An embattled Donald Trump complained Wednesday that no US leader had been treated "more unfairly," as top Republican lawmakers demanded the facts on the swirling scandals convulsing his presidency....
An unmarried couple were stoned to death in public in northeast Mali by Islamists, local officials told AFP on Wednesday, the first such incident since jihadist groups overran the region five years...
A senior Republican congressman has called on the FBI to hand over records of former director James Comey’s contacts with President Donald Trump. House Oversight Committee chair Jason Chaffetz...
President Donald Trump asked FBI chief James Comey to end an inquiry into links between his ex-national security adviser and Russia, US media report. "I hope you can let this go," Mr Trump reportedly...
A military court in Gaza on Monday held the first hearing of three men accused of assassinating a Hamas military leader, naming the chief suspect for the first time. Hamas has accused Palestinian...
Three British Gurkha soldiers reached the summit of Mount Everest on Monday, two years after being caught in an avalanche on the mountain sparked by the earthquake that devastated swathes of Nepal....
A senior European Union official has urged Myanmar to allow full aid access to the north of Rakhine state, where thousands have fled their homes after a months-long army crackdown on Rohingya...
Vatican finance chief George Pell accused sections of the Australian media of interfering in the course of justice Monday as he denied new child sex abuse allegations. Pell, Australia's most senior...
Letter from Africa: Why age is just a number in Ghana In our series of letters from African journalists, veteran Ghanaian journalist Elizabeth Ohene reflects on why in Ghana a person's age is not...
Isolated and agitated, Trump rattles White House from within A buoyant President Donald Trump reemerged into public for the first time in more than a week on Friday, offering few signs of the malaise...
More than 2,000 Tunisians protested Saturday in the capital against a bill that would allow officials being prosecuted for alleged corruption to be amnestied in exchange for reimbursing embezzled...
President Donald Trump has said he would be "honoured" to meet Kim Jong-un if conditions were right North Korea has said it will hold talks with the US "if the conditions were right", South Korean...
US and EU officials are due to discuss the possible extension of a US ban on laptops and tablets in cabin baggage when they meet in Brussels next week. It comes after US Homeland Security said it was...
The Pentagon said Friday it played no part in an unusual deal in which Islamic State jihadists were allowed to leave a key town in Syria -- only for some of them to be killed anyway. The US-backed...
A "huge" explosion in Pakistan's restive southwestern Balochistan province that apparently targeted a top official's convoy killed at least ten people and wounded "many" others, police told AFP...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Friday his desire for a "quantum jump" in relations with Sri Lanka, as New Delhi jostles with regional rival Beijing for influence in the island nation....
Donald Trump has tweeted photos of meetings he had with the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers - a day after the White House was left red-faced when Moscow surprised it by releasing pictures of...
An Egyptian Muslim cleric has been barred from preaching and is set to appear before a court for saying Christians and Jews followed corrupt religions and would not go to heaven. Salem Abdel Galil, a...
With hostilities subsiding on Syria's western battlefronts, President Bashar al-Assad's army is seeking to head off US-backed forces fighting jihadists further east, analysts and military sources in...
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced the establishment of a Korea Mission Centre dedicated to dealing with North Korea. The Mission Centre will use all of the resources of the CIA...
