Hong Kong authorities granted protesters permission to march this weekend, organizers said on Thursday, giving the green light to a rally seen as a gauge of the pro-democracy movement’s support following its sweeping victory in local elections. The Civil Human Right Front, the group that...

A US sailor fatally shot two people and wounded a third at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii on Wednesday before taking his own life, a senior Navy officer said. The base was locked down for more than an hour after the shooting, according to a statement issued by the facility, while...

Firefighters were Thursday battling several blazes ringing Sydney, leaving Australia's most populous city blanketed by smoke that is expected to linger for days. Bushfires have killed at least four people and destroyed more than 400 homes since the start of November. Fires are still burning...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A car bomb rocked the border town of Ras al-Ayn in northeastern Syria, leaving two civilians dead, the Turkish National Defense Ministry said Wednesday, accusing the Kurdish YPG militias of carrying such attack.   The ministry said on Twitter. "The enemy of...