UNITED NATIONS — President Trump has long argued that the United States has been taken advantage of by other nations — a “laughing stock to the entire ...
President Donald Trump's touting of how his administration has accomplished more than any -- yes, any -- past administration in its first two years is one of his ...
The flames of fury\u00a0over priest sex abuse scandals are\u00a0eroding the faith of Catholics and chasing many from pews, Pope Francis admitted Tuesday ...
TALLINN, Estonia - As the Catholic Church prepares for a summit of bishops in October focusing on youth and vocations within the wider context of clerical sex ...
The spreading scandals in the Roman Catholic Church provoke the question: could the church collapse? I worked as a management consultant to some of the ...
Pope Francis acknowledged on Tuesday that the sex abuse scandals rocking the Catholic Church were driving people away and said the church must change ...
Saudi Arabia denied it backed the gunmen who killed 29 people at a military parade in southwestern Iran, almost half of them Revolutionary Guards, the Saudi ...
LONDON — The crackle of gunfire has ceased, but questions swirl around who carried out an attack on a military parade in southern Iran that left at least 25 ...
The specificity and scale of Iranian threats that have followed Saturday's terrorist attack in Ahvaz indicate that Iran will retaliate against those it blames for the ...
A beluga whale has been seen swimming in the River Thames. It was first spotted by ecologist and ornithologist Dave Andrews, who said it had been feeding ...
Archaeologists have found a 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Portugal, in what one specialist called the "discovery of a decade". Spices, ceramics and ...
The US treasury department has imposed financial sanctions on Venezuela's First Lady, Cilia Flores. The move comes just over a year after President Nicolás ...
President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Venezuela's leader Nicolas Maduro could be easily toppled by a military coup and the U.S stepped up ...
The U.S. imposed sanctions on a number of people in Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's inner circle, including his wife and the South American country's ...
BERLIN — A report to be released Tuesday documents the sexual abuse of more than 3,600 people by 1,670 clergy members within Germany's Catholic Church ...
A top German bishop has apologized for thousands of sexual abuse cases that took place inside the Catholic Church in Germany, according to a devastating ...
The Catholic Church's sex-abuse scandal has reached such a fever pitch that its top officials are now compelled to act. Last week, Pope Francis expelled a priest ...
BEIJING — China rejected a request by an American warship to make a port visit to Hong Kong next month, officials said on Tuesday, as tensions between the ...
The Chinese government refused the USS Wasp a port visit to Hong Kong next month, a decision issued as Beijing also canceled a high-level naval meeting in ...
Amid a number of economic, geopolitical, and military disputes between China and the US, Beijing has rejected a US Navy warship's request to make a port call ...
Archaeologists have uncovered what they say is a 'huge' ancient building in what was once Egypt's capital city, the country's Antiquities Ministry announced ...
Archaeologists have discovered a “massive” ancient building in Egypt. The building was found in the town of Mit Rahina, 12 miles (20km) south of the capital, ...
The mechanism, called a "special purpose vehicle", would aim to "assist and reassure economic operators pursuing legitimate business with Iran," according to ...
When it was signed in 2015, the Iran nuclear agreement was hailed as a landmark deal. But with the US withdrawal earlier this year and threats of punishing t...
The European Union on Tuesday announced how it will circumvent U.S. sanctions against Iran. But EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini's plan won't ...
Sweden's centre-left prime minister, Stefan Lofven, will have to stand down after losing the support of parliament. The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD) ...
STOCKHOLM — Prime Minister Stefan Lofven of Sweden lost a vote of confidence on Tuesday after an election this month stripped him of his majority and left ...
This month's national election resulted in a hung parliament, after a far-right party made gains. Now, Premier Stefan Löfven has lost a confidence vote and the ...
BEIJING — The United States is “holding a knife to our neck” with its attempts to force China to give in to its demands to rectify trade imbalances, a top official ...
