The American sanctions imposed on Iran violate the United Nations charter and international law, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told a conference in Qatar on Saturday. ‘’Malaysia does not support the reimposition of the unilateral sanctions by the US against Iran,’’ he told the...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam visited Beijing Saturday for her first trip to the Chinese capital since her government was handed a crushing defeat in local elections last month, prompting speculation about changes to her leadership team. During a four-day visit, Lam is due to discuss the...

From buying an Irish navy boat re-registered as a "pleasure yacht" to enlisting a Canadian firm to recruit Sudanese fighters, Libya's warring parties are running rings around a UN arms embargo. That's the upshot of a report published this week by UN experts, who accuse an array of firms and...

A Sudanese court Saturday convicted former president Omar al-Bashir on charges of corruption and illicit possession of foreign currency and sentenced him to two years of detention in a reform facility. The presiding judge said Bashir, 75, who was ousted in April following months of street...

North Korea has conducted another "crucial test" at its Sohae satellite launch site, state media reported Saturday, as nuclear negotiations between Pyongyang and Washington remain stalled with a deadline approaching. The announcement comes just a day before US Special Envoy on North Korea...

Washington and London issued travel warnings for northeast India as opponents of a new citizenship law geared up for more protests Saturday, following days of clashes that saw two people killed and dozens injured. Many in the far-flung, resource-rich region fear the new legislation will...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson called on Britons to put years of bitter divisions over the country's EU membership behind them as he vowed to use his resounding election victory to finally deliver Brexit next month. Johnson's ruling Conservatives won their best result for three decades on...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said the Syrian regime and allied Russia have been responsibl the bombing of an IDP camp and the killing of 11 Syrian children.    The report further reveals that the attack caused the displacement of approximately 80 percent...

A crew member who went missing during a fire on Russia's only aircraft carrier was found dead Friday, raising the death toll from the blaze to two, the nation's military officials said Friday. The fire on the Admiral Kuznetsov broke out during welding work at a shipyard in the Arctic...

Daesh/ISIS affiliate group in West Africa claimed responsibility for an attack on a military camp in Niger that left 71 dead, local media reported late Thursday. "The Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP) has claimed responsibility for the deadly raid on the Inates military base in...

The UN Refugee Agency appealed Friday for intensified support for some 4.6 million globally displaced Afghans and their host communities, ahead of next week's first-ever Global Refugee Forum in Geneva.  UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch made the call at a UN briefing in Geneva, noting that...

Germany, France and Italy on Friday urged conflict parties in Libya to halt military operations and return to political negotiations. Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte issued a joint statement after their meeting in Brussels...

Thousands of protesters have gathered on the streets of Algeria's capital after former Prime Minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune was declared the winner of Algeria's presidential election. Tebboune - who also served as housing minister under Abdelaziz Bouteflika - the former president forced to...

US lawmakers took the grave step Friday of approving two charges against Donald Trump, setting up a full House of Representatives vote to impeach the president for abusing his powers and obstructing Congress. Democrats and Republicans in the House Judiciary Committee voted along strict...

Germany’s refugee housing restriction policy is once again at the center of controversy. Passed in 2016, the Asylum Act was an attempt by the German government to regulate the distribution of refugees to German cities and states fairly and in a manner adapted to their respective capacities....

A former Turkish prime minister who has launched a splinter party to rival President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged on Friday a return to a parliamentary democracy and to expand rights and freedoms. Ahmet Davutoglu made the commitment a day after he formally established the breakaway "The...

More than 1,000 ancient relics and mosaics were saved from Islamic State group militants when staff at the museum of the Syrian city of Raqqa managed to hide them underground and in storehouses, Syrian officials and experts said Thursday. The Syrian Kurdish-led administration in...

Expectations for a U.S.-Chinese trade truce rose Friday, though Beijing accused Washington of unfairly attacking its economy and said a settlement to their costly, 17-month-old conflict must be “mutually beneficial.” A senior Trump administration official said an announcement regarding...

The House Judiciary Committee is expected to approve articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump on Friday after abruptly shutting down a 14-hour session late Thursday following a marathon slog through Republican amendments aimed at killing the charges. Approval of the two...

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union next month. With 649...