Soldiers from Niger and Chad have killed 38 Boko Haram fighters during operations that followed attacks by the Nigerian Islamist group on two border towns in southeastern Niger earlier this week, Niger's army said on Saturday. Two soldiers from the bilateral force were lightly wounded in the...

French investigators who found trace levels of the explosive material TNT on debris of an EgyptAir plane that crashed in May were prevented from further examining it, Le Figaro reported on Friday, a charge Egyptian officials denied. The origin of the traces remains unclear and Egyptian...

South Korea's Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd, whose collapse has disrupted global trade, is considering a restructuring plan to sell more than half its ships, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. However, liquidation remained the most likely outcome for...

The State Department on Friday refused to address the existence of Israeli nuclear weapons that were disclosed in emails by former Secretary of State Colin Powell. In a message regarding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress last year, Powell wrote that Iran...

One of the “most senior leaders” Daesh leaders was killed earlier this month in Syria, the U.S. said Friday. “On Sept. 7, coalition forces conducted a precision strike near Raqqah, Syria, that targeted and killed ‘Dr. Wa'il’, also known as Wa'il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad,” Pentagon...

The Associated Press, Vice Media and Gannett filed a lawsuit Friday against the FBI to force it to reveal the methods it used to breach an iPhone that belonged to an alleged U.S. terror suspect. The news organizations claim the FBI does not have a right to conceal its methods about how it...

Amnesty International has taken Australia’s immigration minister to task over his statement that the processing of asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru -- currently under a cloud due to allegations of abuse, self-harm and suicide -- will “continue for decades”. “Dragging out for...

The world's strongest storm this year killed at last 10 people in China when it hit the southeast coast, the government said on Friday, as rescuers scoured flooded streets and work crews struggled to restore power to more than a million homes. Typhoon Meranti had largely dissipated by Friday...

A team investigating missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will begin probing whether the commercial aircraft was deliberately ditched or experienced an uncontrolled fall while carrying 239 people, according to Malaysia's transport minister. Liow Tiong Lai told Anadolu Agency on Friday that...

Resin trees in supposedly protected forest areas are being felled at an “alarming” rate, a leading Cambodian activist has said, alleging that a U.S.-run protection program has failed to prevent such logging. Ouch Leng, the chairman of Cambodia Human Rights Task Forces, won this year’s...

A phantom account scandal at Wells Fargo & Co has put the U.S. bank's disclosure policies under a harsh spotlight. Despite press reports that a federal regulator and the Los Angeles prosecutor were investigating sales practices at retail branches of the San Francisco-based lender, the...

A man was shot Thursday by New York City police (NYPD) after he attacked and maimed an off-duty officer with an 11-inch meat cleaver, law enforcement officials said. Akram Joudeh, 32, of Queens, was upset his car was immobilized in Midtown Manhattan with a wheel clamp -- a boot -- due to...

Hillary Clinton got back on the campaign trail on Thursday after taking three days off for pneumonia, and the Democratic presidential candidate faced a more challenging political landscape, with Republican rival Donald Trump rising in opinion polls. Senior Clinton aides said they always...

Apple Inc and other U.S. multinationals will face new curbs on tax loopholes under a rule imposed by Washington on Thursday, part of a scramble among governments worldwide to bolster their corporate tax bases. Acting shortly after a European Union grab for billions of dollars in back taxes...

Japan will step up its activity in the contested South China Sea through joint training patrols with the United States and bilateral and multilateral exercises with regional navies, Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said on Thursday. Inada said in a speech at Washington's Center for...

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "ethnic cleansing" video as an "unacceptable and outrageous" portrayal of people who oppose Israeli settlements in the West Bank, home to more than 2.7 million Palestinians. Ban told the...

U.S. retail sales fell more than expected in August amid weak purchases of automobiles and a range of other goods, pointing to cooling domestic demand that further diminishes expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate increase next week. Other data on Thursday showed the labor market...

Turkey and Russia’s top generals met in Ankara on Thursday, a Turkish military source said. Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar and Gen. Valery Gerasimov held a closed-door meeting following a ceremony at the General Staff Headquarters in Ankara, the source said on condition of anonymity...

Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on Wednesday agreed to a 48-hour extension for a truce in Syria that began Monday, the U.S. said. The top diplomats agreed the seven-day cessation of hostilities that was brokered Friday is "worth extending" for an...

Five people are confirmed dead and another ten are missing in Vietnam after a tropical storm powering through Southeast Asia battered the country's central coastline. The National Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Control said in a statement Thursday that after making landfall...