Three rebels and one civilian were killed in violence in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, police said, two days after soldiers killed five fighters along the de-facto border with Pakistan. Inspector general of police Muneer Ahmed Khan said soldiers and police cordoned off a residential area...

Ratcheting political tensions between the United States and North Korea sent European shares south on Wednesday, with all major benchmarks and sectors in the red and investors rushing to gold, while strong results from Scout24 and Novo Nordisk shone. The pan-European STOXX 600 fell 0.5...

A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck a remote, mountainous part of China's southwestern province of Sichuan, killing 19 people, including six tourists, and injuring 247, the provincial government and official media said on Wednesday. The quake hit a sparsely populated area 200 km (120 miles)...

In an exchange of threats, U.S. President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang of “fire and fury like the world has never seen” and the North’s military claimed Wednesday it was examining plans for attacking Guam. The high-level tit-for-tat follows reports that North Korea has mastered a crucial...

Japan Display Inc on Wednesday said it would reduce 50 billion yen ($455 million) in annual fixed costs through restructuring steps, including consolidating production sites and cutting jobs. Read More: Syrian activists: Damascus suburbs under heavy bombardment Crime rates hike in...

An Israeli teenager accused of a wave of bomb threats against dozens of Jewish community centers advertised his services on a now-shuttered online black market, offering to threaten any school for $30, according to U.S. authorities. Recently unsealed court documents suggest that Michael...

 Global oil producers said Tuesday they remained committed to cutting output and stemming the collapse in oil prices, OPEC said. A technical panel including members of the Saudi-led cartel and other oil producers made the statement after a two-day session in Abu Dhabi. OPEC states...

President Donald Trump blasted North Korea after a new report Tuesday said U.S. intelligence has assessed that Pyongyang has successfully produced a nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles. Washington's alarm over North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's pursuit of a nuclear capability has...

A Belgian bomb squad found no explosives after a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb in his car was stopped by police, Brussels prosecutors said on Tuesday. "It's a mentally unstable person," a spokeswoman for prosecutors said. "The military did not find any explosive in his vehicle."...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani presented his cabinet to parliament for a vote of confidence on Tuesday, keeping in place the chief architect of Tehran's nuclear accord with global powers. In his first term, Rouhani championed an agreement with the United States and five other powers in...

Hong Kong has closed more than a dozen beaches after a palm oil spill washed foul-smelling, Styrofoam-like clumps ashore, the latest major environmental disaster to blight the territory's waters. The Chinese-controlled city closed two more beaches in the south of Hong Kong island on Tuesday,...

Venezuelan security forces have wielded excessive force to suppress protests, killing dozens and have arbitrarily detained 5,000 people since April, including 1,000 still in custody, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday. In preliminary findings based on 135 interviews...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson landed in Bangkok on Tuesday with a plea to the kingdom to curb business ties with North Korea, as Washington rounds up allies for its bid to halt Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. Tillerson is the highest level American diplomat to visit Thailand since a...

The direction of President Donald Trump's foreign policy is at the center of a battle between two of his top aides. Conservative groups are targeting national security adviser H.R. McMaster. They argue that he's insufficiently supportive of Israel and not tough enough on Iran. Those critics...

An Israeli officer was killed and his co-pilot seriously injured when their Apache attack helicopter crashed on landing at an air force base, a military spokeswoman said on Tuesday. "A military helicopter crashed at an Israeli Air Force (IAF) base in southern Israel," she told AFP, adding...

The U.N. warned of a deepening crisis Tuesday after another asylum-seeker was found dead at a Pacific island detention camp, urging Australia to ensure protection for vulnerable refugees as closure of the facility nears. Canberra sends anyone who tries to enter the country by boat without a...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said a U.N. commission probing war crimes in Syria should continue its work despite the resignation of prosecutor Carla Del Ponte from the panel. Del Ponte quit in protest at the lack of followup action from the U.N. Security Council to a...

A bomb blast on Monday wounded at least 22 people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, a government official said, with no one immediately claiming responsibility. Attacks in the Punjab provincial capital have become less frequent over the past couple of years but Islamist militant...

A Pakistani charity that the United States accuses of being a front for anti-India militant group that staged the 2008 Mumbai attacks has entered politics by forming a new party, charity officials said Monday. The new Milli Muslim League party will follow the ideology of Jamaat-ud-Dawa...

An Israeli military court has refused to postpone the imprisonment of a soldier sentenced to 18 months for killing a wounded Palestinian and he will be jailed this week, the army said Monday. Elor Azaria had applied on Sunday for a delay to his prison term. "His request was rejected and...