U.S. senators made a new try at ending a partial month-long government shutdown through a temporary funding bill on Thursday, but President Donald Trump demanded a "down payment" for a border wall that Democrats reject. After the Republican-led Senate failed to advance two measures to...

A Turkish court on Friday ordered the supervised release of a detained lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) who is seriously ill as a result of her 11-week hunger strike. Leyla Guven, 55, launched a hunger strike on November 8 in protest at the prison conditions for...

In the wake of demonstrations and unrest in Venezuela, at least 268 protesters have been arrested across the country since Monday, according to local media reports on Thursday. Admiral William Serantes Pinto, commander of the Eastern Integral Defense Strategic Region (Redior), said the...

Political leaders in both Greece and Germany came out in support for Venezuela's elected leader late Thursday against a parliamentary leader's claim to be “interim president”. In Greece, the ruling party weighed squarely in on the side of President Nicolas Maduro. “SYRIZA...