Ukraine now has a new president, as Volodymyr Zelenskiy was sworn into office on Monday — and the famous comedian immediately said one of his first ...
At his inauguration on Monday Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said he would dissolve the legislature for early parliamentary elections that were ...
A large explosion was heard in central Baghdad on Sunday night after an apparent rocket attack on the Iraqi capital's heavily fortified Green Zone but no ...
An apparent rocket attack has hit the high-security Green Zone. The area houses key government buildings and the United States embassy. Iraq's state-run ...
Leading Iraqi Shiite figures warned Monday against attempts to pull their country into a war between the U.S. and Iran, saying it would turn Iraq into a battlefield ...
Paris (CNN) Officers are still talking with a man who climbed up the side of the Eiffel Tower on Monday afternoon, triggering an evacuation of the famous ...
The Eiffel Tower in Paris has been evacuated and closed to visitors after someone tried to climb the monument.The official Twitter account for the tower wrote on ...
India's political parties have made many big promises in this election season - and most of them have focused on the economy. The country has enjoyed fast gr...
India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is to meet coalition partners to discuss a new government, two BJP sources said on Monday, after exit polls predicted ...
For the second time this month, the U.S. destroyer Preble sailed near islands claimed by China in the disputed South China Sea while the two countries engage ...
A US warship on Sunday sailed within 12 nautical miles of the disputed Scarborough Shoal -- territory claimed by the Chinese military -- in an attempt to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military said one of its warships sailed near the disputed Scarborough Shoal claimed by China in the South China Sea on ...
A U.S. Navy destroyer sailed within 12 miles of the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea on Monday in a challenge to China's maritime territorial ...
China accused the United States on Monday of harboring "extravagant expectations" for a trade deal, underlining the gulf between the two sides as U.S. action ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian military and its allies have begun a long, slow and violent campaign to recapture the last province in the country still under ...
The U.N. humanitarian chief says his worst fears that a full-scale military onslaught in northwestern Syria would "unleash a humanitarian nightmare unlike any ...
U.N. officials and dozens of international aid groups warned Friday that humanitarian conditions in Syria's northwest have reached a new "crisis point," as ...
Iran's foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday dismissed President Trump's tweeted “genocidal taunts,” warning him not to threaten the Islamic ...
President Trump fired a social media shot at the Iranian regime Sunday afternoon, vowing that war between Washington and Tehran would result in "the official ...
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump on Sunday ratcheted up his rhetoric toward Iran, warning that a fight with the United States would "be the official end ...
President Trump vowed, in a wide-ranging interview with Fox News, not to let Iran get nuclear weapons - but reiterated his reluctance to go to war. "I will not let ...
Samantha Vinograd writes that President Donald Trump's warmongering may have fatal consequences -- particularly since his national security team seems ...
Nigel Farage had milkshake thrown at him during a campaign walkabout. The Brexit Party leader had just given a short speech in Newcastle as part of a tour of ...
Nigel Farage has been hit by a milkshake and a nation holds up a mirror to itself. Is it acceptable to laugh at Nigel Farage having had a milkshake thrown at him?
A new poll has shown that members of the general public back the Latin-quoting Billy Bunter figure called Boris Johnson as the future leader of the Conservative ...
A DNA test revealed that Andre Gantois' father was a US serviceman who had fought his way across France after the D-Day landings, taken a bullet to the skull ...
With Beijing pushing as far as it can wherever it can in the era of President Xi Jinping, Australia has become a global case study in Chinese government ...
Voters rejected a sweeping Labor-party platform that urged Australia to move in a dramatically leftward direction on everything from higher taxes on retirement ...
Saturday's Australian election provided an unexpected result, reinstalling a conservative government that most expected to lose. So, what are the take-home ...
(CNN) A kilo is a kilo is a kilo, right? Wrong. Monday marks World Metrology Day, and this year's edition sees a big change in the way the kilogram unit is ...
The White House announced Sunday afternoon the first part of its Middle East peace proposal, what officials are calling an economic "workshop" to encourage ...
The president and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are taking a business approach to the Middle East, hoping to use other nations' money to secure a deal.
The White House announced on Sunday that it would host an “economic workshop” with Bahrain late next month, opening the door for the first stage of President ...
Tens of thousands of people are going hungry in Houthi-controlled Yemen as desperately needed food aid is diverted away from them, a CNN investigation ...
Austria's president on Sunday recommended a new election be held in early September, saying he wanted to restore trust in the government after a video ...
Swedish prosecutors heading the probe into a rape allegation against Julian Assange issued a formal detention order Monday against the WikiLeaks founder, ...
