By

A convoy of dozens of aid trucks departed from Damascus on Thursday on their way to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, the second delivery there this week, a humanitarian official and a Reuters witness said.

India on Wednesday deferred the decision to hold foreign secretary level talks with Pakistan till the return of its national secretary advisor Ajit Doval from France, Press Trust of India said citing official sources.

While no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks, they have revived fears that home-grown extremists bloodied on the battlefields of the Middle East with the Islamic State group could have brought their jihad home. Nineteen people, including another foreigner, were...

“We decided after the nuclear test that… there will be no opportunity for an worldwide global dialogue in the spirit of the World Economic Forum”.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley finds herself in the unenviable position of having the just delivered the dreaded (and perhaps cursed?) Republican response to President Obama’s seventh, and final State of the Union address.

Sunday editorial pages and national news shows were harshly critical of the state’s response to the Flint crisis. The city switched back to a less corrosive water source last fall, but the damage was done. Eroding infrastructure isn’t unique to Flint. And as...

There were no obvious signs of disruption in the northeastern city of Dandong that sits on the Yalu River directly across from North Korea’s Sinuiju.

On the long list of things that state officials should move swiftly to correct in Flint, the wiping away of this particular injustice in the city’s water crisis ought to rank near the top.

The B-52 was joined by South Korean F-15 and U.S. F-16 fighters and returned to its base in Guam after the flight, the US military said.

Rick Snyder activated the Michigan National Guard Tuesday, with more than 30 members of the reserve force expected to arrive in the Genesee County seat by Friday.

The office of the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) in New Delhi was attacked by members of a Hindu extremist organisation on Thursday, Indian media reported.

At least one winning ticket was sold in Wednesday’s world-record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot drawing, lottery officials confirmed.

A standoff between the rival Koreas has deepened since last week’s test, the North’s fourth.

At least seven people have been killed – including four militants – after a series of explosions and gunfire in Jakarta.

Iranian protesters burned the Saudi embassy in Tehran in response. Those attacks came after Saudi Arabia executed al-Nimr on January 2.