Friday, September 22, 2017

Turkey's state-run news agency says a Syrian activist and her journalist daughter have been killed in their home in Istanbul.

Sweden's prosecution authority says it has charged three former executives with Swedish telecom company Telia with corruption involving contracts in Uzbekistan. Sweden's TT news agency says the defendants include Lars Nyberg, who was chief executive of the company then known as TeliaSonera for six years. He resigned in 2013 following an internal investigation into a deal made with a company run by the Uzbek president's daughter. Another defendant is Tero Kivisaari who was the company's business head for Eurasia.

Hundreds of pro-independence supporters in Catalonia are protesting outside a courthouse to demand the release of regional government officials arrested in a crackdown by Spanish authorities over a planned secession referendum.

It's Trump versus Trumpland. President Donald Trump's political muscles are getting a workout in a Republican runoff election in Alabama that has an awkward dynamic: He's campaigning for the establishment-backed …

German voters will elect their new parliament Sunday, but don't expect a new government to be in place next week. With the seats expected to be spread across up to …

President Donald Trump has added economic action to his fiery military threats against North Korea, authorizing stiffer new sanctions in response to the Koreans' nuclear weapons advances. Trump's latest steps …

Chancellor Angela Merkel appears all but certain to win a fourth term when Germans vote Sunday after a humdrum campaign produced few divisive issues but saw smaller parties gain support — including the nationalist, anti-migration Alternative for…

Who are you going to believe when it comes to the Republican health care bill?

A fishing boat carrying migrants sank off Turkey's coast in the Black Sea early Friday, killing at least four and leaving 20 others missing, the Turkish coast guard said. At …

The busiest border crossing in the United States will close this weekend to the more than 40,000 cars that pass through it daily to Mexico.

Prospects are good for a public shaming in the Equifax data breach, but it's unlikely Congress will institute sweeping new regulations after hackers accessed the personal information of an estimated 143 million Americans.

Spain's Interior Ministry says that a man has been arrested for alleged links to the extremist cell in the attacks in Barcelona and a nearby town.

What many expected to be a typical Thursday night snoozer between a couple of teams lacking star power turned into quite a thriller.

Vice President Mike Pence will make the Republican case for a federal tax code overhaul during a speech Friday.

Pakistan's military says the death toll from the overnight cross-border shooting by India in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir has risen to six. The latest incident comes as Pakistani …

On the surface it seems like more of the same: North Korea responds to another threat by U. S. President Donald Trump by calling him a "deranged" old man who will "pay dearly" for his insults.

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A new film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman is hitting theaters nationwide.