BOGOR (Reuters) - Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said during his visit to Indonesia on Sunday that it is important to solve the South China Sea conflict peacefully. "About the South China Sea conflict, we assert the importance of the principle of solving a dispute peacefully," Abe said after
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to improve and expand its naval and air bases in Syria, Interfax news agency reported on Sunday, citing an unnamed source, as Moscow cements its presence in the Middle Eastern country, its only overseas military deployment. The source told Interfax that Russia will start
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah on Sunday swore in a new government following a reshuffle but retained Hani Mulki as prime minister, state television reported on Sunday. The second reshuffle since Mulki was appointed last May was intended to give him more scope for economic reforms and to
The first thing to remember about Donald Trump’s Great Wall: It’s not a fence. The exchange came as House Republicans continue to hash out details with the incoming administration on a plan to resurrect parts of a border-control law passed by George W. Bush, according to Politico. In the United States
Colleges now face steeper barriers, including a larger bill for security, if they want to invite a controversial speaker to campus.
When Donald Trump takes the oath of office on Friday, Shylexis Robinson will lend a hand with the festivities. Every four years, the inauguration promises a national audience to performers lucky enough to land a spot. In December, the Monitor reported that opera singer Andrea Bocelli cancelled his
It is Raghad Abada’s first glimpse of her hometown since August 2014, when she and her husband gathered their children, grabbed a few documents, and fled for their lives ahead of the Islamic State (IS) invasion. The road is blocked by a charred sedan and trailer, remnants of the defenses IS militants
LONDON (AP) — British anti-European Union politician Nigel Farage says he will attend Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. president.
France's foreign minister said on Sunday a proposal by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to move the American embassy to Jerusalem would be a provocation with serious consequences. "It would have extremely serious consequences and it's not the first time that it's on the agenda of a
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military struck a Hamas post in the southern Gaza Strip Sunday in response to a Palestinian attack on an Israeli military vehicle, the military said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday dismissed as "futile" an international conference in Paris seeking to revive the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process. "The conference convening today in Paris is a futile conference," he told ministers at the start of a weekly
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Sunday that if US President-elect Donald Trump moves the American embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem it would have "extremely serious consequences". Speaking as 70 countries gather in Paris to try to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is demanding that "every possible measure" be taken to protect young refugees as he marks the church's World Day of Migrants a day after the latest Mediterranean migrant shipwreck.
SIGULDA, Latvia (AP) — Russia's Semyon Pavlichenko led a Russian one-two in a round of the luge World Cup on Sunday ahead of Roman Repilov.
Congolese rebels who had taken refuge in neighbouring Uganda crossed the border overnight armed with weapons, the DR Congo government said on Sunday. About 200 former members of M23, an ethnic Tutsi group defeated by the Congolese army in 2013, arrived from Uganda and took over the village of Ishasha
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Brazil have entered two prisons in the country's northern state of Rio Grande do Norte where a riot left at least 10 inmates dead on Saturday, authorities said Sunday.
BEIJING (AP) — China's foreign ministry on Sunday again rejected President-elect Donald Trump's suggestion that he might use American policy on Taiwan as a bargaining chip between the two sides. Spokesman Lu Kang said Sunday that the "one China" policy is "non-negotiable."
KYEE KAN PYIN, Myanmar (AP) — Muslim villagers in western Myanmar's troubled Rakhine state said Sunday that they hope positive change will result from a U.N. envoy's visit to the region, where soldiers are accused of widespread abuses against minority Muslims, including murder, rape and the burning
By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - Five more bodies have been recovered from the Ganges river after an overloaded boat capsized near the capital of eastern India's Bihar state, taking the death toll to 24, officials said on Sunday as rescuers ended search operations. The boat was carrying
FRANKFURT/DUBAI (Reuters) - A flight from Oman to Germany operated by Lufthansa's budget unit Eurowings will head home after getting the all clear by authorities in Kuwait where it made an emergency landing over a bomb scare, spokespeople for the airlines said. A Lufthansa spokesman confirmed that
Five migrants have been found dead off the southern Spanish coast this weekend, a Spanish police spokeswoman said on Sunday, after another at least eight were discovered off the coast of Libya on Saturday. At least eight migrants died when their boat capsized off the coast of Libya on Saturday. Spanish
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Naval forces of the United Arab Emirates and Britain have started an exercise amid Gulf Arab countries' continued tensions with Iran.
PARIS (AP) — Fearing a new eruption of violence in the Middle East, more than 70 world diplomats gathered in Paris on Sunday to push for renewed peace talks that would lead to a Palestinian state.
US "hostility" to Iran is growing day by day despite Tehran's nuclear deal, a senior Iranian official said Sunday, ahead of the first anniversary of the historic accord. "The United States has done whatever it can to slow down Iran's progress" after the deal, said Deputy
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan's interior and foreign ministers have been replaced in a Cabinet reshuffle, at a time of public discontent with perceived security lapses and rising unemployment.