More than 350 mosques and Islamic groups across the U.K. on Monday called on the ruling Conservatives to launch an internal probe of multiple allegations of Islamophobia within its ranks. The action follows 11 separate umbrella organizations from across the U.K. calling for an urgent...

At least seven people were killed and eight others wounded in a suicide bomb attack targeting a gathering of religious scholars in capital Kabul on Monday, according to police. Police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai told Anadolu Agency: “Tight security was in place for the gathering of the...

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un's right-hand man met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House Friday to deliver a letter from his leader that could pave the way to a historic nuclear summit. Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of North Korea's ruling party executive and a veteran...

North Korea suggested Friday that South Korea host joint events this month to celebrate the first ever inter-Korean summit on June 15, 2000. The North's proposal was one of a series of cooperation plans discussed during high-level talks that got underway at the Panmunjom border village...

A Russian journalist reported murdered a day earlier appeared at a press conference in Ukraine Wednesday, with a tale to tell. "I'm still alive, keep dreaming," Arkady Babchenko said entering the venue for the press conference, showing that despite reports, he had not been shot to death in...

A law meant to protect Afghan women from violence is being undermined by authorities who routinely refer even serious criminal cases to traditional mediation councils that fail to protect victims, the United Nations said Tuesday. The Elimination of Violence against Women (EVAW) law,...

The Kremlin said Tuesday that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and other related crimes would end one day, describing it as pointless. "There's hope that it will wind up one day," Kremlin...

More than three million cases of dengue fever, the world's fastest-spreading tropical disease, could be avoided annually if global warming is capped at 1.5C, said a study that purports to be the first to show the health benefits of a cooler planet. The mosquito-borne viral infection...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Surprised Singaporeans pursued North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Sunday before realizing the portly man with slick black hair near the Marina Bay Sands hotel was an impersonator. “It looked like the real Kim Jong Un, but later I realized it’s not the real one,”...

Two U.S. Navy warships sailed near South China Sea islands claimed by China Sunday, two U.S. officials told Reuters, in a move likely to anger Beijing as President Donald Trump seeks its continued cooperation on North Korea. The U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity,...

President Donald Trump said Friday a meeting he cancelled with his North Korean counterpart just yesterday could still go ahead on June 12, saying "we’re talking to them now" about putting it back on track. "It could even be the 12th," Trump told reporters at the White House, referring...

Seoul's presidential office said Saturday it is "fortunate" that U.S. President Donald Trump might yet meet with his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un as scheduled on June 12. Presidential spokesman Kim Eui-kyeom welcomed the fact that "the possibility of the North Korea-U.S....

Turkey on Friday evening said no casualties were reported in a May 10 attack on a Turkish cargo ship in Yemen. In a written statement, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy said the cargo ship Ince Inebolu was attacked by a missile along the coast of Yemen on its way to Saleef...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he would not serve more than two presidential terms in a row, as the Russian constitution states. His current presidential term, his second in succession, ends in 2024.

Pope Francis has slammed untrue claims linking Islam with terrorism, according to local media reports Thursday. According to the ANSA news agency, the pope said the view equating Islam with terrorism is baseless. "It might be coming out of many people's mouths, but this equation...

A Sudanese teenager sentenced to death for killing her husband after he allegedly raped her has filed an appeal, her lawyer said Thursday. Noura Hussein had been found guilty of the "intentional murder" of a man she said raped her after being forced to marry him at the age of 16 by her...

Pope Francis warned Italian bishops this week to vet carefully applicants to the priesthood and reject anyone they suspected might be homosexual, local media reported Thursday. "Keep an eye on the admissions to seminaries, keep your eyes open," the pope was quoted as saying by newspaper...

U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday called off a historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for next month, even after North Korea followed through on a pledge to blow up tunnels at its nuclear test site. Trump announced his abrupt withdrawal from what would have...

China criticized the U.S. on Thursday after Pentagon announced it withdrew its invitiation to Beijing to participate in the upcoming Pacific military drill on the pretext of the country's continued militarization of the South China Sea.  Ministry of National Defense spokesman Ren...

The Kremlin Thursday said Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned with her ex-spy father in Britain in March, could have been pressured into making a video saying she was not ready to return to Russia. On Wednesday Yulia Skripal said she one day hoped to return to her home country but first...