ROME, ITALY- The World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday suspended food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, blaming a financing crisis caused by unhonoured cash...

TOKYO, JAPAN- Japan on Sunday delayed the launch of a space probe designed to mine an asteroid for a second time due to bad weather. The blast-off of Hayabusa2 was now pushed back by two days to 1:22...

DACCA, BANGLADESH, Shafiqul Alam- A Bangladesh court is expected to rule Monday on whether an award-winning British journalist is guilty of contempt after he questioned the assertion that three...

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND- Three cases of myiasis have been reported near Damascus, marking the first appearance of the flesh-eating maggot disease in Syria, UN health experts said Friday. Myiasis, an...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA- Syrian troops have killed 50 "terrorists" in an ambush in the largely rebel-controlled countryside east of Damascus, according to state media. "An army unit killed 50 terrorists in...

LONDON, Alice Ritchie- British detective writer P. D. James, the creator of the best-selling series featuring poetry-writing sleuth Adam Dalgliesh, died on Thursday at the age of 94. Faber and Faber,...

BAGHDAD, IRAQ- Iraqi security forces and allied tribesmen were battling Wednesday to defend the governor's office in Anbar province capital Ramadi from an attack by the Islamic State jihadist group,...

STRASBOURG, FRANCE, Danny Kemp- Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege called Wednesday for global efforts to end sexual violence as a weapon of war as he received the European Parliament's Sakharov rights...

WASHINGTON, US- Two young American men, one of whom is in the Middle East fighting, have been charged with supporting the Islamic State group, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Somali Americans...