A gunman wearing a "Star Wars" T-shirt opened fire at a baggage carousel at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Friday, killing five people before being taken into custody, officials and witnesses said. Five people died and eight were wounded in the incident, Broward County...

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered "an influence campaign" in 2016 aimed at the U.S. presidential election with the goal of undermining the democratic process and denigrating Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, a new, declassified intelligence report said on Friday. "We further assess...

Police said “multiple people” were killed in a shooting Friday afternoon at the Fort Lauderdale international airport that also sent eight people to the hospital. The suspected shooter is in custody, according to a spokeswoman for the Broward County Sheriff’s Department, which was on scene...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday welcomed the U.S. House of Representatives' condemnation of a U.N. reprimand of Israel's settlements in occupied Palestinian territories. "After the outrageous anti-Israel resolution at the U.N., the U.S. House of Representatives voted...

Ships began unloading U.S. tanks, self-propelled howitzers and hundreds of other fighting vehicles Friday in the northern German port of Bremerhaven, to be moved into Eastern Europe to bolster NATO's deterrence against possible Russian aggression. Some 3,500 troops from the 4th Infantry...

President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday that he hoped Moscow, a rival of the Philippine's traditional ally the United States, would become his country's ally and protector as he toured one of the two Russian warships on a four-day visit to Manila. Duterte's remarks came a day after Russia's...

Russia has begun a drawdown of its military forces in Syria, news agencies quoted the head of the Russian General Staff as saying Friday. "In accordance with the decision of the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, (President) Vladimir Putin, the Russian...

Japan recalled its ambassador to South Korea Friday to protest the placing of a statue symbolizing victims of Japanese wartime sex slavery outside its consulate in the city of Busan last month. In a move likely to reignite a feud over the so-called "comfort women", Japan's chief government...

The United States is encouraging Syria peace talks being prepared later this month in the Kazakh capital Astana and hopes they could produce a step toward peace, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday. "We're encouraging a meeting in Astana. We hope that could produce a step...

Three inmates from the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay arrived in Saudi Arabia Thursday, after the White House rejected President-elect Donald Trump's demand for a freeze on transfers. An AFP reporter saw the three prisoners after they landed at a terminal normally reserved for royals...

Morocco has ordered the closure of schools it says are linked to a U.S.-based Islamic preacher that Turkey blames for a failed coup last year, the interior ministry said. "Investigations on the establishments of the Mohamed Al-Fatih group, linked to Turkish national Fethullah Gulen, showed...

Peace talks being prepared later this month in the Kazakh capital of Astana should aim to consolidate Syria's cease-fire and pave the way for wider U.N.-backed negotiations in February, the U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said Thursday. Turkey and Russia brokered the Dec. 30 cessation...

French authorities have stepped up their investigation into accusations that members of the far right National Front tricked the European Parliament out of several hundred thousand euros paid to legislative aides. Party members are accused of using assistants for political activity even...

Apple has removed the New York Times from its China app store, the tech giant said, after authorities told the company the app breached regulations. The US newspaper said both its English- and Chinese-language apps were pulled late last month, blocking one of the few remaining channels for...

Militias fighting alongside Iraqi troops against ISIS are committing war crimes using weapons provided to the Iraqi military by the United States, Europe, Russia and Iran, Amnesty International said Thursday. The rights group said that predominantly Shi'ite Muslim militias, known collective...

The United States has "much work to be done" to reform the criminal justice system and humanize the prison system, President Barack Obama said Thursday in a Harvard Law Review article. In the 56-page article, the president defends his government's actions during his eight-year term on a...

The United States will transfer four detainees to Saudi Arabia from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in the next 24 hours, U.S. officials said Wednesday, in President Barack Obama's final push to shrink the inmate population there despite pressure from the president-elect to halt such...

The impeachment trial of South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye got under way Thursday, with her lawyers arguing there is no evidence to back the corruption allegations that threaten to force her from office. Parliament voted to impeach Park last month over an influence-peddling scandal that...

New United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday, and the two had "a very positive discussion on U.S./U.N. relations," said a U.N. spokesman, a week after Trump slammed the world body on Twitter. Guterres, a former Portuguese...

President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday again cast doubt on U.S. intelligence findings that Russia hacked the presidential election, repeating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's assertion that leaked information damaging to Democrats did not come from Moscow. "Julian Assange said 'a 14 year...