Other countries welcome the investment but governments including the United States, Russia and India have expressed unease Beijing also might be using the effort to increase its political stature....
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said Macron's victory was also a "clear rejection" of a "dangerous retreat plan for Europe". Mr Macron has said he is aiming to secure an absolute majority in t...
By all means, the forum, which also features a round-table summit of global leaders on Monday, is one of the premium gatherings in today's world, and the most prestigious worldwide assembly China has ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping discussed the Korean situation on the sidelines of the meeting and "both parties expressed their concern over the escalation of ...
The move, which forces passengers to put their devices into checked baggage, came as counter-terror officials developed concerns that jihadist groups were devising bombs disguised as batteries in cons...
The executive board of the UN's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Tuesday passed a resolution describing Jerusalem as "occupied" and challenging Israeli sovereignty over ...
Macron's year-old Republic on the Move party does not have any seats in the current parliament but it hopes in June to secure a majority that will allow him to push through economic reforms for revivi...
The company owned by Jared Kushner's family apologized on Monday for touting the son-in-law of President Trump in a sales pitch during an investor conference over the weekend in China. The Kushner Com...
The average age of those selected was 46. Macron won after one of the most unpredictable elections in modern history marked by scandal, repeated surprises and a last-minute hacking attack on his cam...
Japan and South Korea condemned the launch. The White House says President Donald Trump "cannot imagine that Russia is pleased" with North Korea's latest missile test because the missile landed s...
Trump said earlier this month that he would be "honoured" to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "under the right circumstances". Japanese officials said it reached an unusually high altitude of 1,24...
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was challenged on a tweet from President Trump about former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper's characterization of the Russian Federation inves...
Little is known about Hasib, a former Afghan Taliban commander who switched his loyalty to the Islamic State and took over the Afghanistan affiliate when Khan was killed . Their part in the Afghan co...
The announcement came from the Russian state media but the White House did not immediately confirm the planned pow-wow. "We took the information we had as best we have it and got it out to the America...
The North has staged two atomic tests and dozens of missile launches since the start of past year in its quest to develop a nuclear warhead capable of reaching the US. The type of missile launched tod...
Inside Mosul Iraqi forces backed by the United States -led coalition are slowly closing in on a small cluster of neighborhoods in the city's west held by the extremist group. The source of the attack ...
All 577 seats in France's National Assembly will be up for grabs. German Minster of State for Europe Michael Roth applauded Macron's win, but said the result was marred by the fact that 11 milli...
Bexar County and city leaders are asking Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to veto Senate Bill 4 , the bill that bans so-called "sanctuary cities". Now, the controversial Senate Bill Four, nicknamed the "show...
North Korea on Sunday launched a ballistic missile which flew around 700 km, the South Korean Joints Chief of Staff (JCS) said . South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who took office on Wednesday, he...
The United States maintains our ironclad commitment to stand with our allies in the face of the serious threat posed by North Korea. It added that the new launch should serve as a call for stronger ...
The South Korean election comes aimed heightened tensions between Kim Jong-un's regime and Donald Trump's administration. Moon says that the security benefits of THAAD, or Terminal High Altitude Are...
In Lincolnshire, where Ukip leader Paul Nuttall is standing in the general election in Boston and Skegness, the party went from being the official Opposition to having no seats at all as the Tories g...
The launch is a direct challenge to the new South Korean president elected four days ago and comes as US, Japanese and European navies gather for joint war games in the Pacific. In Washington, the Whi...
The launch, at 5:27 a.m. Seoul time (2027 GMT Saturday), came two weeks after North Korea fired a missile that disintegrated minutes into flight, marking its fourth consecutive failure since March. ma...
Instead, Trump chose to play up former director of national intelligence James Clapper's acknowledgement during the same hearing that he was not aware of any evidence of collusion between the presid...
Season series: Spurs , 2-1. The top seed Golden State Warriors are going against the second seed San Antonio Spurs. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said on Saturday that Leonard will be available af...
The statement also noted the missile's proximity to Russia: "With the missile impacting so close to Russian soil - in fact, closer to Russia than to Japan - the President can not imagine that Russia i...
It's like an answer to prayer, because I felt that always they would be canonised", said Agnes Walsh who had travelled from Killarney, Ireland. In Fatima, Pope Francis said that "we have gathered he...
Marchers tried to reach the National Assembly legislature, where the opposition has a majority, to protest Maduro's creation of an alternative "popular" congress viewed by foes as a ruse to dodge ...
President Donald Trump's sour relationship with recently axed FBI Director James Comey just got worse. Trump said in one of a string of Twitter messages. For the first time since an Oval Office taping...
