U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday said he could not comment on private email chains of his predecessor Hillary Clinton, saying they were being withheld at the request of the U.S. intelligence community. "I can't speak to the specifics of anything with respect to the...

Police cleared a suspicious package on Tuesday that had led to the evacuation of a building opposite the United Nations headquarters in New York that houses the U.N. missions of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. "It's all over," said John Miller, New York Police Department deputy commissioner for...

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck early Monday in the Mediterranean between Morocco and Spain, the US Geological Survey said. The shallow quake hit at 4:22 am (0422 GMT) 62 kilometres (39 miles) north of the Moroccan city of Al Hoceima and 164 kilometres east-southeast of Gibraltar, USGS...

Russia and Pakistan plan to carry out joint military exercises later this year, a high-ranking Russian military officer has said. Speaking to reporters in Moscow on Friday, Oleg Salyukov, commander-in-chief of Russia’s ground forces, said the Russian army planned to carry out seven joint...

The United State's main concern with North Korea is its nuclear program, the U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday, adding that American officials are eyeing the Korean peninsula daily. "The biggest worry about North Korea has been – other than its sort of strange and isolated behavior...

A group of militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens as the army hunted for any gunmen still holed up on the campus, officials said. A security official said the death toll could rise to as high...

The U.N. refugee agency says more than 92,000 people made the perilous sea crossing from the Horn of Africa to Yemen last year, one of the highest annual totals of the past decade. The Geneva-based agency says two thirds of the arrivals happened after March 2015, when the conflict in Yemen...

At least six people are feared dead in a suspected Boko Haram suicide attack on a mosque in Cameroon’s Far North Region near the Nigerian border, security and administrative sources told Anadolu Agency on Monday. "A strong explosion occurred in Nguetchewe Mosque, located in the department of...

ISIS Wednesday claimed responsibility for a deadly attack targeting the Pakistani consulate in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. In an Arabic statement released via Twitter, the group said the attack was carried out by three ISIS fighters, two of whom blew themselves up by detonating...

Chinese authorities have formally arrested China's most prominent woman human rights lawyer, accusing her of subverting the state, her lawyer said on Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on activists who have helped people fight for their legal rights. The lawyer, Wang Yu, was taken into custody...

A suspected suicide bomb blast Wednesday killed at least 14 people close to a polio eradication center in Pakistan's western city of Quetta, police said, with most of those killed policemen detailed to guard vaccination workers. At least 12 policemen, one paramilitary officer and one civilian...

Paris police shot dead a man with knife and fake suicide belt, carrying Islamic State flag

North Korea said it successfully tested a powerful nuclear bomb on Wednesday, drawing criticism from world governments even though the United States and weapons experts voiced doubt the device set off by the isolated nation was as advanced as Pyongyang claimed. The underground...

If London-born convert Abu Rumaysah is confirmed as the front man in the latest Islamic State video, then he will be just the latest in a long line of militants to emerge from a banned group the authorities say breeds easy prey for jihadist recruiters. The video, purportedly...

The White House expects that Iran will finish the work it needs to trigger implementation of a landmark nuclear deal with world powers in the coming weeks, White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said on Saturday. Rhodes said Iran still had a number of important...

A suicide bomber attacked a popular restaurant in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, Saturday, killing himself and at least three others, Somali police said. The attacker, dressed in a business suit over a suicide vest, detonated the bomb after entering the Village Restaurant, police...

A French journalist has been forced to leave China after the government said it would not renew her press credentials for the new year in response to a critical report on Beijing's policies in the troubled western region of Xinjiang. The departure of Ursula Gauthier, a reporter for the...

Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 50 people were killed and the death toll could go higher. At least 30 were killed and more...

Eight people died in the greater Dallas area as a storm system brought tornadoes and flooding on Saturday, increasing the death toll from harsh weather in the southern United States this week to 26, according to officials and local media. Authorities in Garland confirmed that...

 Pope Francis offered his full support for U.N. efforts to end the conflicts in Syria and Libya in his Christmas message Friday. "We pray... that the agreement reached in the United Nations may succeed in halting as quickly as possible the clash of arms in Syria and in remedying the...