At least eight people were wounded by gunshots near a Khartoum sit-in Wednesday, a spokesman for Sudan's protest movement and a witness said, ahead of crucial talks on civilian rule. "Eight wounded from live bullets so far," Amjad Farid, a spokesman for the umbrella protest group the...

North Korea said on Tuesday the seizure of one of its cargo ships by the United States was an illegal act that violated the spirit of a summit between the two countries’ leaders, and demanded the return of the vessel without delay. The North’s foreign ministry said in a statement that...

Sri Lanka blocked access to Facebook and WhatsApp on Monday after a posting sparked anti-Muslim riots across several towns in the latest fallout from the Easter Sunday suicide attacks. Christian groups attacked Muslim-owned shops in the northwestern town of Chilaw on Sunday in anger at a...

Israel reopened Sunday its crossings with the blockaded Gaza Strip after closing them during a deadly escalation earlier this month, an official said, as a fragile truce held. Both the Erez crossing for people and Kerem Shalom crossing for goods were open and operating, a spokeswoman for...