An Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest since 2011 has begun a hunger strike over his detention. A website associated with Mahdi Karroubi announced Wednesday that the 79-year-old Shia scholar has stopped eating and is only taking heart medication. The website quoted...

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised North Korea's leader for backing off on plans to fire missiles toward the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam. Trump said in a tweet that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "made a very wise and reasonable decision," adding "the alternative would have...

 Turkey on Wednesday warned that a plan by the leadership in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region to hold a referendum on independence next month could lead to civil war, in Ankara's strongest warning yet against the poll. "In that country (Iraq), which has been through so many problems, a...

Japanese jets conducted air manoeuvres with U.S. bombers southwest of the Korean peninsula on Wednesday as North Korea considered whether to fire missiles towards the U.S.-administered territory of Guam. Reclusive North Korea has made no secret of its plans to develop a missile capable of...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday stressed the need to resolve the crisis in Venezuela peacefully and without external intervention. Lavrov's comments came after U.S. president Donald Trump threatened a possible armed intervention in the South American country, prompting...

Germany's interior minister called for tough measures to crack down on soccer fans who commit violent acts, including stadium bans, after fireworks and fires disrupted a match in the Baltic city of Rostock on Monday. Thomas de Maiziere, who also serves as sports minister, told the daily Bild...

The Libyan coastguard intercepted a humanitarian rescue ship in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, ordering it to sail to Tripoli or risk being targeted, a Reuters photographer aboard said. It was the latest in a series of incidents in which non-governmental organizations (NGOs), operating on the...

At least 11 people were killed by a falling tree during a religious festival on the Portuguese island of Madeira, local media reported on Tuesday. SIC television said 35 others were injured when the tree fell outside a church in a village in the hills overlooking Madeira's capital Funchal....

Mass graves containing the bodies of more than 40 civilians allegedly massacred by Taliban and Daesh (ISIS) insurgents were found on Tuesday after Afghan forces recaptured the village where they died, officials said. In a rare joint operation by the rival militants, fighters killed dozens of...

 Emboldened and proclaiming victory after a bloody weekend in Virginia, white nationalists are planning more demonstrations to promote their agenda after the violence that left a woman dead and dozens injured. The University of Florida said white provocateur Richard Spencer, whose...

 Five suspected Daesh sympathizers have been arrested in Indonesia, a police spokesman said Tuesday, adding that authorities also confiscated bomb making materials. The suspects -- a married couple and three other men -- were detained after a raid by anti-terrorism forces on three...

New U.S. sanctions on Moscow have forced Russian business chiefs to accept that Donald Trump's rise to power is not about to produce a "Trump Bump" in foreign investment. After Trump became U.S. president, some investors said they would be prepared to contemplate new deals with Russian firms...

China has assured the Philippines it will not occupy new features or territory in the South China Sea, under a new status quo brokered by Manila as both sides try to strengthen their relations, the Philippine defense minister said. The minister, Delfin Lorenzana, told a congressional hearing...

 Britain said Tuesday that the European Union's chief negotiator was getting quite cross over the Brexit divorce bill that he thinks Britain should pay but that an agreement would be eventually made. Brexit Secretary David Davis said he wanted to have an interim arrangement with the EU...

Guam officials were "ecstatic" Tuesday as North Korea appeared to back away from its threat to fire four missiles towards the U.S. territory in the western Pacific. "There doesn't appear to be any indication, based on what we're hearing, that there will be any missiles attacking in the near...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed a presidential memorandum authorizing an investigation into China's alleged theft of American intellectual property, declaring it "one big move." The order directs U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to determine whether to investigate...

The United Nations says unidentified gunmen have attacked two U.N. peacekeeping sites in Mali, killing one Malian soldier and one U.N. peacekeeper. U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said the U.N. camp in Douentza in the Mopti region of central Mali came under attack Monday morning. He...

Two U.S. soldiers who were killed in Iraq over the weekend died in an artillery "mishap" and were not killed by enemy action, the Pentagon said Monday. "An Army artillery section was conducting a counterfire mission against an [Daesh] mortar site when a mishap occurred, injuring seven...

A British cybersecurity researcher credited with helping curb a recent worldwide ransomware attack pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges accusing him of creating malicious software to steal banking information three years ago. Marcus Hutchins entered his plea in Wisconsin federal...

Two civilians working on a construction site in Turkey's southeast were killed on Monday in a bomb blast blamed on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), state media said. The two workers lost their lives when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in the Semdinli district of the...