President Trump and Xi Jinping are set to spend about 24 hours together at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s estate in Palm Beach, Fla. Credit Kevin Hagen for The New York Times.
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump’s assessment of the fight against Islamic State militants ignores substantial progress made against the group before he took office.
GAUHATI, India – The Dalai Lama consecrated a Buddhist monastery on Thursday in India’s remote northeast, amid Chinese warnings that the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader’s visit to a disputed border region would damage bilateral relations with India.
We met in the cavernous interior of the foreign affairs ministry where the old regime once plotted its campaigns against international sanctions and isolation.
BEIRUT – Syrian activists say the Islamic State group has killed 33 young men in eastern Syria, close to the border with Iraq. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says IS members slit the throats of the men, aged between 18 and 25 …
FILE PHOTO: A Filipino soldier patrols at the shore of Pagasa island (Thitu Island) in the Spratly group of islands in the South China Sea, west of Palawan, Philippines, May 11, 2015.
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Naresh Agrawal of the Samajwadi Party on Thursday said that social media was being used to defame Members of Parliament (MPs) and the government must come up with some mechanism to deal with the problem.
AMSTERDAM – In a simple act of solidarity, same-sex couples and many others across the Netherlands have held hands this week to protest the beating of two gay men – an attack that shook a nation that has long prided itself on its tolerance.
A California woman accused of killing the father of her two children is expected to be released from jail after posting an unprecedented $35 million bail raised by wealthy friends, family and business associates with ties to China.
JERUSALEM – A Palestinian rammed his vehicle into a group of people in the West Bank on Thursday morning, killing one Israeli and injured another, the Israeli military said.
Eritrean Orthodox Christian pilgrims baptized a baby in the West Bank in January. Credit Abir Sultan/European Pressphoto Agency. For years, more babies were born to Christian women than to women of any other religion, but not for much longer: Islam is …
Thailand’s king signed a new military-backed constitution on Thursday that strengthens the army’s hand in government and puts the country on the path to polls after three years of junta rule.
KOTA KINABALU: The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Central Women has called on the Barisan Nasional top leadership to exclude lawmaker Datuk Shabudin Yahya from its line-up of candidates in the next general election following his recent rape victim …
Russia’s Supreme Court is reviewing a government request to ban the Jehovah’s Witnesses and designate the religious group as an extremist organization.
A Georgia woman allegedly killed her paraplegic ex-boyfriend last month by dropping him off in the woods and leaving him to die in the freezing cold, PEOPLE confirms.
SYDNEY – Australia and New Zealand warned on Thursday that extremists may be planning an attack on the commemoration of a World War I campaign that is being held in Turkey this month.
(CNN) The US Navy has implemented a “safety pause” for its fleet of T-45 training jets, according to a US official, a move that comes just days after more than 100 instructional pilots refused to fly in protest of continuing issues with the aircraft’s …
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