Standing in the gutted ruins of her bar destroyed by Beirut's massive port blast, Lebanese entrepreneur Gizelle Hassoun said she hopes crowdfunding can help save her business from the rubble. "This place was my life," the 46-year-old said, standing on top of piles of broken shutters and...

North Korean soldiers shot dead a suspected South Korean defector at sea and burned his body as a coronavirus precaution after he was interrogated in the water over several hours, Seoul military officials said Thursday. It is the first killing of a Southern citizen by North Korean forces...

President Donald Trump again declined to commit to a peaceful transfer of power if he loses the Nov. 3 presidential election. "We’re going to have to see what happens," Trump said Wednesday at a news conference, responding to a question about whether he’d commit to a peaceful transfer...

Iraqi Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul Jabbar expects to reach an agreement soon with the OPEC group over increasing Iraq's crude oil exports, state news agency INA cited him as saying Thursday. OPEC's second-biggest producer, Iraq has failed in the past to fully comply with OPEC oil output...