Trial opens of Istanbul New Year massacre gunman
An Uzbek citizen who confessed to killing 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub in a New Year gun attack claimed by the Islamic State extremist group goes on trial in Istanbul on Monday.
An Uzbek citizen who confessed to killing 39 people at an Istanbul nightclub in a New Year gun attack claimed by the Islamic State extremist group goes on trial in Istanbul on Monday.
The heaviest snowfall in four years in Britain caused travel mayhem Sunday, while more than 300 flights were cancelled at Germany's busiest airport and a ferry ran aground in the French port of Calais.
Russia launches on Friday its Yamal gas plant in Arctic Siberia, a gigantic project in one of the world's most remote areas, as the region becomes more accessible due to climate change.
A sea of around 45,000 supporters of Catalan independence demonstrated in Brussels on Thursday to back deposed president Carles Puigdemont and urge the EU to stop siding with Spain over the region's independence drive.
The US Congress, facing an end-of-week deadline, has passed a funding stopgap measure that averts a government shutdown and provides lawmakers and President Donald Trump with breathing room to strike a 2018 budget deal.
Two teens were killed in a shooting at their high school in the southwestern US state of New Mexico on Thursday, police said, adding that the assailant was dead.
World leaders will meet in Paris on Friday with Prime Minister Saad Hariri of Lebanon, which is seeking to escape the regional power struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia on Thursday slammed US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, calling the move "unjustified and irresponsible".
British citizens fighting for Islamic State should be located and killed and not allowed back into the country, new defence minister Gavin Williamson told the Daily Mail on Thursday.
South Korea's top negotiator on defense cost sharing talks with the United States said on Thursday that he will do his best to produce an outcome that will be a "win-win" for the two allies.
French President Emmanuel Macron has made his first official visit to Algeria, announcing that he came as a "friend" despite France's historically prickly relationship with its former colony.
Australian companies will be held responsible for bribery committed by employees and contractors under new laws introduced on Wednesday aimed at combating corporate crime that costs the country billions of dollars a year.
The US Senate confirmed White House deputy chief of staff Kirstjen Nielsen as Secretary of Homeland Security on Tuesday, putting her in charge of implementing the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
President Donald Trump will recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital on Wednesday, upending decades of careful US policy and ignoring dire warnings of a historic misstep that could trigger a surge of violence in the Middle East.
The UN General Assembly on Monday endorsed a Japanese antinuclear resolution by a wide margin, although fewer countries backed it than in previous years amid perceptions of its backpedaling on disarmament.
The United Nations has dispatched an envoy to North Korea for a rare visit aimed at defusing tensions over Pyongyang’s intercontinental ballistic missile launch, as the US and South Korea began joint military exercises condemned by North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.
Facing dark warnings of a historic misstep and widespread unrest, US President Donald Trump on Monday delayed a decision on whether to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and move the US embassy there.
Tens of thousands of Cubans held up portraits of Fidel Castro and waved flags as they marched to the revolutionary leader’s tomb on Monday to mark a year since his funeral.