Japan is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission and will resume commercial whaling next year, a government spokesman said Wednesday, in a move expected to...

A federal judge ordered North Korea to pay more than $500 million on Monday in a wrongful death suit filed by the parents of Otto...

Thirty eight people, mostly Congolese soldiers, were hurt on Monday when an Antonov transport plane missed its landing at Beni in eastern DR Congo, military...

A Delta Air Lines flight from Beijing on Monday (Dec 24) made an emergency landing on a remote Alaskan island after a potential engine issue.There...

United States president Donald Trump was meeting with his Homeland Security secretary and other officials on Monday to discuss border security issues as a partial...

Canada's top diplomat on Saturday called on allies for support in securing the release of Canadians detained in China, noting that the arrests are a...

Moroccans gathered Saturday in front of the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Rabat in a candlelight vigil to honor two Scandinavian university students killed in...

France’s “yellow vest” protesters, who have brought chaos to Paris for weeks with their economic demands, turned out in sharply reduced numbers Saturday at the...

Banksy fans are flocking to the Welsh town of Port Talbot to see a new mural by the elusive British street artist depicting a child...

Irritated with the criticism and fallout from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ resignation, President Donald Trump on Sunday pushed the Pentagon chief out the door two...

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney on Sunday said the partial government shutdown gridlocking Washington could extend into the new year and the next Congress."It's...

A shooting which left one man dead and another seriously injured in central Vienna on Friday is thought to be linked to a Balkan mafia,...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is "counting on" a second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un...

Police dragged Catalan separatists off roads and arrested 13 during protests on Friday as the Spanish Cabinet met in the regional capital of Barcelona in...

Mexican and U.S. officials charged with carrying out a radical new change in U.S. immigration policy to process asylum seekers in Mexico say they have...

A partial federal shutdown took hold early Saturday after Democrats refused to meet U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands for $5 billion to start erecting his...

The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously approved the deployment of a U.N. advance team to monitor a ceasefire in Yemen’s Hodeidah region after...

Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant group, has resigned in protest over President...

Democratic Republic of Congo’s election board has postponed a long-anticipated presidential vote scheduled for Sunday by one week until Dec. 30 after a fire destroyed...

Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a chilling warning Thursday about the rising threat of a nuclear war, putting the blame squarely on the United States,...

The US Justice Department said on Friday (Dec 21) a Chinese national had been arrested for stealing trade secrets from the US-based petroleum company he...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis resigned Thursday (local time) after clashing with President Donald Trump over the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria and...

U.S. President Donald Trump is pulling all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, officials announced Wednesday as the president suddenly declared victory over the Islamic...

The Yomiuri ShimbunEvaluations of the Japan-U.S. relationship have drastically deteriorated among pollees on the Japanese side, according to a recent survey jointly conducted by The...

A federal judge Tuesday abruptly postponed the sentencing of President U.S. Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, declaring himself disgusted and disdainful of...

The number of journalists killed worldwide in retaliation for their work nearly doubled this year, according to an annual report by the Committee to Protect...

Penny Marshall, who indelibly starred in the top-rated sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” before becoming the trailblazing director of smash-hit big-screen comedies such as “Big” and...

A US court has removed from abeyance a lawsuit challenging work authorisation to H-4 visa holders after the Trump administration delayed a formal notification over...

A safety panel set up by US President Donald Trump in the wake of numerous school shootings recommended Tuesday that schools consider arming staff, using...

A federal judge Tuesday abruptly postponed the sentencing of President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, declaring himself disgusted and disdainful of Flynn’s...

Russia, Iran and Turkey are close to agreement on the composition of a Syrian constitutional committee that could pave the way for drafting a new...

French officials vowed Monday to quickly push tax cuts and a rise in the minimum wage through parliament in a bid to end the anti-government...

Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on social media was more widespread than previously thought and included attempts to divide Americans by race...

Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday she would bring her Brexit deal back to Parliament for a mid-January vote, pledging to get assurances from...

The British Cabinet met on Tuesday to discuss ramping up preparations for Britain’s departure from the European Union without a deal, after Prime Minister Theresa...

Two Chicago police officers were fatally struck by a train on Monday as they investigated a report of gunshots on the city's far South Side.Eduardo...

Sudan’s president on Sunday became the first Arab League leader to visit Syria since civil war erupted there nearly eight years ago.Omar Al-Bashir was greeted...

