Iraqi forces battled Islamic State militants in their stronghold of Mosul on Wednesday and took control of the last major road leading west from the city, before bomb blasts ripped through a wedding party near Tikrit, killing more than 20 people. The blasts in the village of Hajjaj, reported...

China has granted preliminary approval for 38 trademarks linked to Donald Trump, documents on China's state trademark office show, giving the U.S. President and his family protection were they to develop the "Trump" brand in the market. The trademarks - which in theory cover a wide sweep of...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has cancelled a planned rally in Rotterdam, where he had been due to campaign in favor of a proposed new Turkish constitution that gives more powers to the country's president, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Wednesday. The news agency quoted from...

A group of feminist activists was detained in Moscow Wednesday, International Women's Day, after protesting by the Kremlin walls with a banner reading "Men have been in power 200 years, down with them!" OVD Info, a website that monitors detentions of activists, wrote that seven people were...