Florida Senator Marco Rubio discusses the ongoing situation in Iraq and Iran. … Click to Continue »
January 7, 2020
In Guanica, near the epicenter, houses had been knocked off their foundations and a middle school (empty for the Christmas holiday) had collapsed. The government has confirmed one death due...
January 7, 2020
The European Union called Tuesday on Turkey to stop its “interference” in conflict-ravaged Libya and appealed to forces fighting in the northern African country to call a ceasefire around the...
January 7, 2020
Britain's defense secretary urged Iranian leaders on Tuesday to refrain from retaliating for the slaying of Gen. Qassem Soleimani in an American drone attack. Ben Wallace appealed for calm even...
January 7, 2020
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó overcame National Guards roadblocks and entered the building of the National Assembly on Tuesday to reestablish his role as head of the Venezuelan Congress, while...
January 7, 2020
A former Toronto pastor convicted in the death of his pregnant wife has been sentenced to 15 years behind bars. Philip Grandine was sentenced in a Toronto courtroom on Tuesday...
January 7, 2020
Federal prosecutors will pursue a death sentence against a northern Virginia gang leader accused of killing two teenagers. The U.S. attorney in Alexandria, G. Zachary Terwilliger, filed papers Monday indicating...
January 7, 2020
A new powerful earthquake in Puerto Rico has led to at least one death and extensive damage. … Click to Continue »
January 7, 2020
As Orthodox Jews worldwide conclude a grueling marathon of daily Talmud study, a growing number of Israeli women have joined the effort, spotlighting collapsing gender barriers in the male-dominated community....
January 7, 2020
A caravan of Venezuelan opposition lawmakers led by Juan Guaidó was blocked by security forces from entering the congress building on Tuesday. The opposition leader recognized by the U.S. as...
January 7, 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Syria on Tuesday and met officials including President Assad, state media reported. Putin's visit is the second to the war-torn country where his troops have...
January 7, 2020
A powerful roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying Pakistani security forces, killing two soldiers in the southwestern city of Quetta, the capital of the restive Baluchistan province, a police...
January 7, 2020
Hong Kong's health chief said Tuesday that a respiratory illness whose cause remains unknown will be added to an official list of diseases that medical practitioners are required to report...
January 7, 2020
Pakistan's air force said one if its aircraft crashed during training Tuesday in the eastern Punjab province, killing the two pilots. The FT-7 jet trainer went down in an open...
January 7, 2020
Zimbabwean authorities say they have retrieved the bodies of two park rangers who had arrested four poachers but were then thrown into Lake Kariba by the suspects. The bodies of...
January 7, 2020
A researcher with dual French-Iranian nationality held for months in a notorious Tehran prison will not be tried on espionage charges, her lawyer said Tuesday. But she and another French...
January 7, 2020
Puerto Rico was hit by a series of strong earthquakes and aftershocks early Tuesday that damaged buildings, cracked roads and left much of the island in the dark. Local media...
January 7, 2020
A death warrant was issued Tuesday for the four men convicted in the 2012 gang rape and murder of a young woman on a New Delhi bus that galvanized protests...
January 7, 2020
Charlie Hebdo's editor hasn't gone out by himself since Jan. 7, 2015. The widow of one of the satirical newspaper's cartoonists can't bear to pull down a note her husband...
January 7, 2020
The film “Joker” has topped the nominations for the British Academy film awards announced Tuesday. The movie about the origins of the comic book villain received 11 BAFTA nominations including...
January 7, 2020
Conservative Sebastian Kurz was sworn in Tuesday as Austria's chancellor, completing a comeback from the collapse of his previous government as the leader of a new and very different coalition,...
January 7, 2020
Poland's president is threatening to boycott a ceremony in Israel marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz if he is not allowed...
January 7, 2020
The U.S. government is warning ships across Mideast waterways crucial to global energy supplies that there's the “possibility of Iranian action against U.S. maritime interests” in the region. The U.S....
January 7, 2020
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, the largest in a series of quakes that have struck the U.S. territory in recent days and caused heavy damage...
January 7, 2020
A Maltese appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction against the German captain of a private ship that rescues migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. Claus Peter Reisch had been found...
January 7, 2020
The latest on U.S.-Iran tensions in the wake of the U.S. airstrike that killed Iran's top general (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Slovakia says it has moved its seven service...
January 7, 2020
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Puerto Rico before dawn on Tuesday, the largest in a series of quakes that have struck the U.S. territory in recent days and caused heavy damage...
January 7, 2020
A Cyprus court on Tuesday handed a four-month suspended sentence to a 19-year-old British woman who was found guilty of public mischief for making up claims that she was raped...
January 7, 2020
At least 50 people have been killed in a stampede at the burial procession for Qassem Soleimani, the top Iranian general killed by a US airstrike in Baghdad last week,...
January 7, 2020
The fentanyl crisis that has claimed growing numbers of lives in the United States has been showing up on the streets of Tijuana, where intravenous drug users are often unknowingly...
January 7, 2020
A strong earthquake hit off western Indonesian coast in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, but there were no immediate reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey reported the magnitude 6.2...
January 7, 2020
When Syrian President Bashar Assad made a rare visit to Tehran last year, the powerful Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani was there to greet him, along with Iran's supreme leader...
January 7, 2020
A Kenyan government official says four people are dead after a raid by suspected al-Shabab extremists in eastern Garissa County. Deputy county commissioner Kibet Bowen said Tuesday the gunmen targeted...
January 7, 2020
Germany plans to move some of its small troop contingent in Iraq to neighboring Jordan and Kuwait amid tensions over the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general in an...
January 7, 2020
In a quiet cul-de-sac of this major North Carolina city, two boys kicked a soccer ball as their father tended to the tiny scraped knee of a third. “You're strong,”...
January 7, 2020
Thousands of mourners prepared Tuesday to bury a top Iranian general killed by a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, demanding retaliation against America for a slaying that's drastically raised tensions across...
January 7, 2020
Wildfires ravaging Australia have taken a toll on the country's wildlife. Rae Harvey of Wild2Free lost her kangaroo sanctuary which she had built over 16 years. She had to evacuate...
January 7, 2020
The U.N. envoy for Libya is demanding an end to all foreign interference in the war-torn country, saying that a military solution is impossible and governments and mercenaries helping rival...
January 7, 2020
Sometimes Arshad Hussain disappears. He will be sitting on the bed, watching relatives, neighbors and journalists pour into his house when suddenly scenes of his dead son wash over him....
January 7, 2020
Bolstered by cooler weather and desperately needed rain, exhausted firefighters in Australia raced to shore up defenses against deadly wildfires before the blazes flare again within days when scorching temperatures...
