A gunman and three women thought to be his hostages were found dead Friday at a California veterans home after an hours-long standoff with police. The assailant struck at 10:20 am (1820 GMT) at the Veterans Home of California-Yountville in the Napa Valley, the largest veterans' home in...
Gunmen suspected to be herdsmen have killed at least five people in central Nigeria's Plateau state, police said Saturday, in the latest violence linked to tensions over grazing rights. Thursday's attack happened just as President Muhammadu Buhari was rounding up a tour of Plateau and...
Election observers of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Thursday hailed the conduct of the March 7 presidential, parliamentary and local council polls in Sierra Leone. In a statement, the bloc -- comprising 70 observers led by Liberia’s former interim president,...
President Donald Trump has accepted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's invitation to meet for de-nuclearization talks, South Korea's national security advisor confirmed Thursday. Chung Eui-Yiong told reporters during brief remarks at the White House that Trump has agreed to meet Kim by...
Domestic and international considerations are behind Russian president's remark that Moscow has developed several advanced weapons, including intercontinental underwater drones and nuclear-powered cruise missiles, according to Turkish analysts. Vladimir Putin’s statements made on March...
LONDON: The wife of an Iranian-Canadian environmental activist who died in prison in Tehran last month was barred from leaving Iran, one of her sons said, in an unexplained move that drew an angry response from Canada. Raam Emami said in an email to journalists that security forces had...
Hundreds of Canadian doctors, medical specialists and residents, as well as medical students, have signed a petition protesting their own pay raises, instead asking that the money be reallocated to help nurses and patients in need. "We, Quebec doctors who believe in a strong...
Donald Trump has obtained a restraining order against the porn star Stormy Daniels to prevent her speaking out about their alleged relationship. The White House confirmed Mr Trump had "won in arbitration" proceedings against Ms Daniels - whose real name is Stephanie Clifford - but said...
India’s top court on Thursday overturned a decision of the Kerala High Court which had annulled the marriage of Hadiya, a Kerala-based girl who converted to Islam and married a Muslim man. A bench, led by Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, allowed Hadiya to live with her husband,...
SANTIAGO (Reuters)- Eleven countries are expected to sign a landmark Asia-Pacific trade agreement in Santiago Thursday as an antidote to the increasingly protectionist bent of the United States, which pulled out of the pact last year. The signing ceremony comes the day after Europe and...
BEIJING (AP)- The Bank of China has pledged at least 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) to create a massive giant panda conservation park in southwestern Sichuan province. China's forestry ministry announced Thursday an agreement between the bank and the provincial government to finance the...
YANGON (Reuters)- Police in Myanmar searched the family home of Reuters reporter Wa Lone looking for material "related to news" the night after he and a colleague were arrested on suspicion of violating the Official Secrets Act, an officer told a court on Wednesday. Myanmar has...
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP)- Refugee girls are only half as likely as their male peers to go to secondary school, the U.N. said Wednesday, urging efforts to break down barriers to education for girls in exile. Refugees in general have far less access to schooling than other children, and...
A Russian An-26 military transport aircraft has crashed in Syria while landing at the Hmeimim airport, killing all 39 people on board, according to the Russian Defense Ministry on Tuesday. Earlier, the ministry had put the death toll at 32, but later revised it. A total of 33...
WASHINGTON (AP)- President Donald Trump is denying his White House is chaotic but says more staff will leave as he seeks "perfection." Trump tweets Tuesday: "The new Fake News narrative is that there is CHAOS in the White House. Wrong! People will always come & go, and I want strong...
LONDON (Reuters)- Britain will respond robustly if it is proved that Russia was involved in an incident which left a former Russian double agent in a critical condition, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Tuesday. "There is much speculation about the disturbing incident in Salisbury,...
LONDON (Reuters)- Aid agencies in Britain have reported 80 cases where they have caused harm, or a risk of harm, since a sexual abuse scandal broke last month, a watchdog body said Monday at a summit to tackle sexual exploitation in the sector. Some reports related to allegations of...
BEIJING: Thousands of Chinese legislators erupted into enthusiastic applause on Monday over plans to give President Xi Jinping a lifetime mandate to mould the Asian giant into a global superpower. China's rubber-stamp parliament met in the imposing Great Hall of the People for an annual...
Officials in Poland say four people have died and 24 have been injured in the collapse of an apartment block in the western city of Poznan. A spokesman for the local firefighters, Slawomir Brandt, said 24 teams of firefighters were working in the rubble after the collapse Sunday of a...
North Korea is ready to go to war with the U.S. and will refuse talks with “any precondition,” according to Pyongyang’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday. “The U.S. should not misjudge our intention for dialogue,” a ministry spokesperson stated according to the North’s official KCNA news...
