A bipartisan group of senators wrote to the White House on Wednesday invoking the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to demand an investigation into the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and possible sanctions against Saudi Arabia.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will regain partial internet access following a seven-month ban instituted by the Ecuadorian government.
McSally responded to Sinema’s recently unearthed remarks that it was OK for Americans to go and fight for the Taliban against U.S. troops.
Algerian authorities have set a court date to try five Christians who have been accused of “inciting a Muslim to change his religion,” a criminal offence, and “performing religious worship in an unauthorized place.”
TEL AVIV – Amid sharp objections from the Palestinian leadership, the European Union on Sunday supported United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nikolay Mladenov’s efforts to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.
TEL AVIV – The U.S. is looking to oust the current Iranian regime and is the most hostile administration in the four decades since the founding of the Islamic Republic, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday.
The Metropolitan Police leader who stayed in his car with the doors locked while a radical Islamic terrorist murdered PC Keith Palmer outside Parliament is in line for a pension 12 times larger than the slain officer’s widow, according to reports.
“Just spoke to the King of Saudi Arabia who denies any knowledge of whatever may have happened ‘to our Saudi Arabian citizen,'” Trump wrote on Twitter. “He said that they are working closely with Turkey to find [an] answer.”
Contents: Saudi Arabia tries to recover from Khashoggi disappearance disaster; Negotiations follow the pattern of N. Korea’s 2010 torpedoing of S. Korean warship
DAMASCUS, Syria — Jordan and Syria agreed Sunday to reopen a vital border crossing between the two countries, three years after the commercial lifeline fell to rebel groups and traffic was halted.
EGYPT, Cairo — A court in Egypt on Sunday sentenced three people to death for their involvement in the killing of 10 policemen and for belonging to an extremist group, a judicial source said.
Israeli drones struck a spy device in southern Lebanon on Sunday night, according to Lebanese media reports. The Naharnet news site said the explosion was heard in the southern town of Zrariyeh, near the Litani River, amid “heavy overflights” by Israeli drones.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman stepped up their threats and warned Hamas on Sunday of a “fearsome blow” if quiet did not return to the Gaza border, but the security cabinet met without publicly issuing any new directives regarding Gaza.
(AFP) — Britain, France and Germany insisted Sunday that “light must be shed” on the whereabouts of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as they called for a credible investigation into his disappearance.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Saturday slammed the left-wing Israeli human rights group B’Tselem for accepting an unusual invitation from Bolivia to address the UN Security Council session later this week.
TEL AVIV – After kids helium balloons, kites and condoms next came the first ever incendiary “blimp” launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip, a terror group in the coastal enclave boasted.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has defended her deputy after he was roundly condemned for staying in his car with the doors locked during the Westminster terror attack.
Pope Francis canonized seven new saints Sunday, including Pope Paul VI, who concluded the Second Vatican Council, and Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was assassinated while celebrating Mass in 1980.
Contents: China defends million-prisoner ‘reeducation camps’ and Sinicization of Islam in Xinjiang; Brief history of China’s religions
The number of British Jews leaving the UK and seeking a new life in Israel has risen seven percent on last year’s figures, mirroring a sharp increase in Russian Jews also fleeing Europe.
Italian police pursued an inebriated Moroccan migrant at the wheel of a lorry on a miles-long chase late Thursday, as the man crashed into parked cars, road signs, fire hydrants, and even the doors of houses along the route.
Donald Trump’s warning that any involvement by Saudi Arabia in the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi would be met by “severe punishment” crashed the stock market in Riyadh on Sunday.
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has said Saudi Arabia could be behind the disappearance of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and warned Washington would inflict “severe punishment” if he was murdered.
A government study shared with Washington argues that Palestinian refugees number in the thousands, not the millions designated by a UN aid agency whose funding has been slashed by the Trump administration, an Israeli official said on Friday.
ISTANBUL — Turkish officials have an audio recording of the alleged killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi from the Apple Watch he wore when he walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul over a week ago, a pro-government Turkish newspaper reported Saturday.
Leading Venezuelan socialist Diosdado Cabello has declared that people “must respect” the decision of an opposition lawmaker to commit suicide, amid widespread claims that he was killed by Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime.
The devil’s mission is always to destroy, Pope Francis said Friday, but his worst assaults are not frontal attacks, but subtle, “well-mannered” persuasion.
The Italian government has announced the deportation of three African immigrants suspected of close ties with Islamist terrorist groups, including one who had expressed the desire to kill “white tourists” and “Christians.”
Contents: N. Korea’s Kim Jong-un met Pompeo in a new Rolls-Royce Phantom, violating sanctions; Growth of Ebola cases suddenly surges in DR Congo, threatening Uganda, Rwanda
(AFP) — The family of Asia Bibi, a Christian mother who faces execution for blasphemy in Pakistan, said they hoped the Supreme Court would free her.
Kurdish fighters in Syria say they have captured around 900 Islamic State fighters from various European countries and are now calling on those countries to take the jihadis back.
President Donald Trump said there was “no deal there at all” behind the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson from Turkish prison following his two-year detention.
When South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said on Wednesday her government was thinking about lifting some sanctions on North Korea, there were fears even a purely symbolic gesture along those lines could weaken the international coalition allied against North Korea’s nuclear missile program. Right on cue, Chinese state media jumped in and encouraged Seoul to lift unilateral sanctions as quickly as possible in a gesture of fellowship with Pyongyang and defiance toward Washington.
Several Taliban jihadis in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province accidentally blew themselves up while manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the top killer in the country, Khaama Press (KP) reported this week.
African news outlets reported on Friday that dissidents in Cameroon are petitioning the country’s elections management body to annul the October 7 presidential election, citing “massive fraud” in favor of President Paul Biya.
The Wall Street Journal on Friday published a lengthy article about the “new Cold War era with China,” relating a number of tense incidents that explain why so many Trump administration officials are sounding alarms about the Chinese.
