The US government commission on religious freedom on Friday urged action against ally Saudi Arabia after its mass execution of 37 people, most of them Shiite Muslims. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, whose members are appointed by the president and lawmakers across...

The U.S. on Friday imposed sanctions on Venezuela's Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza. Arreaza has also served as the country's vice minister for the ministry for science, technology, and intermediate industries, executive vice president, and minister of the ecological mining development....

Yemeni authorities have rounded up about 3,000 irregular migrants, predominantly Ethiopians, in the south of the country, "creating an acute humanitarian situation," the U.N. migration agency said Friday. "IOM is deeply concerned about the conditions in which the migrants are being held and...

France's finance minister promised Friday that some 15 million households would benefit from tax cuts announced by President Emmanuel Macron, but the move did little to calm tempers among "yellow vest" protesters. In a major address on Thursday night, the French leader promised a new round...