Heavily armed police were in a standoff Monday with a disgruntled former security guard who took at least 30 people hostage in a Philippines shopping mall. Workers and customers streamed out of the V-Mall shopping centre in Manila early Monday after gunshots rang out and armed officers...

Lebanon’s banking lobby made a last-ditch appeal to the government to avoid a debt default and instead offer a swap into new notes for all bondholders. In the clutches of its worst financial crisis in decades, Lebanon is running out of time to decide how to handle a debt burden that...

A resounding victory in South Carolina has thrust Joe Biden back into the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but that could all change in two days when voters go to the polls in 14 "Super Tuesday" states. With 48 percent of the vote in South Carolina, the former vice president...

  The Iranian media outlets said on Sunday that 21 Shiite fighters have been killed in Turkish drone strikes last Friday.  The death toll included 18 fighters with the Pakistani Zainabiyoun Brigade and three with the Afghan Fatemiyoun Brigade, key pro-Iran...