Six people were killed and eight wounded when gunmen opened fire at a Quebec City mosque during Sunday night prayers, in what Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called a "terrorist attack on Muslims". Police said two suspects had been arrested, but gave no details about them or what...

(The Independent)- Individual stories of those locked out of the US by Donald Trump's Muslim ban are flooding in, with this year's Academy Awards ceremony certainly not excluded from its effects.  It has already been confirmed that both Asghar Farhadi, whose film The Salesman is...

The phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin Saturday was a display of mutual respect between the two men, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday. In the call, their first conversation since Trump's inauguration, Putin and Trump agreed...

The killing of a top Muslim lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi who was gunned down outside Yangon airport was a political assassination and a "terrorist act", Myanmar's ruling party said Monday. Ko Ni, a legal adviser to the National League for Democracy, was shot in the head Sunday...

(Daily Mail)-The Kremlin may have covered up the murder of a former KGB chief accused of helping ex-MI6 spy Christopher Steele to pull together the notorious dossier on Donald Trump. Oleg Erovinkin served as a general in the KGB and was found dead on Boxing Day in the back of his car in...

Toyota has relinquished the title of the world's biggest automaker, reporting Monday that it sold 10.175 million vehicles worldwide in 2016, fewer than Volkswagen's 10.31 million. General Motors reports its tally next week. If GM's number falls short, it will be the first time the German...

Malaysia expanded a search on Monday for five Chinese tourists and a Malaysian missing after a boat capsized off the coast of Borneo, killing three Chinese passengers and tossing others into stormy seas. The catamaran carrying 28 Chinese tourists and three crew sank late on Saturday as it...

Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz said on Sunday that the company planned to hire 10,000 refugees over five years in 75 countries, two days after U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order banning refugees from certain countries. Trump on Friday put a...

 At least five people were killed and several people wounded after gunmen opened fire at a mosque in Quebec City, media reported. A Quebec police spokesman confirmed that there were people killed, but did not say how many. Two suspects in the shooting were arrested, he said....

(Wall Street Journal)- President Donald Trump’s inclusion of Iraq in the temporary ban on foreign nationals entering the U.S. has alarmed American diplomats who warn it risks upending delicate military, political and business ties at a time when Islamic State is on the cusp of defeat in the...

 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday extended his deadly drug war until the last day of his term in 2022, but conceded the police force acting as his frontline troops was "corrupt to the core". Thousands of people have died in the crackdown that began when Duterte took office...

 Iran summoned Switzerland's ambassador, who represents Washington's interests in Tehran, to protest President Donald Trump's visa ban on Iranians, the foreign ministry said. Swiss ambassador Giulio Haas was "handed a letter of protest on the recent executive order by the US President...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday called for US President Donald Trump to make good on his campaign pledge to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Departing from a long-standing US position, Trump promised he would recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital...

 Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Sunday that US President Donald Trump's decision to ban arrivals from seven Muslim majority countries was "a great gift to extremists". "#MuslimBan will be recorded in history as a great gift to extremists and their supporters," Zarif...

(Al-Jazeera)- US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart have made a "significant start" in fixing their countries' relationship, while agreeing to cooperate in fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, the White House said following an hour-long phone call. The two...

A boat carrying 31 people, including 28 Chinese tourists, has gone missing in the waters off Borneo island, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency said Sunday. "The owner of the boat reported it missing on Saturday evening and we have begun a search and rescue mission," Awil Kamsari, a...

(The Guardian)- On Saturday, Mohamed Muezeb, a 47-year-old convenience store owner from Ridgewood, Queens, woke up to a voicemail from his 17-year-old daughter, Sawsan. She was stranded at Hamad International airport in Qatar, and she was sobbing. A day after Donald Trump signed an executive...

The United States has accepted for resettlement just under 2,200 refugees from Syria since the conflict began in 2011. The vast majority arrived within the last year. They are now arriving at the rate of 45 a week. Though it’s picking up pace, the rate is still far short of what will be needed...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau welcomed those fleeing war and persecution on Saturday even as Canadian airlines said they would turn back U.S.-bound passengers to comply with an immigration ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries. In pointed tweets a day after U.S. President Donald...

(Wall Street Journal)- Citizens of the seven countries identified by President Donald Trump for a 90-day visa ban who hold dual nationality also will be barred from entering the United States, the U.S. State Department said in a statement Saturday. In a statement that the State...