Thousands of people in Russia's second-largest city held competing demonstrations Sunday for and against the return of the renowned St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. The cathedral, one of St. Petersburg's top tourist destinations, was seized by the state after the 1917...

 U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday the U.N. envoy to Yemen had his full support, days after Yemen's Houthi group asked him not to renew the diplomat's term due to what it alleged was bias against the Iranian-aligned movement. In a joint news conference with Saudi...

An Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting that a drone belonging to the Iranian navy has crashed in the southern port town of Jask. The Sunday report by Tasnim, which has ties to the military, said thick smoke rose from the crash site in downtown Jask, some 1,500 kilometers (930...

Seeking to regroup after a stinging legal defeat, President Donald Trump said Friday he is considering signing a "brand new order" after his refugee and immigration travel ban was halted in court. Trump, speaking to reporters on Air Force One, said he expected his administration to win the...

 South Korean prosecutors said Sunday they would question the Samsung heir again as part of a probe into a corruption and influence-peddling scandal that caused President Park Geun-Hye to be impeached. Lee Jae-Yong, Samsung Electronics vice chairman and the son of the Samsung group boss...

North Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea early on Sunday, the first such test since U.S. President Donald Trump was elected, and his administration indicated that Washington would have a calibrated response to avoid escalating tensions. The test was of a medium- or...

Iran's supreme leader said on Saturday the United States and Western powers are regarded with suspicion in the Middle East because of their interference, but that Sweden has a good name among Iranians and is seen as a reputable economic partner. Iran has had relatively good relations with...

Rachid Kassim, an Islamic State recruiter known for his social-media presence, failed music career and links to high-profile terrorist attacks in Europe was targeted by a U.S. airstrike in Iraq, the Pentagon said Friday. Maj. Adrian J.T. Rankine-Galloway, a Pentagon spokesman, said the...

After his travel ban suffered two defeats in the US court system, President Donald Trump has vowed to continue his judicial fight -- but with the controversial measure now on shaky ground, it is likely to be an uphill battle. Trump's executive order -- issued on January 27 with no prior...

At least 10 people including security personnel were killed and several others wounded in a suicide attack by the Taliban in eastern Helmand province of Afghanistan on Saturday, a government official said. Helmand provincial governor spokesman Omer Zowak told Anadolu Agency on the phone that...

Delegations from the Syrian government and rebels along with U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura have been invited to attend meetings on the Syria crisis in Kazakhstan's capital of Astana on Feb. 15-16, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said Saturday. The implementation of the ceasefire government...

Iran has again allowed Russian planes to use its airspace during recent operations in Syria, a senior Iranian security official was quoted as saying Saturday. In August, Russian aircraft for the first time used an Iranian air base to conduct strikes in Syria. The Russian military said its...

(News Hour)- They planned to visit the Statue of Liberty. Randy Olsen and Zaineb Al-Qazwini met in Singapore in 2011 and married. After a two-year application process, Al-Qazwini, an Iraqi citizen, was approved for a green card in December. Their first stop was to be New York, where U.S.-born...

ISIS in Egypt claims to have executed five men it accused of working for the army, which is battling the extremists in the Sinai Peninsula. In a series of photos published Friday on the secure messaging app Telegram, five men presented as army "elements" are seen lying face down on the...

 President Donald Trump says he might give his refugee and immigration travel ban a second try, either as a revision or as a new order, as he contends with an appeals court ruling that prevents the ban from being enforced. Trump said he expected to win the legal battle over his original...

A powerful nighttime earthquake in the southern Philippines killed at least six people and injured more than 120 others, as officials Saturday combed through cracked buildings looking for more casualties. The late Friday quake with a magnitude of 6.5 roused residents from sleep in Surigao...

Australian ISIS figher Khaled Sharrouf has become the country's first dual nationality individual to be stripped of Australian citizenship under anti-terrorism laws, the Australian newspaper said Saturday. Australia, a staunch ally of the United States and its battle against Islamic...

Combining public bluster with behind-the-scenes diplomacy, China wrested a concession from the United States as the two presidents spoke for the first time this week, but Beijing may not be able to derive much comfort from the win on U.S. policy toward Taiwan. Several areas of disagreement...

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) warned on Friday that government actions to bolster domestic companies against foreign competition could hurt its business, in a possible reference to U.S. President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda. In a routine description of regulatory risks in its 2016 annual...

President Donald Trump on Friday appeared to adopt a harsher stance on Israel's illegal settlements, ahead of an upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “They [settlements] don't help the process,” Trump said in an interview with the Israel Hayom newspaper. “I am not...