At least six people are dead and dozens more are still trapped beneath the rubble of an illegal gold mine that collapsed in Indonesia, officials said Thursday, as rescuers frantically searched for survivors. Some 19 miners have been plucked to safety since Tuesday night's accident and...

China's foreign minister has called on Pakistan and India to avoid escalating tensions, expressing to his Pakistani counterpart "deep concern" over the Kashmir crisis amid fears aerial battles could snowball into an all-out conflict. Wang Yi's comments came as Shah Mehmood Qureshi called...

The United States has requested a vote on Thursday at the UN Security Council on a draft resolution calling for presidential elections in Venezuela and unimpeded deliveries of humanitarian aid, diplomats said. Russia and China, who support President Nicolas Maduro, are likely to veto the...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates led the way Tuesday in contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to help Yemen, where their countries' Western-backed militaries are deeply engaged in a wrenching and bloody fight against Iran-aligned militias. The commitments of $1.5 billion by...

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday the EU could only agree to extend the Brexit negotiations if Britain gave a clear reason for requesting a delay, striking a firmer tone than Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel. Britain is due to exit the EU on March 29 but its parliament...

Having joined Islamic State in Syria four years ago, the Algerian woman only abandoned the jihadists’ last scrap of besieged territory when her daughter was shot in the leg. “I don’t regret it, even now ... If my daughter was not injured, I would have stayed,” said the woman, speaking...

 White House adviser Jared Kushner made a whirlwind visit this week to rally U.S.-allied Gulf Arab allies to support his still- unannounced Middle East peace plan, the leaked contours of which suggest little has been done to address Arab demands. Kushner’s approach to ending the...

Some want to fight till the end and others want to flee: a split is emerging among jihadists as starvation grips their imploding "caliphate" in eastern Syria. Thousands of men, women and children, including hundreds of jihadists, are believed to be trapped in the Islamic State group's last...

War-weary residents of the flashpoint Yemeni port city of Hodeida have little hope of peace even as the UN regains control of vital food aid warehouses on the front lines. The United Nations has since September been unable to reach the Red Sea Mills -- carrying grain estimated to feed 3.7...

Canadians paid 1.4 percent more for goods and services in January than a year earlier, kicking off the year with a slowdown in inflation, government data showed Wednesday. The figure was slightly less than economists had forecast, following a 2.0 percent average price hike in December to...

Syria's regime army on Wednesday displayed a huge cache of what it said were powerful explosives left behind by rebels in Daraa province, the birthplace of the uprising that sparked the country's civil war. During a government-organised trip for journalists to the area, an AFP correspondent...

Algeria's ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika remains at a Swiss hospital as protests grow in his country against his bid for a fifth term, the Tribune de Geneve newspaper reported Wednesday. Citing what it described as multiple and well-informed sources, the TdG reported that Bouteflika...

A now-abandoned pension reform announced in April 2018 kicked off months of anti-government protests in Nicaragua that were harshly repressed, claiming around 325 lives. Even after the protests ended in October, President Daniel Ortega pursued a crackdown on the opposition with more than...

China’s Huawei Technologies and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics have agreed to settle a two-year old patent dispute in the United States, court documents show. The two companies filed a joint motion to a U.S. appeals court on Tuesday to pause court proceedings over their intellectual...

US-backed forces in eastern Syria scrambled Wednesday to extract more families from the last dreg of the "caliphate" before delivering a final blow to holdout jihadists. Several thousand people -- fighters and their relatives -- are believed to be holed up in the last pocket of territory...

The Saudi energy minister said Wednesday he is leaning towards extending oil production cuts in the second half of 2019, despite US President Donald Trump's demand to keep prices down. OPEC cartel countries and other major oil producers in January began implementing a six-month deal to cut...

Israeli police on Wednesday arrested a senior Palestinian official after recent scuffles at a highly sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, officials said. The Palestinian governor of Jerusalem, Adnan Gheith, was among 22 Palestinians arrested overnight in raids in east Jerusalem, official...

The Chinese and Russian foreign ministers voiced their opposition to military action in Venezuela on Wednesday, as President Nicolas Maduro faces increasing pressure from the United States to step down. Russia and China, which have had close relations with Maduro over the years, have...

Lending to the private sector in the eurozone decelerated in January, ECB data showed Wednesday, as the withdrawal of a central bank stimulus last year begins to show its impact. Borrowing among eurozone firms and households grew by three percent year-on-year in January, according to...

France on Wednesday called Poland a "key player" in Europe, signalling warming ties between the two countries that had been chilled by diverging political views and Warsaw's cancellation of a major military contract. "Poland can play a key role in the future of Europe, and France is aware...