Forty one children were killed in the Kemerovo shopping mall fire in Russia, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday, citing a list of victims made available to relatives. A total of 64 people had been killed, according to the list, Interfax said.
The U.S. on Monday "strongly" condemned a Houthi barrage rocket attack on Saudi Arabia that killed one person and injured two others. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert called the attack "dangerous" while expressing condolences to the families of those killed and injured....
Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday Russia had "spectacularly failed" in efforts to divide Britain's allies following a nerve agent attack this month on a former Russian spy in an English city. "If the Kremlin's goal is to divide and intimidate the Western alliance, then their...
Fourteen EU member states have expelled dozens of Russian diplomats in an orchestrated reaction Monday, over the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the U.K. At least 43 Russian diplomats have been expelled across Europe so far. "As a...
The U.S. retaliated Monday for a chemical attack in the U.K. blamed on Russia by expelling 60 diplomats Washington said were working as intelligence officers, and orders the closure of Moscow’s consulate in Seattle. Those expelled include 48 embassy employees and 12 individuals...
South Korea has agreed to further open its auto market to the United States as the two countries reached an agreement in principle on amending their six-year-old free trade agreement, its top trade negotiator said Monday. South Korea's Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong said the United...
Adult film star Stormy Daniels says she was threatened to keep silent about an alleged sexual encounter with Donald Trump in 2006, telling her story in a highly anticipated interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" broadcast Sunday. Daniels said she was threatened by an unidentified man in Las...
The Malaysian government Monday proposed a "fake news" law which would carry a maximum 10-year jail term, including for articles published abroad, sparking fears of a crackdown on dissent as elections loom. Governments in several countries, emboldened by U.S. President Donald Trump's...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is considering the expulsion of some Russian diplomats in the United States in solidarity with Britain over the poisoning of a former Russian spy in England, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday. The move may be contingent on...
MOSCOW (AFP) - At least 37 people were killed when a fire ripped through a busy shopping centre in an industrial city in western Siberia, with scores more reported missing, including children. "At this time, we can confirm the deaths of 37 people in the fire at the Kemerovo...
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near a Shi’ite mosque in the Western Afghan city of Herat, killing at least one person and wounding seven others, police said on Sunday. Deputy police chief Aminullah Amin said the bombers had tried to enter the...
Ivorians voted for a new senate on Saturday in a poll likely to shore up President Alassane Ouattara's grip on power, amidst an opposition boycott, while doing little to relieve ethnic tensions lingering from a decade of crisis. The creation of the upper house, a provision of the new...
Several thousand people marched through the Croatian capital Saturday in protest against a European treaty designed to protect women. The demonstration gathered up to 10,000 people according to journalists' estimates and was held two days after conservative Prime Minister Andrej...
Malaysian police have arrested seven men with links to the Daesh (ISIS) militant group who were planning attacks on non-Muslim places of worship and other targets, authorities said Saturday. The Muslim-majority country has been on high alert since gunmen allied with Daesh carried...
A combative Donald Trump threatened Friday to veto a spending deal clinched in a dead-of-night compromise in Congress, in a dramatic U-turn by the president that raises the fresh specter of a government shutdown. The president brandished the threat in a tweet after the Senate passed the...
Europe will not negotiate trade deals with a gun to the head, French leader Emmanuel Macron said Friday, reacting to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to grant the European Union a 40-day exemption on metal tariffs pending further talks. "We will talk about anything as a principal...
An official says in says 12 people have been killed and 40 others wounded in a car bombing outside a sports stadium in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Aminullah Abed, the chief of the province's public health department, in Helmand province said the 12 killed and 40 wounded were...
A former Playboy model apologized to first lady Melania Trump for a 10-month affair she claims she had with President Donald Trump that started with him offering her money after the first time they had sex. During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper that aired Thursday night, Karen...
(Reuters) - A U.S. Senate subcommittee on Thursday sought information from a Cambridge University researcher about how the personal data of 50 million Facebook users landed in the hands of a political consulting firm that worked for U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign. The letter,...
Across Japan’s capital, delicate pink-and-white cherry blossoms are emerging, but the famed blooms are facing a potentially mortal enemy, experts say: an invasive foreign beetle. The alien invader is aromia bungii, otherwise known as the red-necked longhorn beetle, which is native to...
