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Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Monday met in Ankara with Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial and arbitrary executions, to discuss the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Çavuşoğlu, Callamard and accompanying experts met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Official Residence in the Turkish capital. The U.N. delegation is also expected to meet […]

 M The first bomb went off in or near the cathedral of Jolo, followed by a second blast outside the compound as government forces responded to the attack [Philippine army/AFP] President Rodrigo Duterte visited the southern Philippines where twin bomb blasts at a Roman Catholic cathedral killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 100. Duterte met top defence, military […]

In this Tuesday, June 7, 2016 file photo, a photographer reflected in a golf cart at the the Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. (AP Photo) A dozen immigrant workers at one of President Donald Trump’s golf clubs in New York who are in the U.S. illegally were fired this month even […]

‘MANILA, Philippines (Update 5, 3:51 p.m.) — At least 27 people were killed when two bombs hit a cathedral in Jolo, Sulu, a stronghold of Islamist militants, the military said Sunday, days after voters backed the creation of a new Muslim autonomous region. The first explosion occurred inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at around 8:15 […]

Canadian Ambassador to China John McCallum said it “would be great for Canada” if the U.S. dropped it’s extradition request from Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.  (PAUL CHIASSON / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO) VANCOUVER—After his earlier comments on Meng Wanzhou drew calls for his firing, Canada’s ambassador to China is now arguing it would be “great” if the […]

Pompeo called for free and fair elections as soon as possible in a speech at the UNSC [Johannes Eisele/AFP] The US secretary of state has called on countries to “pick a side” on Venezuela, urging them to back opposition leader Juan Guaido and calling for free and fair elections as soon as possible in a speech at the […]

An aerial photo taken on Saturday by the Italian National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps shows the wreckages of a private plane (L) and of a helicopter in the northwestern Italian Alps. Photo: Mountain rescuer workers on Saturday recovered the bodies of two people, raising the death toll from a deadly collision between a helicopter […]

  Trump speaks about the government shutdown [Alex Edelman/AFP] The US Senate voted unanimously on Friday to end a 35-day partial federal government shutdown with legislation to temporarily fund many agencies, but without the $5.7bn President Donald Trump had demanded this year to help build a wall on the US-Mexico border. The House of Representatives is expected […]

From left, Patrick Stein, Curtis Allen and Gavin Wright, who were charged with plotting to bomb an apartment building filled with Somali immigrants in Garden City, Kan. SEDGWICK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE/AP WICHITA, Kan. — Three militia members face the possibility of life in prison for a foiled plot to massacre Muslims in southwest Kansas by […]

File photo of US envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad who is holding talks with Taliban representatives. (AP) The Taliban have appointed a co-founder of the movement as the new head of their political office in Doha, where talks have been held since Monday with US officials seeking to end 17 years of conflict in Afghanistan. […]