In the modern era of presidential politics, no candidate has ever won the popular vote by more than Hillary Clinton did this year, yet still managed to lose the Electoral College. In that sense, 2016 was a historic split: Donald Trump won the presidency by as much as 74 electoral votes...

The United Nations on Tuesday announced a resumption of aid to some 85,000 Syrian refugees stranded on Jordan's border with war-torn Syria in what Amman has declared a military zone. The kingdom closed the border on June 21, halting aid deliveries to a makeshift camp, after a bombing claimed...

All along the winding Rio Grande, the people who live in this bustling, fertile region where the U.S. border meets the Gulf of Mexico never quite understood how Donald Trump's great wall could ever be much more than campaign rhetoric. Erecting a concrete barrier across the entire 1,954-mile...

Britain should stay as closely connected to Europe's common market as it can after it leaves the European Union, the trade minister of EU outsider Norway said Tuesday. "Britain is perhaps our most important economic partner. We want the future cooperation and trade conditions to be as good...

As a senator, Jeff Sessions became Congress' leading advocate not only for a cracking down on illegal immigration, but also for slowing all immigration, increasing mass deportations and scrutinizing more strictly those entering the U.S. As attorney general, he'd be well positioned to turn those...

Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two Russian servicemen on the annexed Crimea peninsula, but Kiev said it had merely detained two Ukrainian army deserters. In a statement carried late Monday by local news agencies, the Russian defence ministry said servicemen Maxim Odintsov and...

The United States on Monday named a dozen Syrian generals and officers accused of leading attacks on civilian targets in the five-year war and warned they would one day face justice. US Ambassador Samantha Power said the military commanders were involved in "killing and injuring civilians"...

Nearly one million people are living under siege in Syria, the UN aid chief said Monday, announcing revised figures. The new figure of 974,080 people marks a dramatic increase from 486,700 Syrians living in besieged areas just six months ago, Stephen O'Brien told the Security Council....

Deutsche Bank's (DBKGn.DE) supervisory board unanimously nominated chairman Paul Achleitner for a second term, a spokesman of Germany's biggest lender confirmed on Monday. "It is true that Deutsche Bank's supervisory board has unanimously nominated Paul Achleitner for reelection at the...

Rescuers finished searching the last of 14 mangled train carriages that derailed in northern India, killing at least 133 people and leaving more than 200 injured, officials said Monday. The passenger train was about midway through a 27-hour journey between the cities of Indore and Patna when...

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that chaos in Syria could persist for "quite some time" and that Russian and Iranian support for President Bashar al-Assad's air campaign had emboldened the Syrian leader's crackdown on rebels. "I am not optimistic about the short-term prospects in...

A spate of vandalism and other threats has occurred this year at a soup kitchen for deported migrants in Nogales, Mexico, which borders Arizona. The leader of the Kino Border Initiative-run center says the incidents likely are tied to the shelter's work helping migrants report crimes....

U.S. President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke for about four minutes on Sunday at the APEC summit about Syria and Ukraine, a White House official said. "The president urged President Putin to uphold Russia's commitments under the Minsk agreements, underscoring...

The United Nations warned Sunday that time was "running out" for efforts to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe in Syria's war-battered Aleppo, as fresh fighting there killed at least eight schoolchildren. US President Barack Obama urged greater efforts to end the violence when he met Russian...

The rise of nationalism in rich countries poses a worrying challenge to the tide of migrants fleeing wars, the U.N. refugee chief said on Sunday, urging international cooperation to manage the flows pragmatically "rather than building walls". U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo...

The U.N.'s special envoy to Syria has arrived in Damascus to meet with Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem amid an intensified government campaign in Aleppo that has left all hospitals in the city's opposition-held districts out of service. U.N. Envoy Staffan De Mistura and al-Moallem are...

(Daily Sabah)- South Korean prosecutors are now formally treating President Park Geun-hye as a suspect in a snowballing corruption scandal that has dragged her approval rating down to a record-low five percent and prompted weeks of mass protests. Park's status shifted Sunday when prosecutors...

An Indian express train derailed early Sunday, killing over 100 people in one of the country's worst rail disasters in years, police said, as emergency workers searched the mangled wreckage for survivors. Shocked passengers recounted being woken by a violent thud, and told of their desperate...

President-elect Donald Trump and 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney set aside their long-simmering rivalry on Saturday and had talks likely to feed speculation that Romney could be a candidate to be Trump's secretary of state. Trump and Romney emerged from their meeting after...

France president Francois Hollande warned Donald Trump on Saturday that U.S. commitments to reducing climate change and global warming are "irreversible". U.S. president-elect Trump has previously claimed climate change is a "hoax" and promised to cancel the hard-won Paris climate agreement...