Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said U.S. federal attorneys took aim at him in their prosecution of a Turkish gold trader accused of helping to violate sanctions against Iran, Turkish media reported on Sunday. U.S. authorities arrested Reza Zarrab, a dual Turkish-Iranian national who has...

Around 237,000 residents in central China are suffering drinking water shortages following a weeks-long “severe” drought that has damaged 123,000 hectares of crops in Hubei province. The state-run China Daily reported Sunday that the scarcity and damage came after Hubei received an...

A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook some southern Philippines provinces early Saturday, but no casualties or damage were reported. The director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) told local radio station dzBB no damage was expected since the epicenter of...

Warplanes mounted a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Saturday, rebel sources, a rescue worker and a war monitor reported, pressing a major offensive by the Russian-backed Syrian military. Speaking to Reuters from Aleppo, Ammar al Selmo, the head of Civil Defence in...