BARACK OBAMA

World leaders plan to convene outside Paris Monday to discuss pledges from almost 200 countries to cut carbon emissions and slow the impact of global warming.

France's foreign minister on Friday called for the destruction of ISIS headquarters in the Syrian city of Raqqa, following the Nov. 13 Paris attacks.

At a ceremony memorializing victims of the attacks Nov. 13, the French president says the country will not let threats affect its way of life and vows to destroy ISIS.

Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions is trying to pull back funding for America's refugee program.

In a Thanksgiving address, U.S. President Barack Obama urged Americans to treat refugees with "compassion and care," likening their plight to that of the Pilgrims in 1620.

The British prime minister appealed for support from all sides in the Parliament for the country's airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Syria.

Japan and China have been facing territorial disputes over islands in the East China Sea, and Tokyo has plans to send 500 troops to guard the region amid increasing naval patrols by Beijing.

Malia and Sasha Obama laugh at jokes of their father during Turkey Pardon.

The French president, who has called for an international anti-ISIS coalition, is likely to push for greater Russian cooperation in the fight against the militant group.

Following the release of video footage of a black teeanger's death at the hands of a white police officer, the leaders called on the city's police superintendent to resign.

Arab officials and Iraqi residents say Kurdish forces are forcing out of their homes after recapturing cities from the Islamic State.

In a forum of presidential candidates, Sen. Grace Poe backed the government on taking China to court over the South China Sea dispute.

The president's statement came after a meeting Tuesday at which he and the French president discussed strategies for defeating the Islamic State group.

Russia's intense policing policies in the North Caucasus region could be helping ISIS recruiters, according to local residents.

"It is a little puzzling that I do this every year," Obama said last year, "but I will say that I enjoy it, because with all the tough stuff that swirls around in this office, it's nice once in a while to just say, 'Happy Thanksgiving.'"

Parisians have been asked not drive their cars ahead of the COP21 climate summit, and protests ahead of the event have been banned.

While Russian President Vladimir Putin calls it being “stabbed in the back,” his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama has said Turkey has the right to protect its borders.

French President François Hollande is meeting with world leaders to step up the offensive against the Islamic State group in response to the Paris attacks.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says he wants to create a pathway to citizenship for immigrants and end "militarization" along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In an email Tuesday, Jeh Johnson, U.S. secretary of homeland security, explained how new arrivals would be vetted by the U.S. government.

Russia’s conflicts in eastern Ukraine and Syria were already proving unsustainable. Now a downed warplane at the Syrian-Turkish border makes things even more complicated.