By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO: A group of U.S. scientists and activists on Monday called for a global ban on the use of new...
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO: A group of U.S. scientists and activists on Monday called for a global ban on the use of new...
New York: AFP's Angelos Tzortzinis was named Time magazine's Wire Photographer of 2015 for his images documenting the refugee crisis in Greece as...
Brussels: The Balkan state of Montenegro will on Wednesday be formally invited to join the NATO military alliance, diplomatic sources said, a move...
Paris: Belgium called for the creation of a European intelligence agency Monday to counter the threat of jihadist violence in the wake of...
Niamey: Boko Haram activists raided a border village in Niger, killing four people and torching some 50 homes, a local official said on...
The home of Muhammad Abu Khdeir in Shuafat, Jerusalem, July 8, 2014 Jerusalem: A Jerusalem court found two Israelis guilty Monday of the...
Ottawa: BlackBerry said Monday it is exiting Pakistan rather than hand over its customers' private messages, after the government demanded access to encrypted...
The woman who allegedly sold her child after advertising him on the Internet hides from photographers. File photo Johannesburg: A South African mother...
Bangui, Central African Republic: Pope Francis on Monday said Christians and Muslims were "brothers" and urged them to reject hatred and violence as...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel talks to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu during an EU-Turkey summit at the EU Council building in Brussels on...
Michel Kafando Ouagadougou: First results are due Monday from Burkina Faso's presidential election aimed at setting the country on a fresh path after...
Syria on Monday denied ever using chemical weapons in its four-year-old civil war, telling a global watchdog it was cooperating fully with the...
Athens: Greece's central bank and police were on alert Monday to thwart any cyberattack against three Greek banks after a threat by hackers...
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates has said it is ready to commit ground troops against IS militants in Syria and described Russian...
Relations between Moscow and Ankara have deteriorated after Turkey shot down a Russian air force jet during an operation near the Syria-Turkey border...
The honor guards are reflected in the limousine carrying Russian President Vladimir Putin, center left, as he arrives for the COP21, United Nations...
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech for the opening day of the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near...
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu addresses a news conference after meeting NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the Alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, November...