Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions is trying to pull back funding for America's refugee program.
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano voiced concerns Thursday to the IAEA’s 35-nation board in Vienna, ahead of a final report on Tehran's 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 case dates back to 2000 when a Muslim woman was fired from her job for refusing to remove her headscarf.
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.
The government tightened the country's asylum rules last Friday in a bid to stem the sharp rise of arrivals.
The videos reportedly include one from the police vehicle of officer Jason Van Dyke, who was charged with McDonald's murder Tuesday.
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.
Syria’s Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Al-Moallem: There is full coordination between Syria and Russia on counterterrorism
In his first visit to Africa, Pope Francis asked Christian and Muslim leaders to engage in dialogue to guard against “barbarous” extremist attacks.
Japan, one of the world’s top 10 emitters of greenhouse gases, has pledged to assist emerging economies to the tune of $10.6 billion a year by 2020.
Tensions between the two escalated after two South Korean soldiers were injured in August in a land mine explosion in a demilitarized zone.
Conceptual artist Kameelah Rasheed was forced to leave a flight to Istanbul.
During a rally in South Carolina Tuesday, the Republican front-runner flailed and jerked around his hands in an apparent imitation of the New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski.
The suspect confessed to shooting five people at the ongoing protests in Minneapolis over the Nov. 15 fatal police shooting of Jamar Clark.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also said Turkey was deliberately trying to hurt relations between the two countries.
Asia's third-fastest growing economy was dragged by industry and agriculture and the first drop in remittances from overseas Filipinos in years.
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.
In a rare move in the Chinese legal system, the sentence was reduced for a 71-year-old journalist who was jailed for revealing a party campaign against Western ideas.
The Bureau of American Islamic Relations staged an armed protest outside an Islamic center in the Dallas suburb of Irving following the Paris attacks.
Africa will overtake South Asia as the region with the largest number of child brides, their number soaring to 310 million, more than 40 percent of the global total, in 2050.
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.
The White House said earlier this month that the president would sign the bill despite provisions that make the Guantanamo prison more difficult to close.
The men will be held until Monday as prosecutors determine whether to file charges.
Vice President Jojo Binay, Sen. Grace Poe and former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas are vying to succeed President Benigno Aquino III in May's election.
The Obama administration is pushing other nations to track and stem the flow of homegrown foreign fighters from Europe bound for Syria and Iraq, a source said.
Officer Jason Van Dyke is accused of fatally shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald just six seconds after emerging from his patrol car in October 2014.
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Governors in many states have vowed to block refugees from entering, but the federal government has pledged to bring 10,000 Syrians to the U.S. this fiscal year.
Manhattan's Port Authority terminal was evacuated Wednesday evening, amid Thanksgiving travel frenzy, while police removed a suspicious package.