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UN Chief Pushes Change In Trump-Era Turmoil
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres marks his first 100 days in office on Monday, facing a long list of worsening...
Egypt Under Emergency Rule After Church Attacks
Hundreds gathered Monday to mourn 45 Egyptian Christians killed in jihadist bombings just a week before Easter, after...
Syria, Russia To Top Agenda As G7 Ministers Meet
G7 foreign ministers were on Monday to send a "clear and coordinated message" to Russia over its stance on Syria as...
China Envoy Holds North Korea Nuclear Talks As US Mulls Options
China's top nuclear envoy arrived in Seoul Monday for talks on the North Korean threat, as the US sent a naval strike...
Maldives Opposition In New Bid To Take Control of Parliament
Maldives opposition parties said on Monday they would launch a fresh bid to seize control of parliament by impeaching...
China Nuclear Envoy In Talks On North Korea Threat
China's top nuclear envoy arrived in Seoul Monday for talks on the North Korean threat, as a US naval strike group...
US Marine’s Conviction For Killing Transgender Filipina Upheld
The conviction of a US Marine for killing a transgender Filipina in a case that reignited long-simmering anti-American...
Assad Allies Threaten To Act Against Further ‘aggression’
A joint command centre made up of forces from Russia, Iran and militias backing Syrian President Bashar al Assad...
Living In Cuban Time
In Cuba, it sometimes seems time stopped in the 1960s. Despite a succession of sweeping changes in recent years --...
US Steps Up Pressure On Syria Ahead of Russia Talks
The United States stepped up pressure Sunday on Russia to rein in Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, warning that any...
Russian Anger Over Boris Johnson’s Decision To Cancel Moscow Trip
Russia has hit out at Boris Johnson's decision to scrap a planned trip to Moscow after discussions with the US. The...
Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump Meets His Supporters On ‘SNl’
"Saturday Night Live" returned after weeks away and opened with Alec Baldwin's President Donald Trump taking time to...
US Envoy Says Syria’s Assad Must Go After ‘chemical Attack’
Washington's UN ambassador said that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad cannot stay in power after a suspected chemical...
Netanyahu Says Israel Committed To Treating Syrian War Wounded
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel remained committed to treating war wounded from Syria and...
Top US Diplomat Haley Says No Syria Peace With Assad
Coming closer to embracing regime change in Syria, the US ambassador to the United Nations said that with President...
Refugees To Remain In PNG If No US Resettlement
Asylum-seekers sent by Australia to a Papua New Guinea camp will be resettled there if they are not offered a place in...
Mali, France Rule Out Talks With Jihadists After Attacks
France and Mali on Friday ruled out any talks with jihadist groups responsible for repeated attacks on Malian and...
US Warships Deployed To Korean Peninsula
The US military has ordered a navy strike group to move towards the Korean peninsula, amid growing concerns about North...
Defeating IS Is ‘first Priority’ In Syria
The top priority for the United States in Syria is to defeat the Islamic State group even before stabilizing the...