London - Abbas Edalat, a British-Iranian professor at London's Imperial College, has been released after spending eight months in jail in Iran, a British Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed on...

Washington (dpa) - Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan will "eradicate" the forces of Islamic State in Syria, US President Donald Trump said late Sunday.   Erdogan "has very strongly informed me...

Jakarta - By Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, - Officials said Monday the tsunami that hit stretches of the Indonesian coast and killed 281 people was indirectly caused by volcanic eruptions from Mount...

Berlin (dpa) - Tens of thousands of Germans have sought access this year to their personal files kept by the feared secret police in former Communist East Germany, nearly three decades after the fall...

Jakarta - By Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, – The death toll from a volcano-triggered tsunami that hit both sides of Indonesia's Sunda Strait late Saturday has risen to 62, the country's disaster...

Washington -By Shabtai Gold, - The US federal government was in partial shutdown Saturday after lawmakers and the White House failed to agree on a funding bill, with President Donald Trump insisting...

Paris - Isolated demonstrations took place in France on Friday and Saturday as part of the "Yellow Vest" movement against rising fuel prices.   About 100 people gathered in Strasbourg on the...

Gaza - The latest confrontations on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel have left four Palestinians dead, Palestinian authorities said.   An 18-year-old was fatally shot by Israeli...

Magdeburg, Germany (dpa) - The debate over how to handle rejected asylum seekers is still raging in Germany, with the government in Saxony-Anhalt calling for more pressure on the migrants' countries...