The chief negotiators of Britain and the European Union meet on Friday for intensive negotiations on a last-minute trade deal that would stave off a tumultuous finale to the five-year Brexit crisis. The United Kingdom left the EU in January but the two sides are trying to clinch a deal that...

A Syrian suspected of killing a tourist in the German city of Dresden early this month had been classified as a radical Islamist and was under observation on the day of the attack, security officials said on Thursday. The 20-year-old man had been categorised in 2017 as likely to pose a...

Asked about her dreams for the future, nine-year-old Salam al-Munir responds solemnly: "For the war to end and to go back to the innocence of my childhood, like the rest of the world's children". Salam returned to her village of al-Nayrab in the eastern Idlib province last week for the first...

The United States and China dealt with the spread of the devastating coronavirus pandemic in vastly different ways, and that split is reshaping the global battle between the world's two leading economies. About 11 months after the Wuhan outbreak, China's official GDP numbers this week show...