U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis has called for a ceasefire in Yemen and the start of peace talks in the next 30 days. We want to see everybody around a peace table based on a ceasefire, based on a pullback from the border and then based on ceasing dropping of bombs, Mattis said Tuesday during

In a controversial announcement just days before hard-fought midterm elections, U.S. President Donald Trump said in comments made public Tuesday he plans to end the practice of granting citizenship to children born in the U.S. to non-citizens. “We’re the only country in the world where a person comes in and has a baby, and the

Slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi deserves a “dignified burial,” so “please hand over his body,” Daud Abdullah, the director of Middle East Monitor, is pleading Saudi authorities. Abdullah spoke to Anadolu Agency before a memorial event in London to remember Khashoggi, organized by not-for-profit press monitoring organization Middle East Monitor and the Al Sharq Forum, an

Far-right lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday, riding a wave of frustration over corruption and crime that brought a dramatic swing to the right in the world’s fourth-largest democracy. With 94 percent of ballots counted, Bolsonaro had 56 percent of the votes in the run-off election against left-wing hopeful Fernando Haddad of

As she campaigns for U.S. House, Omar is defending herself against a handful of recurrent controversies, including her marriage and immigration history. The show kept going even after the lights came up at a recent St. Louis Park screening of a documentary that tells the story of state Rep. Ilhan Omar’s historic election as America’s

A man in Florida has been arrested in connection with the suspected mail bombs sent to high profile figures, authorities said Friday morning. The arrest came after authorities responded to two more devices on Friday — one in Florida, the other in New York — pushing the total number of packages found by law enforcement

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan directed a series of pressing questions about the killing of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at Saudi authorities on Friday, demanding that they reveal his killer and the place his body has been hidden. Speaking at a meeting of the provincial leaders of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) in

UN inspectors are examining more than 2,500 AK-47 rifles and other guns seized by the crew of a U.S. destroyer off the coast of Yemen to determine whether the weapons originated in Iran or Somalia. U.S. authorities said they invited the UN inspectors on board on October 25 to determine whether the weapons provide proof

Military forces from 31 countries began NATO’s largest exercise in decades, stretching from the Baltic Sea to Iceland, on Thursday, practicing military maneuvers close to Russia, which itself held a huge military drill last month. As temperatures fell below freezing across training grounds in central Norway, giving a taste of what it means to defend

Addis Ababa – Ethiopia’s parliament has appointed a new president, Sahle-Work, Zewde, after the resignation of former leader Mulatu Teshome. Ms, Sahle-Work, is an expert on the United Nations, who has expertise and good arguments. A brief statement on the Balance of Peoples has emphasized the importance of maintaining peace in the country, according to