Deaths from a new virus rose to 490 in mainland China on Wednesday while new cases on a Japanese cruise ship, in Hong Kong and in other places showed the increasing spread of the outbreak and renewed attention toward containing it. Ten people from the cruise ship tested positive and were...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday renewed his vow to negotiate a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, saying he had no desire to kill "hundreds of thousands" in unending fighting. In one of his few foreign-policy points in a highly partisan State of the Union address to Congress, Trump...

Iran will be committed to its pledges if the members of the nuclear agreement fulfill their obligations, the country's president on Tuesday stressed during a meeting in the capital Tehran with the EU foreign policy chief. Hassan Rouhani said in his meeting meeting with Josep Borrell that...

French police on Tuesday cleared the last migrant tent camp in northeast Paris, moving 427 people to shelters as part of a plan to take migrants off the streets. The migrants, who included four women, were living in 266 tents and makeshift shelters in a canal-side camp "strewn with waste...