It wasn't coarse language that got Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte attention this time; it was his crooning. He and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak performed karaoke at a state dinner in Malaysia on Thursday. Duterte sang Bette Midler's "Wind Beneath My Wings" while Najib...

The United States is continuing to reinforce its military forces in Europe as planned, irrespective of President-elect Donald Trump's future intentions, the Pentagon said Thursday. Trump, who will take office in January, raised serious concerns in Europe by promising during his campaign that...

Michelle Obama carried on an awkward White House tradition when she hosted Melania Trump for tea Thursday. It was their first meeting, coming on the heels of the ugliest campaign in recent history. They talked about raising children and took a tour of the White House’s private residence...

(Daily Sabah)- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Thursday he knew who killed Yasser Arafat as he marked the 12th anniversary of the former leader's death but stopped short from giving a name. Speaking in front of thousands, Abbas said "you ask me who killed him, I know -- but my...

Police put up metal security fences around U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's new Washington hotel on Thursday and a line of concrete blocks shielded the front of New York's Trump Tower as cities around the country braced for a second day of protests over his election. A day after thousands...

Some of the most controversial proposals Donald Trump made while running for U.S. president were gone from his campaign website by Thursday, including his call to ban Muslims from entering the country and his promise to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement. The link to his Dec. 7 proposal...

Cyprus police rescued 123 migrants believed to be Syrians who were left adrift off the island's northwest coast by a boatman who made off on a jet ski, officials said Thursday. The 42 children, 19 women and 62 men were all in good health, including a woman who had given birth at sea and was...

Syria's main opposition group has urged US president-elect Donald Trump to protect civilians and help end the bloodshed in the country, devastated by five years of war. Riad Hijab, head of the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC), said Syrian civilians were in urgent need of...

(Economist)- IT IS hard to think of a president-elect less versed in the workings of the world than Donald Trump; or of one more willing to upturn the global order that America has shaped in the seven decades since the end of the second world war. He has so far described his foreign policy in...

Liam Neeson got a little break from being famous. Sitting on the floor of a community center courtyard with two dozen local teens, he listened attentively as young Syrian refugees — who had no idea that he's a Hollywood star — talked about the struggles of exile. A 15-year-old girl said she...

Oil prices reversed early losses to push higher on Thursday as markets recovered from their initial shock at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's surprise victory, although traders said that crude fundamentals remained weak. Trump's election initially stunned markets and led Ian Bremmer,...

A bond hearing is set for an Ohio man accused of trying to travel to Libya to join ISIS. A federal prosecutor in Columbus says Aaron Daniels wired $250 to an ISIS operative in January and told an undercover informant about his interest in traveling overseas to commit extremist acts....

Turkey on Monday warned the United States not to allow demographic changes in the Syrian city of Raqqa after Kurdish-Arab forces launched a US-backed operation to capture the Islamic State (IS) bastion. Turkish forces are conspicuously absent from the operation, even though they are present...

Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election sent shockwaves through industries that rely on open trade, from airlines to cars and IT outsourcing, even though many executives remain unsure what his protectionist rhetoric will mean in practice. Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump has...

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday NATO submarines had been tracking its battle group in the Mediterranean and that it had chased away a Dutch submarine which had been dangerously maneuvering nearby, the Interfax news agency reported. Moscow has assembled a sizable battle group...

(Middle East Eye)- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was the first leader from the Arab world to congratulate Donald Trump on Wednesday and said he hoped the US president-elect would "pump new life" into Egyptian-American relations. A statement from the Egyptian presidency emphasised...

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Donald Trump on his election as US president on Wednesday and called him "a true friend of the state of Israel." "President-elect Trump is a true friend of the state of Israel, and I look forward to working with him to advance security,...

Canada's main immigration website appeared to crash and New Zealand reported increased traffic to its website for residency visas from U.S. nationals in the hours before Donald Trump surged to victory in the U.S. presidential election. Canada's main immigration website appeared to suffer...

Back in May, when Donald's Trump's stunning U.S. presidential election victory seemed the remotest of possibilities, a senior European official took to Twitter before a G7 summit in Tokyo to warn of a "horror scenario". Imagine, mused Martin Selmayr, the head of European Commission President...

Iran's foreign minister called Wednesday on U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to stick to international agreements following his threats during the election campaign to tear up a nuclear deal with Tehran. "Every U.S. president has to understand the realities of today's world. The most...