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President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's given his advisers instructions to obliterate Iran if it assassinates him.“If they did that t...

Former tennis world number one Simona Halep announced her retirement on Tuesday after her first-round defeat at the WTA Cluj-Napoca tourname...

The Trump administration is assessing whether it could take up El Salvador's offer to house U.S. citizens convicted of crimes in its jails,...

China on Tuesday slapped tariffs on U.S. imports in a swift response to new U.S. duties on Chinese goods, renewing a trade war between the w...

South Korea aims to rebuild its aviation safety system from scratch, the transport ministry said on Tuesday, launching a new committee to im...

European Union leaders agreed on Monday to do more to bolster their defenses against Russia and other threats by hiking spending and filling...

Cryptocurrency prices took a hit from the prospect of a trade war between the U.S. and its major trading partners, with some well-known digi...

Taiwanese actor Barbie Hsu, who rose to fame across East Asia as the romantic lead in the 2001 television drama "Meteor Garden", has died of...

U.S. President Donald Trump has slapped new tariffs on Chinese goods, partly in response to Beijing's alleged role in a deadly opioid epidem...

Fast-moving floodwaters rose Monday in northeastern Australia after forcing many to flee, blacking out homes, and sweeping away a chunk of a...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he would cut off all future funding to South Africa because he claimed, without evidence, th...

Demonstrators descended on Berlin Sunday to protest last week's decision by Germany's conservatives to make overtures to the far right ahead...

Performers acting as demons dance during the annual mamemaki, a ceremony held to ward off evil spirits and bring good luck, at the main hall...

Shohei Ohtani pitching for the Los Angeles Dodgers in May is "about right,” manager Dave Roberts said Saturday at the team's annual fan fest...

Canada will retaliate against President Donald Trump's new tariffs by imposing 25% tariffs on U.S. goods from drinks to appliances, Prime Mi...

Thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires Saturday in defense of hard-fought diversity advances and to denounce recent ant...

US Democrats picked Ken Martin as their new leader Saturday, who now takes on the task of rebuilding a party still reeling from last year's...

Scenes featuring a Japanese comedian in a program to be aired by Nippon Television Network Corp have been cut following a media report alleg...

Peace prospects look bleak in Myanmar as a civil war rages despite international pressure on the military four years after it seized power f...

A medical transport jet crashed in Philadelphia on Friday about 30 seconds after taking off, setting homes ablaze, strewing debris and rattl...

A number of U.S. government web pages changed or went dark Friday as agencies scrambled to comply with President Donald Trump's executive or...

Japan's Keiichi Sato soars through the air during training for a ski jumping World Cup mixed team HS147 event in Willingen, Germany, on Frid...

Asia markets are mostly higher on Friday following gains on Wall Street driven by Tesla, IBM and Meta Platforms after strong profit reports....

U.S. authorities said on Thursday it was not yet clear why a regional jet and a U.S. Army helicopter collided at a Washington airport, killi...

Police arrested a total of six people in connection with a deadly explosion of illegal fireworks in a Honolulu neighborhood on New Year’s Ev...