With tones of defiance, senior Iranian officials have vowed that Tehran aims to bypass financial sanctions soon to be re-imposed on the Islamic Republic’s oil and banking sectors by the Trump administration.
The Islamic State hold on territory has been broken, but Iraq now faces another existential threat as it battles neighboring Iran and Turkey for access to an increasingly scarce flow of water to the once-flourishing Fertile Crescent running down the spine of the country.
Thousands of Indians gathered Friday as the funeral pyre was lit for former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who was respected across the political spectrum.
Russia has filed a formal complaint with the Trump administration in response to U.S. authorities seizing several of its diplomatic missions and consulates, including facilities in four states and Washington, D.C., Moscow said Friday.
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Italy's firebrand interior minister threatened Sunday to return to Libya 177 migrants who have been aboard an Italian coast guard ship for days following another standoff with Malta.
The co-founder of the fashion brand Superdry said Sunday he has donated 1 million pounds ($1.28 million) to a group seeking a new referendum on Britain's departure from the European Union, as the U.K. government prepares to publish its assessment of the impact of leaving the bloc without an agreement on future relations.
President Trump's former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos deserves to spend up to six months in prison for lying to FBI agents investigating Russia's involvement in the 2016 race, special counsel Robert Mueller said in a court filing Friday.
Pakistan's Foreign Ministry and officials say Indian troops have killed a Pakistani villager and wounded two others in "unprovoked firing" in the Himalayan region of Kashmir.
In Britain, there is a growing sense of Brexit deja vu.
The window has opened for county election boards to begin the official count in Ohio's deadlocked special congressional election.
Turkey's president said Saturday his country will stand strong against an "attempted economic coup" amid heightened tensions with the United States.
Russian President Vladimir Putin made a flying visit to Austria to attend the wedding of the country's foreign minister Saturday before heading to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Pakistan's cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan was sworn in as prime minister on Saturday despite protests by opposition parties, which accuse the security services of intervening on his behalf in last month's elections.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a new report that options to protect Palestinian civilians under Israeli occupation range from establishing an armed military or police force to deploying civilian observers or beefing up the U.N. presence on the ground.
