Israel voiced openness Monday to U.S.-mediated talks with Lebanon on resolving a dispute over the neighbors' maritime border that has dogged Mediterranean oil and gas exploration. Such talks, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz's office said in a statement after he met U.S. envoy David...

An Iraqi court on Monday condemned a fourth French citizen to death for joining the Islamic State group, a day after handing capital punishments to three other Frenchmen. Mustapha Merzoughi, 37, was sentenced to death by hanging, according to an AFP journalist at the court. "The...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday a deal with Iran on its nuclear program was possible, crediting economic sanctions for curbing activities Washington has said are behind a spate of attacks in the Middle East. “I really believe that Iran would like to make a deal, and I think...

Austrian lawmakers are likely to sack Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in a vote of no-confidence Monday after the leader of the far-right party holding the key to the outcome indicated it would probably vote against him. Kurz's conservatives came out on top in Sunday's European Parliament...

Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday that Moscow was ready to play a role in talks between the Venezuelan government and opposition in Oslo if the participants felt it was useful. Norway said Saturday that representatives of Venezuela's government and opposition would return to...

French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced Monday that a suspect has been arrested in connection with a package bomb that wounded 13 people Friday in Lyon. Lyon's mayor said later that a second suspect had been arrested. Security camera footage of the incident showed the main...

Oil prices were mixed on Monday, with U.S. crude under pressure from Sino-American trade tensions, while Brent prices were supported by OPEC’s supply cuts. Front-month U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at $58.43 per barrel at 0700 GMT, down 20 cents, or 0.3%, from their...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's embattled coalition will hold crisis talks Monday after a thumping at European polls that has reignited questions over its survival. Voters handed her CDU party and its center-left coalition partner SPD their worst score in European election history, while...

North Korea slammed U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton Monday, calling him a "war maniac" who should be banished, just as President Donald Trump offered a positive outlook on relations with Pyongyang. Talks between Washington and Pyongyang have been deadlocked since the collapse of...

President Donald Trump on Monday backed the Japanese prime minister's interest in using his country's good relations with Iran to help broker a possible dialogue between the U.S. and its nemesis in the Middle East. Trump, who has said he's open to having a dialogue with Iran, has sought to...

Regime air strikes killed 12 civilians including four at a market on Sunday in a jihadist bastion in northwest Syria, a war monitor said. A young girl was among those killed at the market in the town of Maaret al-Numan in Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said....

Marine Le Pen’s far-right party edged just ahead of the centrist alliance of President Emmanuel Macron in exit polls as French voters led what pollsters expected to be a nationalist surge in an EU parliament election on Sunday. The defeat for the president was narrow amid a sharply...

A leader of Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday it had resumed drone strikes deep inside Saudi Arabia this month in response to what he called the Saudi-led coalition’s spurning of “peace initiatives” by his group. Mohammed Ali al-Houthi dismissed Saudi accusations that the...

Saudi Arabia Sunday shot down a bomb-laden drone deployed by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels in Yemen to attack an airport in the kingdom, state media reported. The Saudi air force intercepted and destroyed the drone that targeted Jizan airport, close to the southern border with Yemen, the...

Algeria’s Constitutional Council announced Sunday that two candidates had finally registered for the country’s July 4th presidential election, hours after public radio reported that a deadline had passed without any candidacy. The poll is strongly opposed by protesters who reject any vote...

 Germany, a leading donor and member of the NATO-led coalition in Afghanistan, has been talking with the Taliban and the Afghan government in an effort to restart peace talks to end 18 years of conflict, officials said. While the Taliban have been talking with U.S. officials since...

The prospect of a “no deal” Brexit was fast becoming the central battle of the race to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday, as environment minister Michael Gove became the latest candidate to declare. May said on Friday she was quitting over her failure to deliver Brexit,...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed concerns about recent missile launches from North Korea and said he was confident that the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, would keep promises that he had made. “North Korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people, and...

The U.S. military presence in the Middle East is at its “weakest in history”, a deputy commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards was on Sunday quoted by the semi-official news agency Fars as saying. U.S. President Donald Trump has tightened economic sanctions against Iran, and his...

Iran will defend itself against any military or economic aggression, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday, calling on European states to do more to preserve a nuclear agreement his country signed. Speaking at a Baghdad news conference with his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed...