U.N. chief Antonio Guterres arrived in Iraq Thursday to review the humanitarian situation, calling for protection of civilians to be the "absolute priority" as Iraqi forces battle to retake Mosul. "Just arrived in Iraq to focus on the dire humanitarian situation on the ground. Protection of...

China and the European Union need to show joint leadership on climate change and cannot expect the "same leadership" from the new administration in the United States, European climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said in Beijing Thursday. Canete, speaking to reporters after meeting...

South Korea's disgraced ex-President Park Geun-hye was being questioned Thursday by a court that will decide if she should be arrested over corruption allegations that have already toppled her from power. Live TV footage earlier showed a stern-looking Park entering the Seoul Central District...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Thursday killed a mother and her four children in the western countryside of Raqqa city, local activist told Zaman al-Wasl.  The indiscriminate U.S. strikes have killed about 250 people in March, a scaring death toll as Washington put its...