Beijing (CNN) China's deputy trade negotiator on Tuesday acknowledged the challenge in resuming negotiations with the US, saying: "How could you negotiate ...
WASHINGTON — The trade war really is on — counterproductive and unnecessary and yet likely to last. President Trump's new tariffs on $200 billion worth of ...
With tariffs and tweets, President Trump eggs on a trade war between China and America. With no trade talks on the horizon, relations are unlikely to improve ...
Britain's opposition Labour party was voting Tuesday on a policy that would put a new public vote on the table if Theresa May's government failed to get an ...
Britain's main opposition party has voted to keep open the option of a second referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union. Labour leader ...
The equation, referred to as the "Everest of Mathematics," is connected to the distribution of prime numbers – those that can only be divided by themselves and ...
Former Cambridge academic Michael Atiyah claims he had proof of the Riemann hypothesis - a way to map prime numbers, which can only be divided by one ...
The US Marine Corps' stealth F-35B Lightning fighter jet could fly its first combat mission within days, according to several US defense officials, who told CNN ...
A new decision by Russia to deploy S-300 missile defence systems to Syria raises the stakes in the conflict, especially with Israel, which regularly bombs Syria.
The US has warned Russia it is causing a "significant escalation" by deploying new, advanced missiles to Syria. The Kremlin is sending an S-300 missile defen.
MOSCOW — Russia said Monday it would equip Syria with sophisticated air defense systems, a move that could worsen a rift with Israel by limiting its ability to ...
Israel will attempt to ignore Russia's delivery of an S-300 air defense system to Syria. But if that system competently targets Israeli jets, the Israelis will destroy it.
President Trump's trade czar said the U.S. and Mexico are ready to leave Canada behind in the North American Free Trade Agreement—and move ahead with a ...
The Trump administration appears virtually certain to miss its weekend deadline for reaching agreement with Canada on a new North American trade deal, ...
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the United Nations now feels "like home," but his speech to the yearly assembly in New York didn't exactly get a ...
French President Emmanuel Macron told the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday that his country will begin to make trade agreements contingent on ...
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's criticism of high oil prices, saying that if had not reimposed ...
New satellite imagery of a remote Russian test site suggests that the missile may not be working as well as claimed.Satellite imagery from Planet Labs Inc.
Earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed his nation had successfully tested a nuclear-powered weapon. Satellite imagery suggests it may not ...
Senator Antonio Trillanes outside his office in Manila on Tuesday. He is the second Philippine opposition senator to be arrested since Rodrigo Duterte became president.Bullit Marquez/Associated Press
MANILA — A Philippine senator who defied President Rodrigo Duterte was arrested on Tuesday, ending a dramatic, weekslong standoff with the authorities after ...
Philippines police arrested the most prominent critic of President Rodrigo Duterte, capping a three-week showdown that has tested the limits of Mr. Duterte's ...
A prominent Philippines lawmaker and critic of President Rodrigo Duterte who has been holed up in the country's Senate has left accompanied by police officers ...
A Philippine opposition senator who is a vocal critic of President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested in a move which has been condemned as persecution of the ...
Rodrigo Duterte's fiercest critic in the Philippines congress has been arrested after his amnesty for a failed coup attempt was revoked, the latest persecution of a ...
Palestinian demonstrators carry a national flag during a protest calling for an end to the Israeli blockade on Gaza, on a beach in Beit Lahia near the maritime border with Israel, Sept. 24, 2018.Getty
JERUSALEM -- The Gaza Strip's economy is in "free fall," a report from the World Bank warned Tuesday, calling for urgent action by Israel and the international ...
The Gaza Strip's economy is in "free fall," a report from the World Bank warned Tuesday, calling for urgent action by Israel and the international community to ...
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded dozens of others on Monday taking part in a protest near the border between Israel ...
France told a migrant rescue ship with 58 people aboard that it would not be allowed to dock at one of its ports on Tuesday, two days after Panamanian ...
