The African Union envoy to Sudan said Saturday the pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council have finalized a power-sharing agreement. Mohammad al-Hassan Lebatt told reporters that the two sides "fully agreed" on a constitutional declaration outlining the division of power for...

Murdered children are no longer news. International media coverage of the war in Afghanistan, where child deaths reached an all-time high last year, is sporadic at best. In Yemen it is estimated that at least 85,000 under-fives have died of starvation since 2015, a figure that numbs the mind....

 South Korea is exploring all options in a bitter trade row with Japan, including scrapping an intelligence sharing pact, but wants a cooling off period with Tokyo, a senior South Korean official said on Saturday. The trade row escalated on Friday when Japan removed South Korea from a...

On Aug. 2 following a months-long war of words between Moscow and Washington, the U.S. formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The fate of the last "pillar", the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START Treaty), is now in question as the U.S. links it to the...

Civilian casualty rates across Afghanistan jumped back to record levels last month, following a dip earlier in the year, the UN said Saturday. According to the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, more than 1,500 civilians were killed or wounded in the Afghan conflict in July, the highest...

 Apple Inc could see a hit to its annual earnings from U.S. President Donald Trump’s newly proposed 10% tariff on Chinese imports from Sept. 1, analysts from Bank of America Merrill Lynch said on Friday. “Our back of the envelope math suggests the impact (of the new tariffs) will be...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday said he rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s statement about a possible blockade of the South American country, adding that its seas would remain “free and independent.” Maduro said he had asked Venezuela’s ambassador to the United Nations,...

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Friday urged the Trump Administration to suspend future sales of munitions and crowd-control equipment to Hong Kong police which has been accused of using excessive force against anti-government protesters. A Hong Kong democracy activist, Joshua Wong,...

Iran will take another step to reduce its compliance with a landmark 2015 nuclear deal, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday without elaborating, according to parliamentary news agency ICANA. Iran has repeatedly said it will reduce its commitment to the nuclear...

Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) and the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) opposition alliance have reached a final agreement on power sharing, African Union mediator Mohamed Hassan Lebatt said early Saturday. Lebatt told reporters in Khartoum after long talks between the...

Pep Guardiola has urged Manchester City to prepare for the "incredible challenge" of battling Liverpool for the Premier League title by landing an early blow against their rivals in Sunday's Community Shield. Guardiola's side pipped Liverpool to the Premier League by one point last season...

Increasing breastfeeding to near-universal levels could save more than 800,000 lives every year, said the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) in a statement. The organization released the statement on Thursday on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week, celebrated on Aug. 1-7 to...

A 36-year-old man was stabbed to death in Stuttgart on Wednesday with a weapon described as a "sword." The man was attacked in a street in the late afternoon, police said. Witnesses called police after the attack, which occurred during a dispute. The victim succumbed to his injuries...

A final agreement between Sudan’s opposition and its military rulers is expected by Saturday, as the two sides have concluded the majority of outstanding issues, according to the opposition negotiator. "We do believe that tomorrow we will bring the Sudanese people good news about these...

Palestinians on Friday converged near a security fence that separates Gaza Strip from Israel to demonstrate against Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian territories. Gaza’s National Authority for Return and Breaking the Siege (NARBS), which organizes weekly rallies, called on...

Regime attacks on rebel-held areas in northwest Syria will "nullify" a ceasefire deal announced by Damascus, militants warned Friday, in their first official response to the truce. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a militant group led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, said "any bombardment...

Algerians descended on the capital in huge numbers Friday and called for "civil disobedience" for the first time in their months-long anti-regime campaign, despite a heavy police presence. "Civil disobedience is coming!" protesters shouted, as they marched calmly through the center of...

All parties in the 13th round of on Syria peace talks held in Kazakhstan expressed satisfaction on the progress towards the establishment of the constitutional committee in Syria, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Friday. "The thirteenth round of the high-level meetings on Syria was held...

Presidential hopefuls in Tunisia began registering their candidacies Friday for snap September polls called after the death of 92-year-old leader Beji Caid Essebsi. Eight would-be candidates, including media magnate Nabil Karoui, submitted their papers to the North African country's...

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Russia was to blame after the United States withdrew from the landmark nuclear missile pact (INF) between the two countries, saying the United Kingdom fully supported NATO's response. "Russia has caused the INF Treaty to collapse by secretly...