An increasingly frustrated China lashed out at what it called “stupid” Australia on Wednesday, using an editorial in a Communist Party mouthpiece to demand an end to Canberra’s “smears” against Chinese journalists, diplomats and academics.…

China's economic growth hit a three-decade low in 2018, adding to pressure on Beijing to beef up stimulus measures and settle a tariff war with Washington. AP Photo/Andy Wong China's economy recovers further from COVID-19…

US intelligence reports say that Iran has been thinking of assassinating Lana Marks, the US ambassador to South Africa, as revenge for killing of top general Qassem Soleimani in January, Politico reported. The US killed…

Iran's state TV reported that the country's authorities have executed a champion wrestler who attended anti-government protests in 2018 and said he was tortured into confessing to murder. Navid Afkari, 27, was one of hundreds…

President Trump on Friday oversaw the signing of an agreement between Serbia and Kosovo that normalizes economic relations between the two countries — and also includes Kosovo recognizing Israel, and Serbia agreeing to move its embassy to Jerusalem. President…

A secret Israeli plan to resettle 60,000 Palestinians in South America has been discovered in a declassified state archive. In 1969 Israel struck a deal with Paraguay, 7,000 miles away, to accept Palestinians from Gaza…

John Sexton Buzzfeed has done an extensive investigation using satellite imagery to identify the massive network of re-education camps that have been built in the western province of Xinjiang by the Chinese Communist Party. Some…

Authorities said the attacker appeared to target motorcyclists. LONDON -- A man has been charged with attempted murder following a series of car crashes on a German motorway which authorities believe had a potentially Islamist…

Migrants trying to reach high-welfare northern European nations being frustrated by Hungary’s southern border fence are digging tunnels in a bid to cross undetected, a new tactic that has otherwise been seen on the U.S.-Mexico…

NurPhoto/Getty Employment in the UK dropped by the most since 2009, signalling that more pain may lay ahead for British-based workers, data released Tuesday showed. The number of UK employees on payrolls fell in July…

By Joanna Plusinska WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is ready to craft rules to reduce foreign ownership of media outlets such as newspapers and TV channels, while making further changes to the judiciary, Poland’s de facto…

by Paul Bedard Most developed countries, especially in Europe, ban mail-in voting to fight vast fraud and vote buying that had threatened the integrity of their elections, according to an exhaustive review of voting rules and…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced a broad program to crack down on Chinese apps and services. The "Clean Network" program will block "untrusted" Chinese apps from app stores; stop Chinese phone companies…

A massive explosion rocked Beirut on Tuesday, flattening much of the city’s port, damaging buildings across the capital, and sending a giant mushroom cloud into the sky. More than 70 people were killed and 3,000…

A massive explosion that destroyed buildings and killed at least 100 people in Beirut, Lebanon, damaged some city hospitals so badly that they can't treat blast victims. The New York Times reported that at least…

President Trump will soon take actions to tackle the issue, Pompeo said. ecretary of State Mike Pompeo during an interview on Fox News Channel's program Sunday Morning Futures said that the Trump administration soon will take…

Thursday, July 30, marked one month since China imposed a new national-security law on Hong Kong. A lot has happened in a very short time. Vocal activists fled to safety abroad, political organizations disbanded, and…

Efforts to interfere with "private communications" of campaigns were noted. The federal government’s counterintelligence chief marked 100 days until the 2020 presidential election with a troubling but expected status report: our foreign adversaries are at…

The plane returned to the gate due to an unruly passenger. Spirit Airlines canceled a Philadelphia-bound flight after a dispute broke out on the plane and spilled over into a brawl inside the terminal in…

"The U.S. unilaterally provoked the incident," China's Foreign Ministry said. China has officially ordered the U.S. to close its consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu in an expected retaliation against the ordered closure of…

Hong Kong's semi-autonomy and freedoms hang in the balance. HONG KONG -- In 1993 President Bill Clinton called Hong Kong "a catalyst of democratic values." This rosy outlook seems far removed from the reality in…

By Gordon Chang In March, the non-partisan Australian Strategic Policy Institute, in a report titled "Uyghurs for Sale," accused Beijing of forcing more than 80,000 Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities to produce products for Nike…