Pope Francis prayed Saturday for the Coptic Christians killed a day earlier in Egypt by Islamic extremists, saying that today there are more Christian martyrs for the faith than in ancient times. During meeting with clergy in the Italian port city of Genoa, Francis urged them to pray "for...

 G7 countries will on Saturday recognize the deadlock about taking collective action on climate change as US President Donald Trump mulls his position, officials said. "The United States is evaluating its policy with regard to the climate, so the six other G7 countries will reaffirm...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's Hassan Rouhani held a phone call in which the two leaders stressed the need for more joint efforts to resolve the Syria crisis and discussed economic ties, the Kremlin said Saturday. The Kremlin added that Putin congratulated Rouhani on his recent...

A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 14 people in Afghanistan on Saturday and fighting between militants and security forces left at least 36 people dead on the first day of Islam's holy Month of Ramadan. In eastern Khost province, an attacker detonated a car bomb near a soccer field...

Philippine security forces dropped more bombs Saturday on a southern city where they have been battling Islamist militants for five days, vowing no let up despite the start of Ramadan. President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law across the southern third of the Philippines in response to...

France's new President Emmanuel Macron will hold delicate talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Monday with the two countries harboring longstanding differences over Ukraine and Syria. Coming just three weeks after an election in which the Kremlin was widely seen as backing...

President Donald Trump on Friday decried an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt that left at least 28 dead, calling on allies to band together to defeat terrorism. "The bloodletting of Christians must end, and all who aid their killers must be punished," he said in a statement issued by his...

At least 15 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their base in Kandahar, officials said Friday, in the third major insurgent assault this week on the military in the southern province. The assault in Shah Wali Kot district late Thursday comes after hundreds of...

The United Nations warned Friday that an energy crisis in the Gaza Strip was severely affecting water supplies and health services, and could trigger an outbreak of violence. UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council that Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas movement,...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday the "problem" of an increasingly belligerent North Korea would be "solved", as he met his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe just before the start of the G7 summit. "It's a big problem, it's a world problem," he said in the Sicilian town of Taormina, just...

European Union president Donald Tusk called Friday on G7 leaders to maintain sanctions on Russia over the conflict in Ukraine, but the White House said it did not yet "have a position" on the issue. The EU and United States under then president Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Moscow over...

The U.N. human rights chief called on all air forces operating in Syria Friday to take greater care to distinguish between legitimate military targets and civilians in their escalating air strikes especially in the northeast against ISIS. "The rising toll of civilian deaths and injuries...

 South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has appointed Justice Mandisa Maya as the President of the Supreme Court of Appeal, the president's office said Friday, making her the first woman to occupy the position. "Her appointment to the position elevates her to the third highest position in...

( The Guardian )- The Manchester Arena bomber, Salman Abedi, had close connections with criminal gangs as well as known and suspected terrorists in the city, it has emerged. Abedi, 22, associated with a gang that has for years waged war with a rival grouping in south Manchester, the...

( The New Arab )- A US federal appeals court on Thursday dealt a fresh setback to President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban, upholding a lower court's decision to block the measure targeting travellers from six Muslim majority countries. The decision - the latest in a series of stinging...

A U.S. military investigation on Thursday acknowledged that more than 100 civilians were killed in a U.S. air strike on a building in the Iraqi city of Mosul in March during operations against ISIS militants. The probe concluded that the U.S. strike in the Al-Jadida district inadvertently...

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "deeply troubling" leaks to U.S. media about the Manchester suicide bombing would be investigated, after irate British police stopped sharing information with U.S. agencies. British Prime Minister Theresa May raised British concerns with Trump at...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will make his first official visit to Britain on Friday in an expression of solidarity following the Manchester terror attack, the Foreign Office in London said. Relations between London and Washington have been strained by repeated leaks emanating from...

Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Thursday the panel could take up a bill to impose new sanctions on Russia as soon as this summer. Corker said he expects U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to testify to the committee...

Libya is working closely with Britain to identify possible "terrorist networks" involved in the attack at a pop concert in Manchester, a senior Libyan official said Thursday. "We are working closely and intensively with our British partners to probe possible terrorist networks and we have...