The Italian navy organised the rescue of about 4400 migrants in waters off the Libyan coast on Saturday, prompted by requests for help received from nearly two dozen boats, in one of the big... Read more
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned on Thursday, hoping to strengthen his hold on power in snap elections after seven months in office in which he fought Greece’s creditors for a be... Read more
An Indonesian domestic flight with 54 people on board lost contact with air traffic control in Papua province Sunday afternoon, the nation’s search and rescue agency said on Twitter. The Tri... Read more
Former President Jimmy Carter has cancer, and it has spread to other parts of his body, he announced Wednesday. Carter, 90, had a “small mass” removed from his liver during surge... Read more
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday he had fired the mission chief in the Central African Republic, saying “enough is enough” after a string of allegations of child sex abus... Read more
Though Donald Trump retains his somewhat surprisingly strong grip as the Republican presidential front-runner, another non-politician is starting to rise to the top of the polls. As Princeto... Read more
The United States sent six F-16 jets and about 300 personnel to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey on Sunday, the U.S. military said, after Ankara agreed last month to allow American planes to laun... Read more
Two women shot at the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Monday and at least eight people were killed in a wave of separate attacks on Turkish security forces, weeks after Ankara launched a crack... Read more
Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip, right, at an event in Northern Ireland in June.AP Hundreds of Syrian Christians flee ISIS, activists say ISIS top brass is Iraqi army... Read more
The president’s Iran nuclear deal was praised by the scientists who include former White house advisers, Nobel laureates, and makers of nuclear arms Their support will come as a welcom... Read more