After months of delays, the U.S. Air Force is about to launch the first of a new generation of GPS satellites, designed to be more...

Several thousand people marched through Hungary’s capital Sunday in a fourth day of demonstrations against new laws that critics say restrict workers’ rights and undermine...

 As the shipping industry faces pressure to cut climate-altering greenhouse gases, one answer is blowing in the wind.European and U.S. tech companies, including one backed...

Meghan Markle's father directly appealed to Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Monday to intercede and end his estrangement from his daughter, the wife of Prince Harry.Former...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking in an interview that aired on Sunday, said for the first time that his Liberal government was looking for...

 Canada’s ambassador to China was given access Sunday to detained Canadian entrepreneur Michael Spavor six days after he was arrested, the country’s Global Affairs department...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday the Kremlin should play a leading role in Russian rap music and in youth culture, rather than trying...

Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late Saturday to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal, but critics say it is not...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, facing federal investigations into his travel, political activity and potential conflicts of interest, will be leaving the administration at year’s end,...

U.N. climate talks ending Saturday in Katowice, Poland, delivered a milestone rule book for the Paris climate treaty, but failed to dial up national efforts...

Ukraine chose the head of a new national Orthodox church on Saturday, marking an historic split from Russia that its leaders see as vital to...

British Prime Minister Theresa May warned she expects no "immediate breakthrough" on her Brexit deal at Thursday's EU summit and confirmed she would step down...

President Donald Trump played down hopes on Friday (Dec 14) for any imminent deal to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear arsenal."Many people...

Shaken and facing a prison term, U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer said Friday that Trump directed him to buy the silence of two...

The United States and Canada moved Friday to ease tensions between them over the case of a top Chinese technology executive whose arrest by Canadian...

China confirmed Thursday that it has detained two Canadian men, raising the stakes in a three-way dispute over a Chinese technology executive facing possible extradition...

The Trump administration on Thursday announced a sharp refocus of its Africa strategy to counter what it called the “predatory” practices of China and Russia,...

To say Andy Serkis has been through the wringer with his adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” is a bit of an understatement. It...

European Union leaders assured British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday that the Brexit treaty she agreed to last month but is struggling to get...

Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner is on the short-list of potential candidates for the president's next chief of staff, US media said...

In a wild Oval Office confrontation, President Donald Trump heatedly threatened to shut down the U.S. government Tuesday as he and Democratic leaders bickered over...

US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen delivered a blistering attack on his former boss as he was sentenced to three years in prison...

Female-led films have consistently outperformed male-led movies at the box office, according to a study initiated by Time’s Up, the organization formed by prominent women...

Dozens of North and South Korean soldiers crossed over the world’s most heavily armed border Wednesday as they inspected the sites of their rival’s front-line...

A high-speed train hit a railway engine and crashed into a pedestrian overpass at a station in the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday, killing four...

 British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday survived a confidence vote by her own MPs but lost the support of one third of her colleagues,...

Nobel laureates Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad called on the world to protect victims of wartime sexual violence in their Peace Prize acceptance speeches on...

Two Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers arrived in Venezuela on Monday, a deployment that comes amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions.Russia’s Defense Ministry said a pair of Tu-160...

Twenty million people in war-torn Yemen are hungry — a staggering 70 percent of the population and a 15 percent increase from last year —...

A Canadian court granted bail on Tuesday to a top Chinese executive arrested at the United States’ request in a case that has set off...

A 38-year-old Indian national has been arrested on charges of smuggling foreign nationals into the US for private financial gain, according to Department of Justice.Bhavin...

US President Donald Trump sees his impeachment as a "real possibility" over finance violations during the 2016 campaign, according to a media report.Impeachment talks have...

A gunman on a security watchlist killed three people and wounded a dozen others near the picturesque Christmas market in the historic French city of...

U.S. President Donald Trump could face impeachment and jail time if hush money payments reported by his former lawyer are proven to be campaign finance...

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Monday postponed a parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal to seek more concessions but the European Union refused to...

The new leader of Germany’s Christian Democrats (CDU) outlined plans on Sunday to change the party’s migrant policies before next year’s European election, signaling that...

Key pieces of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation appear to be falling into place.In three court filings Friday, prosecutors for the first time connected...

