U.S. President Donald Trump plans to speak with German, French and Italian officials on Monday ahead of a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies this week that could expose his sharp differences with world powers on trade and other issues. Trump, who announced the talks on Twitter, is...

Poland's foreign minister says the government would like visiting President Donald Trump to make assurances this week that the presence U.S. troops in Poland will continue as long as the region's security is threatened by Russia. Trump is to deliver a speech in Warsaw during a brief visit...

Iran has signed a $5 billion agreement with France's Total SA and a Chinese oil company to develop its massive offshore natural gas field, the first such deal with foreign companies since the landmark 2015 nuclear deal. Officials signed the agreement in Tehran on Monday. The agreement will...

Sweden is home to some 2,000 Islamist extremists, the nation's intelligence chief said Monday, a nearly 10-fold increase in less than a decade. Anders Thornberg, head of domestic spy service Sapo, attributed the rise primarily to the sophisticated propaganda machine of Daesh (ISIS)....

The threat posed by North Korea was a key topic in phone calls between U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of China and Japan, along with trade issues, the White House said on Sunday. Trump spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ahead of...

A rescue helicopter crashed while heading to help evacuate residents near an active volcano on Indonesia's main island, killing all eight people on board, officials said Monday. The helicopter crashed about three minutes before arriving at Dieng Plateau, the popular tourist area where the...

An Egyptian court on Sunday upheld the death penalty for 20 men charged with killing policemen in the violence that followed the military's ousting of former-President Mohammad Morsi in 2013, while changing the sentence for many others to hefty prison terms. The verdicts can again be...

Taliban militants ambushed and killed 13 members of an anti-militant militia in a mosque in northern Afghanistan, officials confirmed on Sunday. The incident took place a day earlier in the remote village of Haji Nadir in the restive Chamtal district, in the Balkh province bordering...

France and its African partners must work together to wipe out Islamist militants in the volatile Sahel region, President Emmanuel Macron said at the opening of a summit in Mali's capital Bamako on Sunday. Leaders of the G5 Sahel bloc - Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Niger and Chad - were...

U.S. President Donald Trump honored military veterans in Washington on Saturday at a Kennedy Center event that resembled both a political rally and an evangelical Christian religious service ahead of the July 4 Independence Day holiday. Using the podium again to lash out at the news media,...

President Donald Trump defended his aggressive use of Twitter on Saturday just hours after firing off his latest volley in his escalating feud with U.S. media. Following an early morning Twitter tirade at CNN, NBC and a morning show host he taunted as "dumb as a rock," the president then...

No U.S. nuclear power plant has been penetrated in a cyber attack, an industry spokesman said on Saturday, when asked to comment on a U.S. government warning last week about a hacking campaign targeting the sector. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation...

Brazil's top federal prosecutor said on Saturday that he took no pleasure in charging President Michel Temer with corruption, but given the clear indications of graft committed by the leader, there was no alternative. Prosecutor General Rodrigo Janot said at an investigative journalism...

Japan and the European Union are on the cusp of a wide-ranging free trade agreement that could help blunt the forces of protectionism sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump's trade policies. EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said she was "quite confident" that a broad agreement can be...

Five North Koreans in a small boat crossed the sea border into South Korean waters Saturday, a Coast Guard official said, in an apparent bid to defect to the South. The five people, including four men and one woman, have expressed their wish to live in the South as defectors, the Yonhap news...

Pope Francis on Saturday pushed out the Vatican's conservative doctrine chief, tapping a deputy instead to lead the powerful congregation that handles sex abuse cases and guarantees Catholic orthodoxy around the world. Francis and German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller had clashed, most recently...

British Prime Minister Theresa May's government on Saturday rejected demands that she appoint commissioners to run the local government blamed for mishandling the response to the London high-rise apartment building fire that killed at least 80 people. London Mayor Sadiq Khan had asked May to...

The EU will pay an unprecedented tribute Saturday to former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, one of the architects of modern Europe, in a ceremony attended by a host of leaders. Kohl, who oversaw German reunification and was a driving force in Europe's integration, died on June 16 at age of...

Chinese President Xi Jinping swore in Hong Kong's new leader on Saturday with a stark warning that Beijing won't tolerate any challenge to its authority in the divided city as it marked the 20th anniversary of its return from Britain to China. Police blocked roads, preventing pro-democracy...

A House panel has approved a measure calling for debate on new presidential war powers as the U.S. gets more involved in Syria's civil war. The measure proposed by an anti-war Democrat, congresswoman Barbara Lee of California, is now part of a military spending bill. The Republican-led House...