WASHINGTON -- A U.S. service member was killed and another wounded in an apparent insider attack in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the NATO mission in Afghanistan said. U.S. Army Gen. Scott Miller, commander of the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission, said…
GENEVA -- People smugglers are taking greater risks to ferry their human cargo toward Europe as Libya's coast guard intercepts more and more boats carrying migrants, increasing the likelihood that those on board may die during the Mediterranean journeys, the…
Pope Francis gives a short speech followed by the Angelus from the window of his apartment over St. Peter's Square on September 2, 2018 in Vatican City. Getty VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis recommends silence and prayer to react to…
Boko Haram militants, and at center, the man claiming to be the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, appear in a propaganda video disseminated online Jan. 20, 2015. KANO, Nigeria -- The death toll from a Boko Haram attack on a Nigerian…
A Malaysian Muslim women is silhouetted after reading the Koran during the holy month of Ramadan inside Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah mosque in Shah Alam outside Kuala Lumpur, in a July 14, 2014 file photo. REUTERS KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia…
CEO of JD.com Richard Liu Qiangdong (right) arrives at the Great Hall of the People to attend the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at The Great Hall of People on March 3, 2018 in Beijing,…
Libyans gather at the site of where a mortar shell landed in the capital Tripoli on Aug. 30, 2018. Getty BENGHAZI, Libya -- Libya's police say some 400 prisoners have escaped from a jail in the capital amid fighting between…
Kyaw Soe Oo after court appearance in Yangon on August 20, 2018 Getty YANGON, Myanmar -- A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison Monday for illegal possession of official documents. The ruling came amid mounting…
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sun. Aug. 2, 2018. Reuters Last Updated Sep 2, 2018 11:46 PM EDT RIO DE JANEIRO -- A massive fire tore through a…
A Somali soldier walks near the wreckage of vehicles at the scene of a blast outside the compound of a district headquarters in the capital Mogadishu, Somalia on Sun., Sept. 2, 2018. AP NAIROBI, Kenya — At least six people…
Projected path of Potential Tropical Storm Seven as of Sun., Sept. 2, 2018. National Hurricane Center Last Updated Sep 2, 2018 9:44 PM EDT Weather experts say heavy rainfall and winds are possible over portions of the central Gulf…
Wa Lone, center, gives two thumbs up as he is escorted by police to a courtroom for his on going trial in Yangon on July 17, 2018. Getty Two Reuters journalists accused of breaching Myanmar's state secrets law during their…
President Trump warned Canada on Saturday that it "will be out" of a revised North American trade agreement unless it's "fair" to the United States, and he threatened to scrap the current deal should Congress "interfere" with the negotiations. "There…
A man inspects the wreckage of a bus at the site of a deadly Saudi-led coalition airstrike on Thursday, in Saada, Yemen, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018. Hani Mohammed / AP SANAA, Yemen — A Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels…
Dutch police officers point their guns at a wounded 19-year-old man who was shot by police after allegedly stabbing two people in Amsterdam's Central Station, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. AP Last Updated Sep 1, 2018 1:39 PM EDT AMSTERDAM — Authorities…
For the first time in eight years, Palestinians are receiving international mail. Letters, packages, presents and even a wheelchair have arrived in the West Bank after Israel released 10 tons of undelivered mail to the Palestinian territory. A dusty mailroom…
For the first time in eight years, Palestinians are receiving international mail. Letters, packages, presents and even a wheelchair have arrived in the West Bank after Israel released 10 tons of undelivered mail to the Palestinian territory. A dusty mailroom…
Dutch police officers point their guns at a wounded 19-year-old man who was shot by police after allegedly stabbing two people in Amsterdam's Central Station, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. AP AMSTERDAM - Two people wounded in a knife attack at…
BERLIN — The world watched with alarm this week as far-right protesters in Germany went chasing after immigrants amid word that refugees from Iraq and Syria were suspected in a knife attack that killed a local man. The rise of…
File photo of a dolphin. A bottlenose dolphin named Zafar has been rubbing up against swimmers and boats in a coastal French town. Fethi Belaid / AFP/Getty Images A seaside town in northwest France has imposed a swimming and diving…
Dutch police officers near the scene of a stabbing attack near the central daily station in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Friday Aug. 31, 2018. Alex Furtula / AP Last Updated Aug 31, 2018 6:08 PM EDT AMSTERDAM — Police investigators in…
President Trump responded to a Toronto Star story about off-the-record comments he was alleged to have made about trade talks with Canada in an interview with Bloomberg News Thursday. The report said Mr. Trump had told Bloomberg in remarks that were…
With U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley at his side (L), U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a working lunch with ambassadors of countries on the UN Security Council at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 24,…
Last Updated Aug 31, 2018 5:00 PM EDT Aretha Franklin is being remembered Friday at a funeral service in her hometown of Detroit, Michigan. But more than 3,700 miles away, she was honored by a military band at London's Buckingham…
