7+ hour, 29+ min ago   (223+ words) Protests have erupted across several cities in Syria after the government increased fuel prices, with demonstrators blocking a main highway for several hours. The government raised prices on Sunday by up to 40 percent on diesel and 28 percent on petrol, in…...

10+ hour, 20+ min ago   (376+ words) The test included firing different types of weapons simultaneously, likely aiming at developing the ability to overwhelm South Korean and U.S. air defenses. Experts say North Korea is not slowing its testing activities even after U.S. President Donald Trump recently scaled back…...

13+ hour, 4+ min ago   (335+ words) Mohammad Eslami’s exclusion from the IAEA conference is another sign of rapidly deteriorating relations between Iran and the West. The United States and Iran have resumed fighting, on and off, after a fragile ceasefire collapsed in July. Austria sought a…...

13+ hour, 4+ min ago   (496+ words) STOCKHOLM: Swedish Social Democratic Party leader Magdalena Andersson has told supporters that the opposition coalition is leading the polls, and if the results stand, “Sweden will get a new government”. Voting in Sweden’s election ended at 18:00 GMT on Sunday, and…...

20+ hour, 34+ min ago   (661+ words) Ukraine’s rail operator said former British prime minister Boris Johnson and ex-US CIA director David Petraeus were at a border train station nearby around the time the train was hit. But the strikes came as US President Donald Trump called…...

22+ hour, 41+ min ago   (218+ words) DOONBEG, Ireland (AFP): President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday the United ​States could stay in Iran and “keep the oil,” drawing a parallel with a US push to take control of a fifth of Venezuela’s vast oil reserves. On a…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (379+ words) PARIS (AFP): The leaders of France and Canada will next week visit France’s North Atlantic territory of Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon to underscore their support for national borders in the face of Donald Trump’s territorial ambitions, Paris said Sunday. The US president on…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (194+ words) Europe has long been the primary target for US President Donald Trump’s tirades against traditional allies. However, Asia got a taste of this treatment last month when he cut short, at very short notice, the annual “Ulchi Freedom Shield” US…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (279+ words) ISTANBUL (Reuters): Turkish authorities have detained 26 people and searched the offices of six LGBTQ+ associations in a series of raids that ​followed allegations of prostitution and obscenity, prosecutors said. The crackdown is ‌part of a campaign that the government says…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (661+ words) STOCKHOLM (AFP): Sweden began voting Sunday in a general election after a tight race that will see either the far-right enter government for the first time or the left-wing opposition reclaim power. Opposition leader Magdalena Andersson of the Social Democrats…...