One person died and at least 34 were injured on Thursday when a truck and an express train with 500 people aboard collided in Japan’s second-largest city of Yokohama, setting the truck on fire and derailing half the train. The accident, which halted services on a busy rail link to the...

A suicide bomber blew himself up on Thursday in the center of Kabul, the Afghan capital, government officials said, and the blast shook windows and doors in an area near embassies and government buildings. Interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi confirmed the explosion, but said the...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government abandoned attempts in the upper house of parliament to block a law aimed at stopping the country from leaving the European Union without a deal. The move paved the way for Johnson being required to ask the EU for a three-month extension to...

The youngest son of late Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi died of an alleged heart attack Wednesday at a hospital in Cairo. A Morsi family sourced confirmed 24-year-old Abdullah Morsi’s death to Anadolu Agency without giving further details. Egyptian Health Ministry has yet to comment...

Israel's prime minister says now is the time to ratchet up pressure on Iran and not the time for talks, as the Islamic Republic appears poised to move further away from its commitments under the nuclear deal with world powers. Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran's continued violations of the deal,...

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Thursday that China "understands, respects and supports" her government's move to formally withdraw an extradition bill, part of measures she hoped would help the city "move forward" from months of unrest. In a press conference, Lam was repeatedly questioned...

Beijing said Thursday US and Chinese trade negotiators will resume talks in Washington in early October after new punitive tariffs raised fears of a breakdown in the protracted negotiations. The talks, which were originally supposed to take place this month, come after new two-way tariffs...

U.S. President Donald Trump Wednesday left the door open to a possible meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the upcoming U.N. General Assembly in New York. Asked about the possibility of meeting the Iranian leader at the United Nations, Trump told White House reporters anything...

Algeria's army chief insisted Wednesday that a vote to elect a successor to ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika be delayed no longer, repeating his demand that polls be held before year-end. "I want to insist one more time – the situation cannot tolerate more delay," General Ahmed Gaid...

UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet says her office has tallied more than 1,000 civilian deaths in northern Syria over the last four months, the majority of them due to air strikes and ground attacks by President Bashar al-Assad‘s forces and their allies. Bachelet, the United Nations...

Thousands of children risk missing out on their education in northwestern Syria after a months-long regime assault on Idlib that has closed dozens of schools, a charity said. A fragile ceasefire has held in the Idlib region since Saturday, following four months of air strikes that have...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 51 troops from the coastal regime killed in August mostly by rebels jihadist Tahrir al-Sham group in northwestern Syria, pro-regime activists said. The death toll included 38 troops from Tartus province and 13 from Latakia, Bashar am-Assad's hometown....

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates sent their top diplomats to Pakistan Wednesday to help Islamabad defuse tensions with India over the disputed Kashmir region. Anti-India sentiment has grown in Pakistan since New Delhi moved to strip the Indian-administered portion of Kashmir of its...

U.S. troops and an allied Syrian militia conducted a joint patrol Wednesday in a town on the border with Turkey, a Kurdish news agency and a Syria war monitor reported. The move appeared to be part of an agreement to set up a safe zone along Syria's northeast border. Turkey sees the Syrian...

The UN special envoy to Libya warned Wednesday that without action by the Security Council, the country's war could escalate if outside patrons step up support for the warring sides. "Many Libyans feel abandoned by part of the international community and exploited by others," Ghassan Salame...

Yemen's government officials have started indirect talks with United Arab Emirates-backed southern separatists in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah to end fighting in Aden and other southern provinces, a Yemeni official said Wednesday. A senior Emirati official said earlier that the Gulf...

The Afghan government has concerns about the draft peace agreement reached between U.S. and Taliban negotiators and wants further clarification, President Ashraf Ghani’s main spokesman said on Wednesday. The deal, which would see around 5,000 U.S. troops withdrawn and five bases closed in...

 Debris extended for miles and floods covered much of the Bahamas in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, in what the archipelago’s prime minister called one of the worst disasters to ever strike the island nation. Emergency workers struggled to reach victims as search and rescue operations...

A former U.S. Justice Department official who now represents Huawei Technologies is expected in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday to defend his right to represent the Chinese company against U.S. charges of bank fraud and sanctions violations. U.S. prosecutors claim lead Huawei lawyer...

Walmart announced Tuesday it would end handgun sales and discontinue sales of certain types of ammunition.  In an email to employees, Chief Executive Doug McMillon said the retail giant would stop sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition such as 223-caliber and 5.56-caliber. "We know...