Boris Johnson under pressure to explain police incident
Boris Johnson, the front-runner in the race to become Britain's next prime minister, was facing mounting calls Sunday to fully explain an incident in which police attended an alleged altercation at the London home he shares with his girlfriend.
Istanbul vote signals shift in Erdogan's dominance in Turkey
Change, hope, and a new beginning. That's the promise of Istanbul's newly elected mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.
Protectionism slammed as SE Asian leaders rally to trade pact
Southeast Asian leaders made an impassioned plea against protectionism at a regional summit in Bangkok Sunday, warning that a dragging US-China trade spat could hammer their export-led economies.
India rejects US report on attacks on minority Muslims
India on Sunday rejected a US State Department’s annual report on religious freedom that raised questions about the government’s inability to curb violent attacks on the country’s minority Muslims.
Kim Jong Un received 'personal letter' from Trump, says North Korean state media
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received a "personal letter" from US President Donald Trump, according to North Korean state news agency KCNA.
Fighting Ebola is hard but in the Congo mistrust and fear is making it harder
When Ebola first struck this city of more than a 100,000 people last September, many here didn't believe it was real.
Trump's Iran strikes U-turn underscores war and peace dilemma
President Donald Trump blinked. By calling off US forces poised Thursday night to launch retaliatory strikes on Iran, Trump stepped back from the brink of a dangerous escalation in the standoff -- but raised a flurry of immediate
Sobering statistics of ‘displaced’ people
JUNE 20 was observed as International Refugee Day. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is a United Nations programme with the mandate to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people and assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.
Inside Trump's Iran decision: 'I really watched him agonize over this'
The tension between President Donald Trump's bellicose rhetoric and his non-interventionist foreign policy instincts was on full display Thursday afternoon as he huddled in the Situation Room.
The Istanbul race is personal for Erdoğan. The result could transform Turkey
On a recent afternoon at a coffee house in the Istanbul neighborhood where Turkey's president grew up, Güngör Saytuğ was ruminating on his old friend's rise to power.
