With heavy rains persisting and waters still rising over much of waterlogged eastern Canada, the nation's military on Sunday tripled the number of troops urgently working to evacuate thousands of residents. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre declared a state of emergency for his city,...

A gas leak in a coal mine in central China has killed 18 people, local authorities said Monday. The leak happened on Sunday morning when miners were working in the shaft of the mine in Youxian county in Hunan province, according to a statement from the propaganda department of the Communist...

 A 6-year-old Australian boy photographed making an ISIS salute in front of a human body hanging from a cross somewhere in the Middle East was entitled to return to Australia with his siblings, Australia's prime minister said on Monday. But such children who returned from the...

The city of Montreal declared a state of emergency on Sunday afternoon as floodwaters spread from torrential rains that have lashed the city since early on Friday, causing the worst flooding in decades, city officials said. The state of emergency, which gives firefighters extra...

( The New Arab )- US President Donald Trump will reportedly give the green light for US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria to oust the Islamic State group from Raqqa city, despite Turkish objections. Trump will tell President Tayyip Erdogan that SDF fighters will go head with the operation to...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani faced furious protests from victims' families on Sunday when he visited the site of a mine accident that claimed dozens of lives, two weeks ahead of an election. Local news agencies showed people stamping on Rouhani's car and beating the windows as it tried to...

Waterlogged parts of eastern Canada were hit with more rain early Sunday, as freshly deployed troops helped evacuate residents ahead of peak flooding expected in the coming days. Torrential rains combined with runoff from melting snow have caused rivers to overflow their banks, posing a...

Thousands of women dressed in white marched in Venezuela's capital Saturday to keep pressure on President Nicolas Maduro, whose authority is being increasingly challenged by protests and deadly unrest. Led by opposition leaders, lawmakers and Lilian Tintori -- the wife of jailed opposition...

Nigeria's president says he will meet Sunday with 82 Chibok schoolgirls freed this weekend after being kidnapped three years ago by Boko Haram. President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement that he will receive the released schoolgirls in Nigeria's capital, Abuja. The president said the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a Moscow-backed plan to set up so-called de-escalation zones inside Syria would "50 percent" solve the six-year conflict, in comments published Thursday. Erdogan Wednesday discussed with Russian President Vladimir Putin a plan floated by Moscow for...

Amazon (AMZN.O) launched deliveries of fresh groceries in Berlin and neighboring Potsdam on Thursday for members of its Prime subscription service, a move that could accelerate online sales of food that have been sluggish in Germany so far. Amazon said in a statement that Prime members can...

North Korean and Chinese media were at loggerheads Thursday after Pyongyang's official news agency issued a rare and stinging denunciation of its chief ally and diplomatic backer. Beijing should be grateful to Pyongyang for its protection, said a bylined commentary carried by the Korean...

University students in Venezuela will lead a fresh round of marches against President Nicolas Maduro Thursday, a day after police fired tear gas and protesters hurled Molotov cocktails in rallies against his plan to rewrite the constitution. Violence erupted in the latest of more than a...

 Pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen face off in a final televised debate on Wednesday that will showcase their starkly different visions of France's future ahead of this weekend's presidential election run-off. The stakes are high for the televised duel...

The leaders of Russia and Turkey on Wednesday publicly re-affirmed their commitment to working together to end the conflict in Syria, despite a gas attack on a Syrian city that tested their fragile alliance. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan,...

Turkey will continue to take measures against threats from its southern borders with Syria and Iraq, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday. Erdogan, speaking at a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin after a meeting in the Black Sea city of Sochi, said he believed Putin...

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russia's relationship with Turkey had fully recovered after what he called a crisis caused by Ankara's shooting down of a Russian warplane near the Syrian border in 2015. Russia retaliated against Turkey at the time with a slew of economic...

 North Korea Wednesday confirmed the arrest of a U.S. citizen who was lecturing in Pyongyang -- the third American held in the country amid growing tensions with Washington. Kim Sang-Duk, or Tony Kim, was detained at the capital's airport on April 22, as he tried to leave the country...

Iran's reformist former president Mohammad Khatami has skirted a media ban to endorse moderate incumbent Hassan Rouhani for a second term over conservative challengers in a tight May 19 election. Khatami, who during his 1997-2005 presidency oversaw a rapprochement with the West, has been...

A powerful blast targeting a foreign forces convoy near the U.S. embassy and NATO headquarters in Kabul killed at least eight people and wounded 25 Wednesday, officials said, the latest attack in the Afghan capital. Interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish confirmed the toll, telling AFP...