Venezuela accuses US of trying to engineer coupVenezuela’s vice president on Tuesday accused her US counterpart of “openly calling for a coup d’etat” ahead of a mass street protest announced by the opposition for Wednesday. “Yankee go home! We won...
4 charged in plot to attack Muslim community named IslambergThree men and a high school student were charged with plotting to attack a rural upstate New York Muslim community named Islamberg with explosives, authorities said Tuesday. The Rochester-area residen...
Dueling Senate bills would end shutdown in different waysSenate leaders agreed to hold votes this week on dueling proposals to reopen shuttered federal agencies, forcing a political reckoning for senators grappling with the longest shutdown in US history: S...
Natural gas fields give Israel a regional political boostA decade after discovering natural gas fields off its Mediterranean coast, Israel is starting to feel the geopolitical boost. Its newfound riches have fostered economic bonds with its neighbors, tight...
Families keep trying to cross border, wall or no wallMaria Orbelina Cortez says she fled El Salvador for the US after her husband attacked her and knocked a pan of scalding oil onto her youngest son's head. After quietly planning for months, she took th...
France, Germany strengthen treaty ties to tackle EU crisisFrance and Germany Tuesday signed a new friendship treaty to deepen their alliance at a time of crisis for the EU, drawing fire from the far right which President Emmanuel Macron slapped down for “spr...
Two drowned Saudi sisters committed suicide: US medical examinerTwo Saudi sisters whose bodies were found taped together on the banks of a New York river committed suicide, the city's medical examiner said on Tuesday. Rotana Farea, 22, and her sister Tala, 16, wer...
Philippine Senators oppose president’s push to lower criminal age to 9Senators in the Philippines on Tuesday joined activists and child protection groups in condemning a lower house move to reduce the age of criminal liability from 15 to nine, calling it extreme and unj...
Putin and Erdogan to hold Syria talksRussian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold Syria talks in Moscow on Wednesday, with Turkey saying they will focus on Ankara’s so-called “security zone”...
Amid wall debate, pope visits Panama with migration in mindPope Francis is looking to leave the sex abuse scandal buffeting his papacy behind as he heads to Central America amid a standoff over President Donald Trump’s promised wall at the US-Mexico border an...
Sudan’s president, facing protests, looks for aid from QatarSudan's embattled president is in Qatar looking for support amid weekslong protests against his 29-year rule in the African nation. President Omar al-Bashir will meet Wednesday with Qatar's ruling emi...
Thai royal palace authorizes 1st election since 2014 coupThailand's royal palace issued a decree Wednesday authorizing the first general election since the military took power in 2014. The decree published in the Royal Gazette puts into effect election laws...
Italy’s Salvini hopes Macron’s support dwindles at EU electionsItalian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday he hoped the French people would not choose President Emmanuel Macron's party in European parliament elections later this year, heighteni...
Sonia Gandhi’s daughter enters politics ahead of voteA scion of India's most famous political dynasty on Wednesday formally entered politics, with the opposition Congress party assigning her a position as it prepares for national elections due before Ma...
Spain charges ‘Wolf Pack’ with another sexual assaultSpanish prosecutors have tabled another sex crime charge against four men calling themselves “The Wolf Pack” who assaulted a young woman at the Pamplona bull-running festival in 2016. In a controversi...