PARIS (Reuters) - France is not ready for now to let the Mediterranean rescue ship Aquarius dock and disembark dozens of migrants at the port of Marseille, ...
Portugal has offered to take in 10 migrants from the Aquarius rescue ship as Europe once again finds itself divided over what to do with the large number of ...
One year after hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Senator Elizabeth Warren and seven other senators are renewing ...
Ric Elias, CEO of RedVentures and native of Puerto Rico, started an organization to help Puerto Rico's young professionals kickstart the next chapter of ...
JetBlue's newest aircraft is sending a special message to the people of Puerto Rico. The custom-designed plane, named “Bluericua” is dedicated to “La Isla del ...
The C.I.A. director is supportive of the Trump administration's diplomatic efforts, but reflects a widespread view that North Korea is reluctant to denuclearize.
PYONGYANG, Sept 25 (Reuters) - One of the first things any traveler to North Korea notices is a huge portrait of Kim Il Sung, pictured in front of an airplane and ...
kingviews) - For the Vatican, China is basically business as usual. For Google, it is a new frontier forcing compromise. And for almost any enterprise with global ...
Attempts to defend the recent provisional agreement between the Vatican and the People's Republic of China, which was signed on September 22, have rung ...
Finally, the Vatican has done a deal with China, or rather with the ruling Chinese Communist Party that has been conducting an escalating program of ...
President Donald Trump's foreign policy is often caricatured as a mass of contradictions. He rails against the dumb wars of his predecessors, but has yet to ...
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US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in during a bilateral meeting in New York on September 24, 2018, a day before the start of the General Debate of the 73rd session of the General Assembly. (Photo by Nicholas Kamm / AFP) (Photo credit should read NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
The signing of a renegotiated free-trade agreement between the U.S. and South Korea is spurring optimism that export markets for American farm goods won't ...
President Donald Trump embarks upon another "America First" crusade at the world's foremost diplomatic institution this week. For some Republicans, his ...
Brett Kavanaugh can still be confirmed to the Supreme Court — if Senate Republicans stick with him. But their support is reportedly softening. Several senators ...
Dan Rather said Monday night that both the Rosenstein story and Kavanaugh controversy is about President Trump's "fear." Specifically, the "fear" that ...
Rod Rosensteinis one of the few deputy attorney generals in recent history to more resemble a Hollywood soap-opera actor than a real-life Detective Joe Friday.
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein could face articles of impeachment unless he agrees to testify before the House Judiciary Committee, said Republican ...
Rep. Chris Collins's (N.Y.) reelection campaign is defending the embattled GOP lawmaker over claims that a recent ad from his team showing his Democratic ...
Indicted Republican Rep. Chris Collins kicked off his recently revived re-election bid by releasing a misleading ad which shows a clip of his opponent, Democrat ...
President Trump was met with awkward laughter from a U.N. General Assembly audience on Tuesday while boasting of successes under his administration, but ...
The US military again flew B-52 nuclear capable bombers through the South China Sea, and completely refuses to back down to China's claims over the ...
China hopes that Britain can stand by its position of not taking sides in the South China Sea and earnestly respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, the ...
CHINA has ordered the UK to respect the nation by staying out of the South China Sea row after a Royal Navy warship was spotted close to disputed islands in ...
China hopes that Britain can stand by its position of not taking sides in the South China Sea and earnestly respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, the ...
In a sign either of indiscipline or a scorched-earth strategy, Trump went on the attack against Kavanaugh accusers Ford and Ramirez at a press conference at ...
The Monaco Yacht Show takes place this week, where 40 new superyachts will make their worldwide debut. Many yachts at the Monaco Yacht Show are owned ...
U.S. President Donald Trump told Germany on Tuesday to follow Poland's example and not rely on Russia for its energy supplies which could make it vulnerable ...
Experts at Florida International University on Monday night discussed the deadly protests in Nicaragua, saying an economic collapse is coming, which may ...
