps in Bangladesh that are home to a million Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar. Guterres described the situation for the...

President Donald Trump said Sunday he wants to wait until after the midterm elections in November to sign a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico. “NAFTA, I could sign it tomorrow, but I’m not happy with it. I want to make it more fair, okay?” Trump told...

France's military said a number of civilians had been killed in an attack in the northern Malian town of Gao and that it was assessing the state of a 30-strong French patrol that came under attack. Army spokesman Patrik Steiger said an explosion had happened near three French vehicles...

A suicide bomber targeted a convoy of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afghanistan's president in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 19 people. Inamullah Miakhail, spokesman for the provincial hospital in Nangarhar, said that 17 out of 19 dead in the attack...

MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — Thai navy divers leading the search for 12 boys and their soccer coach in a cave have failed to make much headway in their effort to push through the murk of a kilometer- (half-mile-) long chamber to what is believed to be a clear area leading to where the missing may...

WASHINGTON (AP) — They wore white. They shook their fists in the air. They carried signs reading: "No more children in cages," and "What's next? Concentration Camps?" In major cities and tiny towns, hundreds of thousands of marchers gathered Saturday across America, moved by accounts of...

(AP) — President Donald Trump claimed Saturday that he never pushed House Republicans to vote for immigration bills that failed last week, offering his latest display of whiplash on the legislation. Trump tweeted from his New Jersey golf club that he didn't press GOP lawmakers to...

 The French cement giant Lafarge was charged on Thursday with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing terrorists, for allegedly paying millions to jihadists, including the Islamic State group, to keep a factory open in war-torn Syria. The company, whose Syrian...

 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that Russia could walk away from the global chemical weapons watchdog after member nations voted to allow the group to assign blame for chemical attacks. In an interview with Britain's Channel 4 News, Lavrov denounced a vote this...

Islamist militants raided the headquarters of a regional military taskforce in central Mali Friday afternoon, opening fire with rockets and guns and attempting to infiltrate the base, the defence ministry said. There were no immediate details on casualties at the compound in Sevare used...

At least five people are dead and several others “gravely injured” after a gunman opened fire Thursday in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. “There are five fatalities that we know of,” Anne Arundel County Acting Police Chief Bill Krampf said at a press...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says the next month's U.S.-Russian summit could become a historic event. Gorbachev was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying Thursday that if Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump make steps toward cooperation,...

A court in Mombasa coastal region on Thursday found five Kenyan police officers guilty of the 2012 murder of Briton aristocrat Alexander Monson, who was the son of British Lord Nicholas Monson. The court said Alexander Monson had died from blunt force trauma to his head, which is...

The Taliban rebels killed at least 16 members of the Afghan police on the last day of the government’s unilateral 18-day cease-fire, officials confirmed on Thursday. According to Sunnat Temor, spokesman for the governor of Takhar province, the rebels attacked check posts of the Afghan...

BRUSSELS (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog plans to vote Wednesday on whether it should have authority to apportion blame for attacks, an idea arising from frictions between Britain and its key Western allies on one side and Russia and Syria on the other. The British...

Ethiopia's prime minister greeted an Eritrean delegation Tuesday at the start of the first high-level visit in nearly two decades that has raised hopes of ending one of Africa's most intractable military stand-offs. Olympic athletes, singers, actors and religious leaders were also at...

Congolese security forces and militia have committed atrocities amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including killing and raping women and children, U.N. human rights investigators said Tuesday. In a report denouncing "a serious problem of impunity", the independent...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear Sudan's appeal of $314.7 million in damages awarded in a lawsuit seeking compensation for American sailors injured in 2000 in the deadly Al-Qaeda bombing of the Navy destroyer USS Cole in a Yemeni port. The damages were levied by default...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday called for calm after 86 people were killed in an attack by suspected nomadic herders against farming communities in the restive centre of the country. The grim discovery in the Barikin Ladi area of Plateau state came after days of violence...

Divisions in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc have weakened public support for her "grand coalition" and pushed the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to its highest ratings, a poll published Sunday showed. The poll conducted by Emnid for the Bild am...