A top Swedish prosecutor on Monday formally asked that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be detained in absentia over the alleged rape of a woman in her ...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Swedish authorities on Monday issued a request for a detention order against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is now jailed ...
CAIRO — An explosion apparently targeting a bus filled with tourists near the pyramids of Giza in Egypt wounded at least 14 people on Sunday, according to ...
A tourist bus struck a roadside bomb on Sunday near the Giza pyramids, wounding at least 17 people, including tourists, Egyptian officials said. The officials said ...
An explosion targeting a tourist bus has injured at least 16 people near the Grand Egyptian Museum, next to the pyramids in Giza. South African tourists are ...
Egyptian officials say a roadside bomb hit a tourist bus near Egypt's world-famous Giza Pyramids. At least 17 people have been injured, seven of them are bel...
Middle East tensions appeared to ease over the weekend after the Trump administration moved to de-escalate two weeks of crisis, while Saudi Arabia and Iran ...
Is America headed for a war involving Iran? Actually, we're already mired in one. It's the unconscionable war in Yemen, where we are complicit in the deaths of ...
A top Saudi official has said that the kingdom does not want war, but warned that it would defend itself defend itself "with all force and determination" against Iran ...
Britain told Iran on Monday not to underestimate the resolve of the United States, warning that if American interests were attacked then the administration of ...
Across Iran's capital, the talk always seems to come back to how things may get worse. Battered by U.S. sanctions and its depreciating rial currency, Iran's 80 ...
Ryanair, Europe's biggest budget airline and the region's largest customer for Boeing Co.'s 737 MAX jets, warned profit would be dented this year by the plane's ...
Those mourning the end of “Game of Thrones” can always watch the cutthroat world of European airlines. Despite a decline in net profit for the fiscal year, ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A senior editor and 10 journalists at Russian daily newspaper Kommersant said on Monday they were resigning to protest against the ...
Ordered by the White House to the Persian Gulf, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has become a 100000-ton barometer of the tensions between Iran and ...
Al Jazeera has suspended two journalists over a video they produced that denied the facts of the Holocaust. The Qatari state-funded broadcaster had published ...
Al Jazeera Media Network suspended two journalists on Saturday over a video that claimed the Zionist movement benefited from the Holocaust and Jewish ...
Al Jazeera has taken down a video posted on its AJ+ Arabic channel claiming Israel is the Holocaust's “greatest beneficiary” and arguing that Jews exaggerated ...
Al Jazeera on Sunday suspended two journalists over a video that accused Jewish people of exploiting the Holocaust — and Israel of being the genocide's ...
Al Jazeera has suspended two of its journalists over a video that made a number of anti-Semitic statements, including claims that Jewish people exploited the ...
Swiss voters agreed on Sunday to tighten the country's gun laws in order to comply with European Union legislation that came into force following terrorist ...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is walking a tightrope as President Trump presses the House to scrap and replace the North American Free Trade Agreement ...
The governments of Canada and Mexico on Monday lifted tariffs on a slew of U.S goods including steel, aluminum, whiskey, and beef as the three nations push ...
WASHINGTON — Since his arrival in Washington, President Donald Trump has brought a different approach to trade, sparking fights with U.S. allies and ...
U.S. President Donald Trump said his tariffs on Chinese goods are causing companies to move production out of China to Vietnam and other countries in Asia, ...
President Trump has worked to sell voters on the idea that he can negotiate better trade pacts, and that only he is tough enough to walk away from a bad deal.
Conservative economist Stephen Moore, who pulled his name from consideration to serve on the Federal Reserve board, predicted that President Trump will ...
(CNN) He closes his eyes and the memories flood back. No clean water. No clothes. No shoes. With temperatures north of 45 degrees, his was a world about ...
Multiple Afghan security forces personnel were killed by US airstrikes this week while trying to come to the defense of Afghans under attack by the Taliban in ...
The suspects in the killings of at least five pro-democracy protesters in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, have been arrested, the military council says. Gen Mohamed ...
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The deputy leader of Sudan's military council voiced his enthusiasm for democratic elections in front of an audience of tribal leaders and ...
Evenings at Sudan's sit-in at army headquarters, where thousands have gathered to demand the military council hand power to civilians, has become an ...
The Latest on migration to Europe (all times local): 5:20 p.m. British and French authorities have stopped 29 migrants who tried to cross the English Channel is ...
Ireland's deputy prime minister has ruled out any renegotiation of the Brexit withdrawal deal if Theresa May is replaced as UK prime minister. Speaking on RTÉ ...
Nigel Farage's newly-created Brexit Party is threatening to wipe out Theresa May's Conservatives in the European Parliament elections. One reason behind the ...
