UN humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock and the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Henrietta Fore, have condemned the deadly airstrike in Hodaida governorate, in western Yemen, that killed at…
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Yemen's Houthi forces said air raids by the Saudi-UAE military alliance killed dozens of civilians, most of them children.
According to the Houthi movement's Al Masirah TV, 22 children…
InternationalAustralia’s Malcolm Turnbull has been ousted as prime minister following a week of chaos in the capital, as the nation watched the ruling Liberal Party tear itself apart over ideological…
InternationalThree villages southwest of Berlin have been evacuated as a wildfire the size of 400 soccer fields spread Friday.
More than 500 people had to leave their homes as a result of the fire in…
InternationalIndia and China have agreed to expand their military ties and enhance interaction to ensure peace on their common border, India said after a meeting between the old rivals’ defense ministers.…
InternationalFormer South Korean president Park Geun-hye had her lengthy prison sentence for corruption in office extended by an appeals court Friday. In April, a district court sentenced Park to 24 years in…
InternationalUS Attorney General Jeff Sessions punched back hard at President Donald Trump’s latest criticism as their long-running rift exploded into a public smackdown.
InternationalDespite serious military setbacks, the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group may still have around 20,000 fighters and is continuing its dangerous transformation into a covert global network…
InternationalBrazil’s President Michel Temer called an emergency meeting of key ministers on Sunday after ordering troops to the border with Venezuela as regional tensions build over the exodus from its…
InternationalA group of mostly elderly South Koreans crossed into North Korea Monday to reunite with family members many have not seen nor heard from since the Korean War broke out 68 years ago.
InternationalIraq’s Sairoon Alliance led by Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr is in talks to form a coalition with the Nasr alliance led by outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, along with two other…
InternationalA man wielding a knife and shouting in Arabic was shot dead as he entered a police station south of Barcelona, Spanish authorities said on Monday. The attacker, said to be 29 and of Algerian…
InternationalAfghan forces launched a lightning operation in northern Kunduz province on Monday, rescuing 149 people, including women and children, abducted by the Taliban just hours earlier, officials said…
InternationalA series of quakes including a powerful magnitude 6.9 tremor have struck the Indonesian holiday island of Lombok, the US Geological Survey says, killing at least 10 people and causing others to…
InternationalUS forces will stay in Iraq “as long as needed” to help stabilize regions previously controlled by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, a spokesman for the US-led international…
InternationalEarthquakes struck near two popular vacation destinations on Sunday, one rattling the South Pacific islands of Fiji and Tonga and another striking Indonesia’s Lombok. The quake roughly 200 miles…
InternationalThe toll of Genoa’s bridge collapse rose to 43 Sunday as rescuers confirmed they had found the remains believed to be of a missing family, a day after Italy held a funeral for the disaster…
InternationalThere is a growing firestorm over US President Donald Trump’s decision to revoke former CIA director John Brennan’s security clearance. Now, there are plans to cancel the clearances for other…
InternationalThe US Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a cyber attack on the congressional campaign of a Democratic candidate in California, according to three people close to the campaign.
InternationalThe British government will on Thursday publish the first in a series of technical notices designed to prepare the UK for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit.
The notices will include…
InternationalTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared on Saturday that his country would not be cowed by the United States, his latest broadside in the bitter feud between Ankara and Washington.
…InternationalQatar has accused Saudi Arabia of barring its nationals from performing this year’s hajj, a charge Saudi officials deny.
Around 1,200 Qatari citizens should be allowed to attend the…
InternationalRescuers have used helicopters and boats to evacuate thousands of people stranded on their rooftops following unprecedented flooding in the southern Indian state of Kerala that killed more than…
InternationalChina’s Defense Ministry has lodged a complaint with the United States about a Pentagon report that said China’s military was likely training for strikes against the United States and its allies…
InternationalChinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Pyongyang next month at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to attend celebrations of the 70th anniversary of North Korea’s founding,…
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