In the US oil heartland on Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced the signing of two executive orders to accelerate the construction of oil and gas pipelines, dismaying environmentalists. The latest measures are in line with others his administration has taken to ease regulation of the...

A Tajik man who joined Islamic State said many foreigners who enlisted in its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria were jailed or killed for trying to leave. The 28-year-old, who once drove a taxi in Moscow, said he handed himself over to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a...

President Donald Trump called the probe into his campaign's Russia links an attempted "coup" Wednesday, while his attorney general promised to investigate FBI "spying" on the president. More than two weeks after the Mueller probe wrapped up, apparently putting him in the clear, Trump is far...

Indians turned out in big numbers to vote in the first phase of a mammoth general election on Thursday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a second term after campaigning on his national security record amid tensions with rival Pakistan. Reuters reporters saw long queues outside many...