Pro-immigration lawyers in New York City sued Saturday to stall a travel ban enacted by President Donald Trump after two Iraqis were detained at John F. Kennedy International Airport and denied entry into the country despite having legal visas. Legal teams from several immigration groups...

(The Independent)- The World Food Programme (WFP) has been forced to cut food rations to 1.4 million people because the world’s richest countries have delayed paying the organisation.  The food rations of 1.4 million Iraqis, displaced in the war against Isis, had to be halved this month...

President Donald Trump attacked two major U.S. newspapers in a Twitter blast on a busy Saturday when he was scheduled to speak with five world leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin. Trump criticized The New York Times and The Washington Post as being dishonest in a series of tweets that...

Five Iraqi passengers and one Yemeni were barred from boarding an EgyptAir flight from Cairo to New York on Saturday after President Donald Trump halted the entry of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, sources at Cairo airport said. The passengers, arriving in transit to Cairo...

The United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration Saturday to continue offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, saying its resettlement program was vital. U.S. President Donald Trump Friday put a four-month...

Fresh from talks with US President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet Turkish leaders in Ankara Saturday, hoping to expand ties and seal a new trading relationship before Britain leaves the EU. On a one-day visit to the Turkish capital, her first since becoming...

The versatile actor Sir John Hurt, who could move audiences to tears in "The Elephant Man," terrify them in "Alien," and spoof that very same scene in "Spaceballs," has died. He was 77. Hurt, who battled pancreatic cancer, died Friday in London according to his agent Charles McDonald....

When President Donald Trump was elected last November, Republican lawmakers enthusiastically joined his call to rewrite the tax code and dismantle Obamacare in the first 100 days of his presidency. But as congressional Republicans gathered for an annual policy retreat in Philadelphia on...

(BBC)- US President Donald Trump has announced new vetting measures to "keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the US". He signed the executive order at the Pentagon after a ceremony to swear in Gen James Mattis as defence secretary. He did not elaborate on the vetting measures. But in a TV...

The Mexican government said Friday that President Enrique Pena Nieto and Donald Trump had agreed to stop making public statements about the US leader's border wall plan and will seek to resolve differences as part of bilateral talks. The two leaders had a "constructive and productive"...

The Associated Press has learned that Austria has shut its door to about 300 non-Muslim Iranians hoping to use the country as a way station before establishing new homes in the U.S. The action is an early ripple effect of President Donald Trump's effort to clamp down on U.S. refugee...

New U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley arrived at the United Nations Friday announcing a new way the U.S. does business: The Trump administration's goal is to show U.S. strength, speak out, and defend its allies - and as for countries opposing America, "We're taking names." The former South...

Moroccan authorities said Friday they had arrested seven suspected militants linked to ISIS and seized weapons and explosive belts. A statement from the interior ministry said the group had ties with commanders of the Sunni Islamist group in Syria, Iraq and Libya and had set up a hideout in...

Afghanistan has announced fresh initiatives to bring more women into the army, weeks after the country's first female pilot sparked a national debate on insecurity and women's rights by seeking asylum in the US. The defence ministry wants to boost the proportion of women in the army to 10...

The lower house of the Russian parliament has given final approval to a bill decriminalizing some forms of domestic violence. The State Duma voted 380-3 Friday to eliminate criminal liability for battery on family members that doesn't cause bodily harm, making it punishable by a fine or a...

U.N.-hosted negotiations on the Syrian conflict planned for Feb. 8 in Geneva have been postponed until the end of that month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. "The date of Feb. 8 has been put back until the end of next month," Lavrov told a meeting with Syrian opposition...

Nobel laureates and other writers have issued a message of solidarity to Turkish colleagues who have been jailed as part of what they call a "heavy-handed" crackdown against free expression. Close to 150 writers and journalists are in prison in Turkey, several jailed as the government...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to talk by telephone this Saturday, the Kremlin said, their first conversation since Trump took office. The phone call will be a crucial first step towards what the Kremlin and the White House hope will be a thaw...

President Donald Trump's push to create safe zones in Syria could force him to make some risky decisions about how far to go to protect refugees, including shooting down Syrian or Russian aircraft or committing thousands of U.S. troops, experts said. Trump said on Wednesday he "will...

A man has been charged with hate crimes Thursday after attacking a Muslim airline employee at John F. Kennedy International Airport while invoking President Donald Trump’s name, said local officials. According to a statement from Queens County District Attorney’s Office, Robin Rhodes, from...