Japan's Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Tuesday that bilateral talks on trade under a new framework led by him and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer won't begin until mid-June at the earliest. In a summit last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S....
Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a spokesman said Monday. Jim McGrath said on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is "responding to treatments and appears to be recovering." He was...
TORONTO (Reuters) - A driver plowed his white Ryder rental van into a crowd, killing nine people and injuring 16 along a roughly mile-long stretch of busy Toronto sidewalk during lunch hour on a sunny Monday afternoon, police said. Officials declined to answer questions about what...
His departure rescued Roma. His arrival revitalized Liverpool. When the two clubs meet over two legs in the Champions League semifinals, the matches will also serve as a celebration of Mohamed Salah, a player who means more to Roma and Liverpool than they could ever have imagined....
Syrian security services chief Ali Mamluk has refused to appear before a military tribunal in Lebanon to face terror-related charges, a court source told AFP Monday. Mamluk, a member of President Bashar Assad's inner circle, was accused in 2013 by Lebanon's government of "attempting to...
The administrative chief of Houthi-controlled northern Yemen was killed in an Arab-led coalition air raid last week, Houthi-run television reported Monday. Saleh al-Samad was the most senior Houthi official to be killed by the coalition since it intervened in Yemen's civil war in 2015...
More than a dozen Syrian regime forces have been killed fighting Daesh (ISIS) in a devastated southern district of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group said Monday. Forces loyal to Bashar Assad ramped up their ground operations and bombing raids against the Palestinian...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian rebels killed at least 23 militants loyal to Bashar al-Assad in the northeastern countryside of Homs city as heavy clashes are still underway, sources told Zaman al-Wasl Monday. Five army soldiers were also taken captive by rebels near Salim village, as...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful Kurdish PYD militia allowed 50 displaced families to return back home in the village of Tel Hamam in the northeastern province of Hasaka, local activists said Monday. After three years of displacement, people of Tel Hamam arrived the village. The...
Daesh (ISIS) has threatened to attack Iraqi polling stations and voters during parliamentary elections next month. In a message posted to the Telegram messaging app on Sunday, Daesh spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir called on Sunni Iraqis to boycott the May 12 polls, the first since Iraqi...
The European signatories of Iran's nuclear deal with major powers should convince U.S. President Donald Trump not to exit the accord as there is no "plan B" for the agreement, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Tweeted Monday. "It is either all or nothing. European leaders...
Governments will seek more than $6 billion in aid for Syria at a two-day donor conference from Tuesday, which the European Union hopes will also offer Russia, Turkey and Iran a chance to renew peace efforts. As the conflict enters its eighth devastating year, Brussels has invited some...
Salah Abdeslam, the last remaining suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks, has been found guilty of attempted terrorist murder in a separate trial in Brussels. He has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Salah Abdeslam, the last remaining suspect in a string of Islamist attacks carried out in...
A Palestinian was killed in an explosion in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday, according to the health ministry. A child was also injured in the blast, ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said in a statement. The cause of the explosion remains unknown. The Hamas-run...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said the U.S. should at least maintain a diplomatic presence in Syria, ahead of a visit to Washington. “It's not automatically U.S. forces, but that's U.S. diplomacy and that's your president,” Macron said in an interview on Fox News conducted...
Libyan naval forces on Sunday announced the death of 11 undocumented migrants, and the rescue of another 83. In a statement, the naval forces affiliated with the national consensus government said the bodies were found afloat on early Sunday, five miles off the coast of northwestern...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Zaman al-Wasl obtained exclusive reports leaked by group of army officers, who still in duty showing how the corruption has swept the Syrian navy. Since the established of Syrian navy in 1950, no role has been remembered as its role in bombing the Syrian people over the...
Liverpool winger, Mohammed Salah, has been named the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year for the 2017/2018 season. Salah won the prize ahead of Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne, who was the early season favourite to claim it. The other players nominated in...
Rafa Nadal continued his fine form to beat Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-2 in the Monte Carlo final and has still not dropped a set since the quarter finals in Rome last year.He has won his last 36 sets and now has a record 31 Masters 1000 titles after his latest victory on Sunday in Monte Carlo, one of...
An international human rights group late Saturday called on the UN to have a "permanent" presence in the "Great March of Return" protests along the Gaza-Israel borders, which this year have seen at least 39 Palestinians martyred by Israeli forces. According to a statement, the...
