Taliban denounce Afghan election, warn that rallies face attack
The Taliban on Tuesday denounced as a sham a presidential election due next month, saying their fighters would do everything they could to block it,...
In Lebanon, a monastery brings together Christians scattered by war
The last time Samuel Botros stepped into the Lebanese monastery of Saint Anthony of Qozhaya was in 1978. He was 24, newly married, and the...
‘Ready and willing’ to do a Brexit deal, Britain tells EU
Britain is “ready and willing” to do a deal to leave the European Union if Brussels renegotiates the agreement, a senior government source said on...
Pact is reached in Mozambique but prospects for peace still uncertain
With a handshake, Mozambique’s leaders hope to close the book on a decades-long conflict on Tuesday. But an election in October and new causes of...
‘Don’t come if you like gold’: Turks march against planned gold mine
Thousands of Turks including opposition lawmakers staged a peaceful and unusually large protest on the outskirts of a small western town on Monday against what...
Any Turkish incursion into Syria ‘unacceptable,’ will prevent it: Pentagon chief
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday any Turkish operation into northern Syria would be “unacceptable” and the United States would prevent unilateral incursions,...
BA plane forced to make emergency landing after cabin fills with smoke
Passengers and crew had to be evacuated from a smoke-filled British Airways plane at Spain’s Valencia airport after the cabin filled with smoke. Rough cut...
‘We will make them pay’: North Korea launches missiles, condemns U.S.-South Korea drills
North Korea fired missiles into the sea off its east coast for the fourth time in less than two weeks, South Korea said on Tuesday,...
Sierra Leone community’s suit against diamond miner shows activist trend
At the foot of a slag heap some 40 meters high, Adi Kalie Bangura showed the black welts that dot his arms and legs that...
War with Iran is the mother of all wars: Iran president
War with Iran is the mother of all wars, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday in a speech broadcast live on state TV, warning...