The poisoning of former Russian double agent in England will damage Britain-Russia cooperation in ensuring security for the soccer World Cup being staged in Russia from June, RIA cited a Russian deputy foreign minister as saying Friday. "Indeed, it will have an impact," Oleg Syromolotov...

The U.N. humanitarian agency says 80 people have been reported dead and hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes since March due to heavy rainfall in Kenya. The U.N. statement says 244,400 people have been displaced, the majority of them in Tana River, Kilifi and Mandera...

A huge dust storm and lightning strikes killed at least 125 people across India which braced Thursday for more wild weather. Dust clouds plunged swathes of north India into darkness as choking winds of more than 130 kilometers per hour swept across the states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan...

U.S. President Donald Trump Thursday said his lawyer Michael Cohen did not use presidential campaign funds to pay Stormy Daniels as part of a contract that he said was aimed at stopping the adult-film star from making "false and extortionist accusations" about an affair. "Money from the...

President Donald Trump's lead lawyer dealing with an ongoing special counsel probe into Russia will resign from his post, the White House announced Wednesday. Ty Cobb plans to retire at the end of the month, the White House said in a brief one-sentence statement. Spokeswoman Sarah...

Journalists in Myanmar work under immense pressure by the government which restricts fair reportage of the Rohingya crisis, Anadolu Agency’s editor-in-chief of foreign language services said on Wednesday. Speaking at "Rohingya Crisis and Solutions”, an international conference in...

Myanmar said Wednesday it has agreed to the involvement of United Nations agencies in repatriating Rohingya refugees who have fled to neighboring Bangladesh. Citing State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, a state-owned newspaper reported Wednesday that the government is discussing signing a...

At least nine people were killed and dozens others wounded in Central African Republic's capital Bangui in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a church, a morgue official at the Community Hospital told Reuters. Notre Dame de Fatima was attacked with gunfire and grenades during a morning...

Explosions in and around a mosque in northeast Nigeria killed at least 20 people Tuesday, police said. The blasts in the town of Mubi bore the hallmarks of Islamist militant group Boko Haram, which has waged an insurgency in Africa's most populous country since 2009 and often deploys...

(Newsweek)- Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to redraw the map of the world to better showcase his country’s presence, literally. The Russian leader has called on state geographers to compile a new atlas of the world, which better upholds the “historical and geographic truth”...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two Islamic State suicide bombers struck in Afghanistan's capital on Monday, killing 25 people, including nine journalists who had rushed to the scene of the first attack, in the deadliest assault on reporters since the fall of the Taliban in 2001. An Agence...

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said U.S. President Donald Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the standoff with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, a South Korean official said Monday. "President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is...

 Libya's decision to give up its nuclear program through diplomacy is a model for efforts to have North Korea do likewise, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton said Sunday. "We have very much in mind the Libya model from 2003, 2004," Bolton told Fox News Sunday when asked if...

French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Theresa May Sunday urged the world to keep up the fight against chemical weapons on the anniversary of an international convention banning their use. "On the 21st anniversary of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and following...

 North Korea promised to close its atomic test site next month and invite U.S. weapons experts to the country, Seoul said Sunday, as Donald Trump expressed optimism about securing a nuclear deal in his summit with the secretive regime. The reported pledge from the North's leader...

An Afghan official says a group of children set off an unexploded mortar round in a residential area in the eastern Nangarhar province, causing a blast that killed a woman and two children. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, says another seven children were...

Uganda security forces said they have killed two people and arrested 36 others following a raid in a mosque in a Kampala suburb. Addressing reporters Saturday afternoon, Ugandan counterterrorism police director Abas Byakagaba explained they were following what they described as a key...

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a military camp in the Somali town of Galkayo Saturday, killing four officers, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. The dead included a military commander and two colonels, the town's mayor, Hirsi Yusuf Barre,...

 A Taliban suicide bomber attacked an army base in southern Helmand province Saturday killing four civilians and two soldiers, officials said. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, said three civilians and two soldiers were wounded in the attack in Nad Ali...

Sweden's legendary disco group ABBA announced Friday that they have reunited to record two new songs, 35 years after their last single. "We all four felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio. So we did," the group said in a...