As both sides have brought new demands to closed-door meetings, the U.S. and the Taliban are struggling to find ways to resume peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan, say both officials and local analysts. A 12-member delegation of the Afghan Taliban political office in Doha arrived in...

An emotional Naomi Osaka said that she had made up for the disappointment of the US Open after beating world number one Ashleigh Barty in the China Open final Sunday. The 21-year-old Japanese has had a turbulent year, winning the Australian Open but then suffering a dip in form which...

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar is seeking a meeting with his British counterpart Boris Johnson next week, stressing on Saturday that time was tight for London to go further with the fresh Brexit proposals it presented this week. With less than a month until its scheduled exit, Johnson is...

EU powers France, Germany and Italy, along with smaller member Malta, will on Tuesday seek to rally the rest of the European bloc to a joint scheme they have come up with to distribute migrants saved at sea. But it was unclear, ahead of the meeting of EU interior ministers in Luxembourg,...