More than 150 countries will join a U.N. conference to adopt a global pact to better handle migrant flows, a senior U.N. official said on...

The stunning arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a figure at the heart of a global race to dominate high-tech industries, has kicked up an international political...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Germany's Angela Merkel Tuesday as she works to salvage her Brexit deal, the day after delaying a parliamentary...

President Donald Trump said Saturday that chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job by year’s end amid an expected West Wing reshuffling reflecting...

The FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia initially focused on four Americans and whether they were connected to Russian...

Pressure mounted on French President Emmanuel Macron to announce concrete measures to calm protests marked by violence when he addresses the nation Monday evening, and...

With a crucial parliamentary vote on Brexit looming, British Prime Minister Theresa May warned lawmakers Sunday that they could take Britain into “uncharted waters” and...

Jamal Khashoggi's final words were "I can't breathe," CNN said Sunday, citing a source who has read the transcript of an audio tape of the...

Pakistan continues to harbour terrorists that turn around and kill American soldiers, US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has said, asserting that Washington should...

Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, wanted in India on alleged fraud and money laundering charges amounting to an estimated Rs 9,000 crores, is set to...

French riot police fired tear gas canisters at “yellow vest” protesters in central Paris on Saturday at the start of a planned demonstration against the...

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a close ally of Angela Merkel, won a tight race to succeed her as party leader Friday, seeing off a longtime rival of...

U.S. President Donald Trump will tap Gen. Mark Milley as his next top military adviser, choosing a battle-hardened commander who has served as chief of...

The rumble of armored police trucks and the hiss of tear gas filled central Paris on Saturday, as French riot police fought to contain thousands...

An estimated 31,000 people joined "yellow vest" anti-government protests across France today, deputy interior minister Laurent Nunez said, adding that 700 people had been detained."At...

US President Donald Trump on Saturday announced his chief of staff John Kelly would be leaving the administration at the end of the year --...

CNN's New York offices were evacuated on Thursday night after a bomb threat, but no explosive was found and police later gave the all clear,...

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador proposed on Wednesday offering more work visas for Central Americans and said the United States should do the same,...

The United States bid goodbye to George H.W. Bush with high praise, cannon salutes and gentle humor Wednesday, celebrating the life of the Texan who...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers told investigators he wanted to “clean up the streets” of his Texas border...

For the first time, average Cubans became eligible to sign up for internet service for their mobile phones Thursday, a development long awaited on the...

U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, two White House officials said on Thursday,...

Germany’s Christian Democrats elected Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Friday to replace Angela Merkel as party leader, a decision that moves her into pole position to succeed...

China launched a ground-breaking mission Saturday to land a spacecraft on the largely unexplored far side of the moon, demonstrating its growing ambitions as a...

Britain’s Parliament dealt Prime Minister Theresa May’s government two bruising defeats Tuesday, and that was before lawmakers began an epic debate that will decide the...

The Trump administration raised doubts Tuesday about the substance of a U.S.-China trade cease-fire, contributing to a broad stock market plunge and intensifying fears of...

France’s prime minister on Tuesday suspended planned increases to fuel taxes for at least six months in response to weeks of sometimes violent protests, the...

A top leader of Switzerland’s main right-wing populist party has been chosen to take the Alpine country’s largely ceremonial presidency next year, and two women...

Canadian authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested the chief financial officer of China’s Huawei Technologies for possible extradition to the United States.China demanded her...

British lawmakers opened Round Two in their bruising battle with Prime Minister Theresa May’s government over her Brexit deal, as the release of previously secret...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned the United States that if it walks out of a key arms treaty and starts developing the type...

U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania paid their respects Monday to late President George H.W. Bush, whose remains lay in state in the...

The United States expects China to take immediate action to cut tariffs on U.S. car imports and end intellectual property theft and forced technology transfers...

Mexico’s newly inaugurated president kicked off his first Monday in office with something not seen in recent history — a news conference and a pledge...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday called for a “full and complete” sentence for his former lawyer Michael Cohen, accusing him of lying about Trump’s...

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government fought on Monday to defend its Brexit deal by outlining the legal basis for Parliament to support its plan...

Washington’s political elite paid tribute to former U.S. President George H.W. Bush as his body lay in state in the Capitol on Monday, evoking a...

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn provided “substantial” cooperation with its probe into possible...

