Immediately on returning from North Korea on Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will embark on talks with allies in Europe, the Middle East and Asia to try to persuade them to press Iran to curb its nuclear and missile programs, U.S. officials said. The open question is whether...

An explosion killed at least five people and wounded 10 Wednesday in a market for the stimulant leaf khat in southern Somalia, police and residents said. The blast, whose cause was not immediately clear, occurred in the busy market in the town of Wanlaweyn in the Lower Shabelle region,...

The UK, France and Germany expressed ‘regret and concern’ Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal. In a joint statement, British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

Five people have been killed in a coal mine blast in central China's Hunan Province on Wednesday, the country’s official news agency reported. The colliery gas explosion happened at about 3.10 a.m. local time [1910GMT] at the coal pit of a private company in Shaodong County, Xinhua news...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday his recently confirmed top diplomat is enroute to North Korea to lay the groundwork for an historic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. "Plans are being made. Relationships are building," Trump said at the White House as Secretary of State...

U.S. President Donald Trump said he will discuss trade with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, as both sides continue talks after failing to reach a consensus at talks in Beijing last week. Trump announced the planned telephone call in a post on Twitter, just days after a U.S....

The U.N. mission to Afghanistan says 30 children were among those killed in an Afghan air raid last month that officials said targeted insurgents. The U.N. released a report Monday saying that a total of 36 people were killed in the April 2 attack, which it said targeted a religious...

Vladimir Putin on Monday was sworn in as Russian president in the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, marking the official commencement of his fourth term in this position. "Consider my duty and the meaning of my life to do everything for the prosperity and well-being of Russia", Putin told...

The man believed to have shot Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal Sunday was affiliated to the new ultra-religious Tehreek-e-Labaik party, according to a police report seen by Reuters. The report said the shooter was Abid Hussain, 21, who "showed his affiliation" to the party,...

 Rescue teams have confirmed the death of a second Polish coal miner and are searching for three more trapped nearly a kilometer underground after a quake, the chief executive of the mine owner said. The quake hit the Borynia-Zofiowka-Jastrzebie coal mine in southern Poland on...

 Presidential lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that Donald Trump would not be required to comply with a potential subpoena from the special counsel investigating possible collusion with Russia. But Giuliani, whose statements since he recently joined Trump's legal team have created...

Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was shot and injured during a public meeting in his native town in northeastern Punjab province, a government official said. State Minister for Interior Talal Chaudhery told Anadolu Agency: “An unknown assailant has attacked the interior minister during a...

Indian armed forces on Sunday killed five militants, including a top commander and a university professor, in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir. According to the police in the region, the gunbattle began early on Sunday morning in Badigam village of Shopian.  ...

Indian armed forces on Saturday killed three suspected militants in a gunbattle in Chattabal area, on the outskirts of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, police said. The gunbattle broke out on Saturday morning after the Indian forces launched a search operation in the area, where mobile...

President Donald Trump is offering his latest teaser for a historic U.S. summit with North Korea: The time and place have been set, but he's not saying when and where. The White House on Friday did announce the details of a separate meeting later this month between Trump and South...

Seven miners were killed at Sibanye-Stillwater's Masakhane mine while six others are recovering in hospital after being trapped underground for two days, the company said Saturday. A total of 13 miners had been trapped at the mine located in its Driefontein operations west of...

The United States on Friday asked the UN Security Council to reject the "unacceptable" and "deeply disturbing" remarks by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas about Jews that included "vile anti-Semitic slurs." Abbas apologized over the remarks delivered in an address to the Palestinian...

An angry Donald Trump dismissed a growing storm over a hush money payment to an adult movie star as "crap" Friday, as he denied changing his story on the scandal. After months of claiming he knew nothing of the $130,000 his personal lawyer paid the porn actress Stormy Daniels, who...

Three suspected female suicide bombers and four civilians were killed in northeastern Maiduguri city late Thursday night, according to the country's relief agency Friday. “Last night at around 11 p.m. local time, three teenaged female suicide bombers tried to infiltrate Mainari Shuwa...

Nearly 1,500 residents were ordered to evacuate from their volcano-side homes after Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano erupted, sending molten lava to chew its way through forest land and bubble up on paved streets. Volcano officials couldn't predict how long Thursday's eruption may last,...