Nuclear-armed North Korea's launch of four missiles on Monday was a training exercise for a strike on US bases in Japan and supervised by leader Kim Jong-Un, Pyongyang's state media said Tuesday. Three of the four missiles came down provocatively ...

Washington and Tokyo sought Monday an emergency UN Security Council meeting after nuclear-armed North Korea fired a defiant salvo of ballistic missiles toward Japan. The call came after Pyongyang had earlier launched at least four missiles, with three ...

Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman says the German government "strongly rejected" the equation of modern Germany with Nazi Germany, adding that such comparisons minimized the crimes of the Nazis. A woman holding up signs against Turkish ...

President Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of tapping his phones at Trump Tower in a flurry of tweets early Saturday morning. Trump tweeted that the former president had been spying on him in October, a month before his election victory. 'Terrible!

WASHINGTON (AP) - Facing a new wave of questions about his ties to Russia, President Donald Trump is telling advisers and allies that he may shelve - at least temporarily - his plan to pursue a deal with Moscow on the Islamic State group and other ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Jeff Sessions may not have been clear about his contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 election, but this much is evident: The controversy over any Kremlin involvement in American politics is not going to ...

President Donald Trump is praising his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and accusing Democrats of conducting a "witch hunt" in their criticism of Sessions' testimony about his contact with the Russian ambassador during the presidential campaign ...

A White House official says President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and the man who would become national security adviser, Michael Flynn, met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. in December. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during ...

A White House official says President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and the man who would become national security adviser, Michael Flynn, met with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. in December. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during ...

Asked if he would step aside from Justice Department investigations into Russia's election-year computer hacking and other political meddling, Sessions said: 'Well, I've said that whenever it's appropriate I will recuse myself, no doubt about that.'.

The spectacle of unelected peers defying the will of the Commons to try to impose terms on Mrs May's negotiations caused fury among Brexiteers. Viscount Hailsham, who as Douglas Hogg served in Thatcher's Cabinet, and former deputy PM Lord Heseltine ...

BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) - Saudi Arabia pledged $1 billion in development finance for Indonesia and expanded cooperation in other areas, deepening ties with Southeast Asia's biggest economy as the Saudi king and a huge entourage arrived Wednesday for ...

BOGOR, Indonesia, March 1 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman held talks with Indonesia's president on Wednesday and signed a range of cooperation agreements at the beginning of a 12-day visit to the world's largest Muslim-majority country. The ...

Barack and Michelle Obama whipped the literary world into a frenzy with the news that the former president and first lady were getting to work on new books, and now they have found a publisher. Just a few hours after multiple people with knowledge of ...

The Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership -- the world's biggest individual prize -- drew a blank once again in finding a suitable laureate, it was announced Tuesday. The prize only goes to a democratically-elected African leader who ...

People living near a South Korean golf course on Tuesday sued to stop it hosting a controversial US missile system loathed by Beijing, lawyers said, after Chinese media issued a veiled threat of a consumer boycott over the plan. A subsidiary of retail ...

South Korean retail giant Lotte on Tuesday signed a deal to provide a golf course to host a controversial US missile defence system loathed by Beijing, Seoul's defence ministry said. Food- and retail-focussed Lotte Group, South Korea's fifth-biggest ...

The best picture Oscar was won by Moonlight after La La Land was mistakenly announced as the winner. The producers of the musical were concluding their speeches when it was announced that Moonlight was in fact the winner of the top prize of the night.

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir held talks in Baghdad with Iraq's leadership Saturday, the first such visit by a chief diplomat from the kingdom since 2003. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi received Jubeir and his accompanying delegation, ...

Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir was in Baghdad for talks on Saturday, the first such visit by a chief diplomat from the kingdom in years, Iraqi officials said. He met his Iraqi counterpart Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a foreign ministry official told AFP ...