A Saudi Arabian freighter allegedly carrying weapons that could be used in the war in Yemen has docked at the Italian port of Genoa, despite protests by harbor ...
GENOA, Italy (Reuters) - Italian unions refused on Monday to load electricity generators onto a Saudi Arabian ship with weapons on board in a protest against ...
Authorities in Turkey have issued detention warrants for 249 people as part of an investigation into alleged cheating during exams to recruit staff to the country's ...
Five people, including four Americans, were killed when a small plane crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from an airport in Honduras on Saturday, ...
FIVE people were killed when a light aeroplane crashed off near a holiday island in the Caribbean. The Canadian pilot along with four American citizens died ...
Four Americans perished on Saturday after a small plane plummeted into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Honduras, according to the U.S. State Department.
Seven men accused of posing as a self-styled "Sharia police" in Germany have gone on trial for the second time, on charges they violated rules on wearing ...
U.S. sanctions on oil-rich Venezuela appear to be taking hold, resulting in mile-long lines for fuel in the South American nation's second-largest city, Maracaibo.
U.S. sanctions on oil-rich Venezuela appear to be taking hold, resulting in mile-long lines for fuel in the South American nation's second-largest city, Maracaibo.
Soldiers oversaw rationing of gasoline at *service* stations in several parts of Venezuela on Sunday as worsening fuel shortages forced angry drivers to wait for ...
Drivers in Venezuela's second largest city, Maracaibo, are said to be waiting up to 24 hours and sleeping on their car roofs to fill up their cars after sanc...
Drivers in Venezuela's second largest city, Maracaibo, are said to be waiting up to 24 hours to fill up their cars after sanctions hit the state-run oil company ...
After losing protections under the DACA program, Gilberto Olivas-Bejarano was deported to his birth country. In the Mexican city of León, far from his former life, ...
Tens of thousands of demonstrators opposed to right-wing populism and nationalism took to the streets in a number of European cities before May 23-26 ...
Maria Butina — the Russian secret agent convicted of gathering intelligence on the National Rifle Association and other US groups — has been begging for ...
Nowhere is Donald Trump's imperial instinct more obvious than when it comes to the pardon power. This makes sense. The pardon power is a relic of the ...
President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Conrad Black, a former newspaper publisher who has written a flattering political biography of Trump onb May, ...
The Justice Department has requested the case files of accused war criminals from the Pentagon, a U.S. official tells CBS News national security correspondent ...
Descending a gold escalator in Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, Donald Trump announced that he was running for president. Now, nearly four years later, ...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - A major oil deal between Iraq and Exxon Mobil was “very close” but had been slowed by Exxon's decision on Saturday to ...
Employees of energy giant ExxonMobil have begun evacuating from an oil field in the southern Iraqi province of Basra but work at the field is still ongoing, Iraqi ...
The evacuation of some Exxon Mobil Corp. workers is “unacceptable and unwarranted” because it has nothing to do with the security situation in southern Iraq, ...
Exxon Mobil's decision to evacuate its foreign staff from the West Qurna 1 oilfield in southern Iraq on Saturday was "unacceptable and unjustified", Iraq's Oil ...
A new scandal in Austria that led to the collapse of the coalition government there served as a reminder that Russia has deep ties to many populist parties.
Italy's deputy prime minister has led a rally of far-right leaders from European countries. Matteo Salvini was joined in Milan by France's Marine Le Pen to p...
(MILAN) — Italy's anti-migrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini led a rally of right-wing populist leaders Saturday seeking historic results in next week's European ...
Britain's Prince Charles has agreed to meet with US President Donald Trump during his controversial state visit to the UK next month, CNN has learned, in a ...
Later this week, Queen Elizabeth will visit a replica of an original Sainsbury's grocery store in Covent Garden, in honor of the company's 150th anniversary.
The Roman banquet may well have been the original staging ground of gastronomic excess — think platters of peacock tongue and fried dormice, chased down ...
This image made from television footage made in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, Saturday Dec.1, 2001, shows John Walker Lindh at right, claiming to be an ...
To many, he was the homegrown face of terrorist treachery who left a comfortable Marin County life to train for jihad with Osama bin Laden and fight for ...
Little Prince Louis is already strutting around! In adorable new photos shared on Sunday, the 12-month-old can be seen marching around his mother Kate ...
The Duchess of Cambridge has arrived at the Chelsea Flower Show where she will unveil a garden she has helped design. The Duchess of Cambridge will ...
Beijing (CNN) Taiwan has lashed out at China's state media for attempting to take credit for the island's historic decision to legalize same-sex marriage.
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