Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane sent a message of support to those affected by terrorist attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils that have left 14 people dead and over 100 injured. "On behalf of the club, of everyone, I want to say we had a minute's silence and we are thinking of all the...

Eight people were injured in a knife attack in the Siberian city of Surgut, Russian media agencies reported, citing the spokesman for the local office of the Russian law enforcement committee. "A man was running along the main streets stabbing people", TASS reported. The law...

 An Israeli cabinet minister has said relations with US President Donald Trump take priority over condemning neo-Nazis, to justify Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's muted response to events in Charlottesville. Critics have accused Netanyahu of being slow to condemn extremism and...

 President Donald Trump on Friday finally parted ways with controversial far-right chief strategist Steve Bannon, after weeks of speculation and as the administration reels from the fallout over Trump's response to a violent white supremacist rally. Seen as the driving force behind...

Venezuela's new pro-government constitutional authority formally declared Friday it was seizing power from the opposition-led legislature, tightening President Nicolas Maduro's grip on the country in defiance of international outrage. It was the latest maneuver in a deadly political crisis...

With U.S. President Donald Trump increasingly isolated over his response to white nationalist violence in Virginia, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued a broad condemnation of racism on Friday and promised to make his department more racially diverse. Trump is facing a widening backlash...

The forces of Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar said Friday they had detained a senior commander two weeks before the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest over unlawful killings in the flashpoint city of Benghazi. "We hereby inform you that the defendant ......

U.S. stocks dropped early Friday, as the battering of markets in the wake of a major attack in Spain showed no signs of slowing, and amid what one analyst called "festering dysfunction" at the White House. The Dow slipped 0.2 percent to 21,700.43 about 15 minutes after the open, and the...

The United States' most senior military officer on Friday said North Korea understands that an any attack on Japan is equal to one on the U.S. itself - and vice versa. General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held talks with his Japanese counterpart at the defence ministry...

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, under house arrest for six years, ended his hunger strike late Thursday after the government agreed to remove intelligence agents from his home. However, his demand to face trial - he has never been charged since being placed under house arrest in...

Law enforcement in major U.S. cities were on alert Thursday after a terror attack killed at least 13 victims in Spain and injured dozens more. Public information officers in New York, Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles told Anadolu Agency they were monitoring the situation in Barcelona but that...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis insisted Thursday that America is ready to respond to any North Korean threat, after a senior White House official had dismissed talk of a "military option." "In close collaboration with our allies, there are strong military consequences if the DPRK...

An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers. Pauline Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, sat wearing the black...

The United Nations hopes for "serious negotiation" between the government and a still-to-be-formed unified Syrian opposition in October or November this year, the U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. "Regarding the [Syrian] government, we are counting very much on Russia,...

Copenhagen police say they are looking for a body in the case of a Swedish journalist missing since a trip on a home-built submarine. Chief investigator Jens Moeller Jensen says "it is our clear presumption that we are looking for a dead person." Moeller Jensen said in a YouTube clip...

The U.S. military says an American soldier was killed and several others wounded in a battle with Daesh (ISIS) militants in eastern Afghanistan. The military said in a statement that several Afghan forces were also wounded in the fighting on Wednesday in the Achin district of the Nangarhar...

A multi-agency team scoured the ocean off Hawaii for five soldiers aboard an Army helicopter that went down during a nighttime training exercise. The UH-60 Black Hawk went missing when another Army helicopter training with it lost visual and radio contact about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, said Lt....

Turkey's EU minister said on Thursday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's comments about halting the expansion of a customs union between Ankara and the European Union harmed the credibility of the bloc. Merkel said on Wednesday there would be no expansion of the customs union and "no...

President Donald Trump’s turnabout on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia has rocked his administration, leading to rising speculation that some top officials may be looking for a way out. A parade of business executives broke ties with Trump on Wednesday, a day after he blamed white...

A fire destroyed three buildings in a traditional section of Jeddah, listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, the Saudi civil defence said Wednesday. Saudi civil defence said 60 people had evacuated their homes when the fire broke late Tuesday in Al-Balad, a historic district in the Red Sea...