King Abdullah II of Jordan, Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika and Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou are among leaders invited by Saudi King Salman for a summit with US President Donald Trump. The...
Iranians will vote to keep opening up to the world despite the "climate of tension" created by US President Donald Trump, vice president and election candidate Eshaq Jahangiri vowed in an interview...
Turkey on Wednesday slammed as "unacceptable" a US announcement that Washington would supply arms and military equipment to Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State jihadists in Syria. "The supply of...
South Korea's new president was sworn in on Wednesday, just a day after a landslide election victory, and immediately declared his willingness to visit Pyongyang amid high tensions with the...
Chen Guiqiu fled China on foot with her two daughters, only to end up in a Thai prison until US officials helped them sneak out dramatically through a back door. Now Chen is safe in Texas with her...
Toyota said Wednesday its annual net profit fell for the first time in five years, with the Japanese automaker unexpectedly warning of more declines as a stronger yen takes a bite out of its bottom...
President Donald Trump has fired the director of the FBI over his handling of the inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s emails, the administration says. The White House shocked Washington by announcing...
US President Donald Trump will receive Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov at the White House Wednesday even as a political firestorm has put Moscow's alleged meddling in the US election back in the...
They formed the charming backdrop to Graham Greene's sin-filled Saigon in "The Quiet American", but the colonial-era buildings of Vietnam's biggest city are fast disappearing -- sparking fears it is...
A New Zealand man has admitted making online death threats to former FBI director James Comey when he visited the South Pacific nation for an intelligence conference last month, reports said...
The election of South Korea's new president Moon Jae-In heralds a sea change in Seoul's approach towards the nuclear-armed North -- and puts it on a potential collision course with Washington. The...
When Donald Trump promised hopeful voters in Charleston, West Virginia to bring back mining jobs to the heart of American coal country, out-of-work miner Craig Branham was all ears. Three months into...
US President Donald Trump has approved supplying weapons to Kurdish forces fighting so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria, the Pentagon says. Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...
The State Department issued a sharp warning to Americans Tuesday against travel to North Korea after the arrest of a fourth US citizen, cautioning against the "serious risk" of lengthy detention and...
US President Donald Trump has dismissed the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) James Comey. "Today, President Donald J Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been...
US President Donald Trump has dismissed FBI director James Comey, White House says. “Today, President Donald J Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from...
The FBI director gave inaccurate information about Hillary Clinton's emails to Congress last week, say sources at the agency. James Comey told lawmakers that Mrs Clinton's top aide, Huma Abedin,...
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp on Tuesday reported some positive signs for its global newspaper operations, as the number of digital subscribers for the Wall Street Journal topped one million. The New...
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday made the shock decision to fire his FBI director James Comey, the man who leads the agency charged with investigating his campaign's ties with Russia. The...
UPS announced a partnership Tuesday to provide logistics at the 2020 World's Fair in Dubai, a venture it sees as a springboard to a bigger presence in the Middle East. UPS expects to hire 1,000...