Madrid - Catalonia's parliament is set to vote on the Spanish region's new president on Tuesday, according to the president of the legislature.   The Thursday announcement by Roger Torrent could...

Istanbul/Beirut - Tensions between Turkey and the United States mounted on Thursday as Turkish officials blasted Washington over its support for Kurdish militants in Syria and Ankara stepped up a...

Washington - The United States on Wednesday rejected Venezuela's snap presidential election, saying it would be neither free nor fair and would only deepen tensions. The State Department also said a...

  By Ergin Hava and Weedah Hamzah, dpa Istanbul/Beirut (dpa) – The Turkish army said late Tuesday that 260 "members of terrorist organizations" had been "neutralized" in its military offensive...

Porto Alegre, Brazil (dpa) – Tens of thousands of Brazilians on Tuesday demonstrated in the western city of Porto Alegre, demanding that former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva contest this year's...

Tel Aviv - US Vice President Mike Pence wrapped up his two-day Israel trip with a visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City - the holiest site for Jewish prayer - on Tuesday. Pence's visit...

Los Angeles - The action movie "Transformers: The last Knight" on Monday received nine Golden Raspberry nominations for Hollywood's annual worst-of-the-worst film awards.   The erotic romance...

Lauded abroad and reviled at home, a new film mixes ancient tribal custom with gay romance, leading to death threats for its makers and raising questions about "masculinity" in post-apartheid South...

Berlin – German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that her conservatives and the Social Demcrats (SPD) now face "a lot of work" to form a new government after an SPD conference voted to back coalition...