Ukraine’s leader called on Germany and its allies to boost their naval presence in the Black Sea to deter Russia from further aggression in the...

 Imagine an airport where thousands of planes, empty of fuel, are left abandoned on the tarmac. That is what has been happening for decades with...

Norwegian cruise operator Hurtigruten plans to use dead fish to power some of its ships, it said on Nov. 26, as it seeks to reduce...

A mobile application launched in dozens of U.S. and Canadian cities on Monday measures the planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions of inner-city travel, its creators said,...

Germany must answer urgent, growing political concerns about the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project given Russia’s seizure of three Ukrainian ships and their...

The U.S. capital embraced George H.W. Bush in death Monday with solemn ceremony and high tributes to his service and decency, as the remains of...

The U.S. Consulate in Mexico’s second city, Guadalajara, was attacked with explosives hours before a visit to the country by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, on Saturday hailed the late George H.W. Bush’s role in helping end the Cold War and an arms race...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday condemned what he described as Iran’s testing of a medium-range ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple warheads...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed Saturday that the United States would continue supporting Saudi Arabia’s military campaign in Yemen, despite rising outrage over...

Veteran leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador took office as Mexican president on Saturday, vowing to see off a “rapacious” elite in a country struggling with...

Billionaire Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis faced renewed pressure over his business dealings on Saturday after a European Union legal document said he has a...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday she was focused on persuading lawmakers to back her European Union divorce deal at a vote in...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held bilateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Buenos Aires on Friday and expressed his view that the government should...

Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has died at the age of 94.Family spokesman Jim McGrath says Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, about...

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday expressed his “deep condolences” to the family of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush and all Americans following...

Fissures on trade, climate change and Ukraine divided world leaders Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump came under sustained fire and Saudi Arabia’s de facto...

 U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held high-stakes trade talks in Argentina on Saturday, and both sides signaled they made progress toward...

The U.S. Army is investing millions of dollars in experimental exoskeleton technology to make soldiers stronger and more resilient, in what experts say is part...

Starving, hiding in the bush or with armed groups, two in three children in the Central African Republic need aid, the United Nations said on...

UNESCO has declared reggae, the Jamaican music that spread across the world with its calls for social justice, peace and love, to be a global...

Divisions among the world leading economies emerged from the moment their leaders gathered Friday in Argentina: U.S. President Donald Trump struck his own deals and...

U.S. President Donald Trump signed a revised North American trade pact with the leaders of Canada and Mexico on Friday, declaring the deal a major...

Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday in Anchorage, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a warning...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and French President Emmanuel Macron held bilateral talks on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires on...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will miss the opening of the G20 summit in Argentina after her plane was forced to make an emergency landing in...

The population of unauthorized immigrants in the United States fell to 10.7 million in 2016, its lowest level since 2004, due largely to a decline...

France’s domestic intelligence agency is investigating an employee of the French Senate who is suspected of spying for North Korea, a judicial official said Tuesday.Senate...

Torrential rain and gale force winds lashed Australia’s biggest city Sydney on Wednesday, causing commuter chaos, flooding streets, railway stations and homes, grounding flights and...

U.S. President Donald Trump is strongly defending the U.S. use of tear gas at the Mexico border to repel a crowd of migrants that included...

Several senior European politicians on Tuesday raised the possibility of new sanctions against Russia to punish it for capturing three Ukrainian vessels at sea, an...

Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith won a divisive Mississippi runoff Tuesday, surviving a video-recorded remark decried as racist and defeating a former federal official who...

Somalia was hit by two violent attacks Monday, one killing an Islamic cleric and 17 of his followers for playing music and a second killing...

Cheers and applause erupted at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as the waist-high unmanned lander InSight touched down on Mars, capping a nearly seven-year...

Egypt has created a new high-powered human rights watchdog agency, but its primary mission isn’t to protect Egyptians from violations. Instead, the body is foremost...

President Donald Trump rallied voters Monday for Republican Senate appointee Cindy Hyde-Smith, who has found herself in a closer-than-expected runoff contest after comments she made...

U.S. Representative Mia Love, the only black Republican woman in Congress, lashed out on Monday at President Donald Trump and her party, saying in her...

Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was “the boss” of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, a witness told jurors in the accused Mexican drug lord’s trial in Brooklyn federal...