A judge in Nicaragua has issued an arrest warrant for opposition activist Felix Maradiaga, accusing him of having financed anti-government protests. Hundreds ...
MANAGUA (Reuters) - A Managua judge issued an arrest warrant on Monday for opposition leader Felix Maradiaga, accused by the Nicaraguan government of ...
President Donald Trump received laughs before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City Tuesday after he claimed his administration had been ...
President Donald Trump will express a desire for other nations “to exert their sovereignty to solve challenges“ and to listen “to what America can do to help" ...
At a meeting in Washington after Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in May, a senior U.S. official told European diplomats that their efforts to save ...
In an interview with NBC News, Iran's Hassan Rouhani said “there is no such program for a meeting.” He accused the Trump of escalating US/Iran tensions.
LVIV, Ukraine. When they first arrived in Lviv, a university rector told me, the students who came from Donetsk walked around in packs, speaking loudly in ...
The never-ending conflict is altering attitudes, leading to what has been called “the geopolitical divorce of the century”: the separation of two countries that have ...
President Trump on Tuesday criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council, saying that the United States won't rejoin it until he sees "real reform."
President Trump criticized the United Nations in a speech to the General Assembly Tuesday, telling world leaders the U.N. Human Rights Council is "a grave ...
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Trump arrives at U.N. struggling to sell his foreign policy record - POLITICO
President Donald Trump once expected that his brash and disruptive style of foreign policy, while horrifying to Washington elites, would be political asset with ...
President Trump on Tuesday strode to the podium at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City to “share the extraordinary progress” the United ...
Ivanka, 36, Eric, 34, and Tiffany, 24, were seen sitting together at the United Nations Headquarters in New York during President Donald Trump's speech.
Ivanka Trump arrived in New York City on Monday to attend the 2018 Concordia Annual Summit, which brings together some of the biggest businesses in the ...
Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) An Indonesian teen has been rescued after drifting at sea for 49 days on a floating fish trap and is back safely with his family, ...
A teenager survived 49 days at sea after a storm ripped his tiny vessel from its moorings and set him adrift into the Pacific Ocean. Aldi Novel Adilang recounted ...
A TEENAGER survived for almost 50 days in the ocean only by cooking fish over wood he took from his own vessel while drifting further and further from the ...
Donald Trump railed against what he called other countries' unfair trade practices during his address to the UN General Assembly — declaring that the US "will ...
In his second address to the U.N. General Assembly, President Trump criticized international organizations and alliances as unaccountable, but got pushback ...
President Donald Trump defended his administration's conflicts with major trading partners on Tuesday, telling world leaders the U.S. will act in its "national ...
President Donald Trump attacked China for its trade and economic practices during a speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Trump said that his ...
British publicist Rob Goldstone sent an email to Donald Trump Jr. that proclaimed "Russia and its government's support" for President Trump in the summer of 2016. Goldstone has become a surprisingly crucial part of the Russia imbroglio.Cameron Pollack/NPR
Rob Goldstone, the man who sent the email to Donald Trump Jr. that proclaimed "Russia and its government's support" for the Trump campaign, now says he ...
Rob Goldstone, who helped set up the infamous Trump Tower meeting, contradicted Jared Kushner's account of the gathering with a Russian attorney who had ...
Jacinda Ardern arrived in New York with her 3-month-old daughter, Neve, who has become the first-ever infant to attend the annual gathering of member ...
President Trump on Monday declared himself an "absolute no" on statehood for Puerto Rico as long as critics such as San Juan's mayor remain in office, the ...
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he would not support Puerto Rico's efforts to obtain statehood if San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz continued to ...
President Trump said in a radio interview broadcast Monday that he is an “absolute no” on statehood for Puerto Rico, citing his running feud with San Juan ...
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have arrived to celebrate the Coach Core Awards at Loughborough University today. The Duchess of Sussex donned a suit ...
When Meghan Markle made her debut alongside then-boyfriend Prince Harry exactly one year ago today, she dropped a giant clue that she was headed for the ...
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