The death toll from last week’s powerful earthquake in Turkey’s Aegean region has risen to 114, authorities said early Wednesday.  As many as 137 victims are still receiving treatment while 898 have been discharged from hospitals, according to the Disaster and Emergency Management...

Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc early Wednesday flagged President Donald Trump's comments on the U.S. presidential election, which remained too close to call. Twitter said a Trump tweet alleging an effort to steal the election was potentially misleading. Facebook also flagged a Trump post...

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden were locked in tight races in battleground states across the country Tuesday night as they concluded an epic campaign that will shape America's response to the surging pandemic and foundational questions of economic fairness and racial...

Far-right conspiracy theorist and self-described "proud Islamophobe" Laura Loomer has lost her House race to Democratic incumbent Rep. Lois Frankel, AP reports. Why it matters: Loomer has been banned from Facebook and Twitter over controversial statements, including anti-Muslim remarks...

President Donald Trump called into talk radio shows in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin just hours before polls closed. Trump projected confidence Tuesday that he will win key states like North Carolina and Florida and said he’s expecting a “great” evening....

Millions of voters braved coronavirus concerns and occasional long lines Tuesday to choose between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden in an epic election that will influence how the U.S. confronts everything from the pandemic to race relations for years to come....

More than 13,000 votes in one South Carolina county will have to wait a while to be counted because of a printing error. Dorchester County Election Commissioner Todd Billman said at a news conference Tuesday that the mail-in ballots did not have the proper bars printed at the top so the...

A Syrian refugee and former detainee who underwent three years of torture in the Assad regime’s prison system has been admitted into the US’ prestigious Georgetown University. Omar Alshoghre, now a Sweden-based public speaker and activist who seeks to educate the world on his experience,...

Injury to Paris Saint-Germain stars Neymar and Kylian Mbappe gives RB Leipzig a slight advantage for Wednesday's Champions League group match in a repeat of last season's semi-final, says their coach Julian Nagelsmann. "Of course it's not a disadvantage that Mbappe and Neymar won't play -...

A total of 37 passengers were rescued from a boat which capsized in the Mediterranean Sea off southern Turkey, Turkish Coast Guard Command said Wednesday. One body was also recovered from the tourist boat, which capsized off the coast of Alanya in the coastal Antalya province, said the...

Chinese President Xi Jinping, commenting on the ruling Communist Party’s recommendations for the next five years, said on Tuesday said the country faces a significant increase in risks. Xi and the Central Committee, the largest of the ruling Communist Party’s top decision-making bodies,...

As Americans head to the polls, prime ministers and presidents around the world face a delicate question - when to congratulate the eventual winner, especially given the risk the election result will be contested. On the one hand, there’s a chance the popular vote will go one way and the...

Daesh (IS) claimed responsibility Tuesday for an attack in Vienna that killed at least four people, without providing evidence, in a statement from the group's Amaq News Agency posted on Telegram. The statement was accompanied by a picture of a bearded man, named "Abu Dagnah Al-Albany",...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Iran-backed militants have killed 14 civilians, including four women and a child, in a desert area in the central province of Homs, Zaman al-Wasl reporter said Tuesday.   Eight more people were wounded in the attack on the al-Umour area in the eastern countryside of...

Bahrain announced Tuesday it convicted 51 people, more than half of them abroad, on charges of belonging to a militant group. It was the latest mass trial conducted in this island kingdom amid a yearslong crackdown on all dissent. Bahrain described those convicted as belonging to an unnamed...

Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum said Tuesday he had received an experimental coronavirus vaccine, becoming the latest United Arab Emirates official to take part in the trials. Two vaccines are undergoing third-phase trials in the UAE, one produced by Chinese drug giant...

Another four people have been placed in custody over last week’s fatal knife attack in the French city of Nice, BFM TV and Agence France Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday. An assailant shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) beheaded a woman and killed two other people in a church in Nice...

Supporters of U.S. vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris held prayers near her ancestral village in India ahead of Tuesday’s U.S. election, while a Hindu fringe group sought divine blessings for her rival Donald Trump. The southern Indian region where Harris’ maternal grandfather was...

European police launched coordinated raids in seven countries on Tuesday as part of a clampdown on online hatred and incitement to violence, the European Union law enforcement agency Europol and German prosecutors said. In Germany, police searched 83 apartments and other buildings to seize...

Defence lawyers in the trial of Sudan's ousted president Omar al-Bashir over a 1989 coup Tuesday kept up accusations that the prosecutor general was ineligible for the case. "The prosecutor general has been politicised, he is exploiting his authority," a member of the defence team charged...