Bombs at public buildings and holiday villas going up in flames: a spike in attacks on Corsica has led to worries that nationalist violence could return to the tourist destination known as France's "island of beauty". The Mediterranean territory, famed for its beaches and as the birthplace...

Four Yemeni soldiers were killed Tuesday in an ambush in Yemen's Hadhramaut province, according to a local military source. An improvised explosive device went off while a Yemeni military patrol was passing through Hadhramaut’s city of Seiyun, a military source told Anadolu Agency on...

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has branded India's destruction of one of the country’s satellites last week as a “terrible thing”. The comments came on Monday, days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India had shot down a satellite, a culmination of the...

Shamima, 19, said in the first interview since the death of her son Jarrah that she was brainwashed and knew little about her religion when she joined ISIS  ISIS bride Shamima Begum has begged for a second chance and admitted she regrets having children in Syria, according to a new...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's conservative party has lost control of Turkey’s biggest city, final tallies showed on Tuesday, sanctioning one of its most serious electoral setbacks in years. On top of its defeat in the capital Ankara, a ruling party stronghold for decades, the ruling AK...

 More than 113 million people across 53 countries experienced "acute hunger" last year because of wars and climate disasters, with Africa the worst-hit region, the U.N. said Tuesday. Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and Syria were among the eight nations accounting...

A choir of women underwent a fascinating evolution from singing for each other to performing for a large audience of other refugees in Berlin, who find solace in their mesmerising music. After years of civil war and millions of people fleeing Syria, in a small Berlin neighbourhood lies a...

Mexico will help to regulate the flow of Central American migrants passing through its territory to the United States, but the root causes behind the phenomenon must be tackled, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. Speaking after U.S. President Donald Trump on...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s insistence that there is little wrong with how he is handling the worst crisis of his tenure is frustrating lawmakers and senior party figures who believe the approach could cost him re-election this October. Angry legislators are starting to push...

A Palestinian man was shot dead by Israeli forces on Tuesday during clashes with troops in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said. The Israeli military said troops opened fire after Palestinians threw rocks and explosives at them during an operation southeast of the city...

Global oil prices reached their highest levels of 2019 on Tuesday, fueled by shortages from Venezuela, Iran and OPEC+ as well as drops in U.S. shale production. International benchmark Brent crude increased to $69.76 on Tuesday, while American benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) saw...

An international aid group says 31 deaths were recorded in the final week of March among people making their way out of the last sliver of territory held by the Islamic State group and toward a camp for the displaced. The International Rescue Committee says Monday the highest weekly death...

The children of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi have received multimillion-dollar homes and are being paid thousands of dollars per month by the kingdom's authorities, The Washington Post reported Monday. Khashoggi -- a contributor to the Post and a critic of the Saudi government...

Venezuela's chief justice on Monday asked lawmakers to strip opposition leader Juan Guaido of immunity, taking a step toward prosecuting him for alleged crimes as he seeks to oust President Nicolas Maduro. Supreme Court Justice Maikel Moreno said Guaido should be prosecuted for violating a...

The Israeli government hopes to settle some 250,000 Israelis in the occupied Syrian Golan heights over the next 30 years, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority (IBA) reported on Monday. The report comes one week after U.S. President Donald Trump signed a presidential proclamation recognizing...

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg's call for "globally harmonized" online regulation raises questions about how internet platforms can deal with concerns about misinformation and abusive content while remaining open to free speech. Here are key questions about the latest proposal from...

A delegation from Egypt’s General Intelligence Service (GIS) arrived in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday for talks with Palestinian resistance faction Hamas, which has governed the enclave since 2007. The delegation, which is reportedly being led by Major-General Ahmed Abdel-Khaliq, GIS...

India on Monday launched an intelligence-gathering satellite EMISAT and 28 other satellites from different nations, local media reported. “The mission would witness ISRO [Indian Space Research Organization] placing payloads in three orbits and conducting space experiments for the first...

Pakistan's interior ministry ordered investigations into six journalists who had posted pictures online of murdered Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said Monday. RSF said it was "appalled" to learn of the investigations, adding that it...

Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign before his mandate expires on April 28, his office said on Monday, after a succession of loyalists deserted the ailing leader in recent days. Bouteflika would take "steps to ensure state institutions continue to function during the...