Pope defends migrants after clashes between Italy and rescue ships
Pope Francis said on Monday that “no one is exempt” from helping migrants, in an indirect rebuke of Italy’s hardline interior minister Matteo Salvini who...
Former Erdogan ally Babacan resigns from ruling AK Party
Former Turkish deputy prime minister Ali Babacan said on Monday he was resigning from President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party over “deep differences” with the party’s...
Afghans, Taliban talk in Qatar about a peaceful future as war rages at home
Wary representatives of Afghan society met Taliban officials in Qatar on Monday for a second day of talks, with bloody insurgent attacks back home casting...
UK minister to apologize to Ivanka Trump for ambassador’s leaked memos
Britain’s trade minister said on Monday he would apologize to U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka for a leak of confidential memos in which the...
Ambassador leaks are a ‘matter of regret’, Britain tells U.S.
Britain’s government has told Washington that leaks of memos in which the UK ambassador described U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration as “dysfunctional” were a matter...
Iran must be persuaded to stick to nuclear deal: Germany
Iran must be persuaded to stick to its commitments set by the 2015 nuclear deal, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry said on Monday,...
Iran threatens to restart centrifuges, ramp up enrichment in next nuclear steps
Iran threatened on Monday to restart deactivated centrifuges and sharply step up its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent purity as its next potential big...
Migrants disembark in Malta, rift with Italy deepens
Migrants on board a German rescue ship refused entry into Italy arrived in Valletta on Sunday on an Armed Forces of Malta vessel as the...
Deutsche Bank begins 18,000 job cull in $8.3 billion reinvention
Deutsche Bank laid off staff in Asia on Monday as it began cutting 18,000 jobs as part of a 7.4 billion euro ($8.3 billion) “reinvention”...
U.S. financier Epstein expected to be charged in sex trafficking case -source
Federal prosecutors in New York on Monday are expected to announce charges against financier Jeffrey Epstein related to sex trafficking of underage girls, a source...
