A court in Moscow has approved a request from the Russian media regulator to block the Telegram messaging app immediately. The media regulator sought to block the app because the firm had refused to hand over encryption keys used to scramble messages. Security officials say they need to monitor potential terrorists. But the company said […]

In laying his integrity on the line over Syria’s suspected use of chemical weapons, French President Emmanuel Macron might be playing for even higher stakes – maintaining the landmark Iran nuclear accord, analysts say. The 40-year-old leader, weighing the first foreign military operation on his own initiative, has made clear he considers Damascus behind a […]

  A hulking homeless man was found guilty Tuesday of killing a 6-year-old boy in a Brooklyn elevator knife attack that left the helpless child’s 7-year-old playmate clinging to life. A jury took a day and a half to deliberate before reaching its verdict against Daniel St. Hubert in the gruesome attack at the Boulevard […]

Lavrov says strike a ‘very dangerous development’; No comment from Israel on allegations it carried out attack The United States, Russia and Syria said Israel carried out a deadly airstrike on an Iran-operated air base in Syria’s central Homs province overnight Monday, with Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov describing the raid as a “very dangerous […]

VATICAN CITY — A monsignor who had been recalled to the Vatican as a diplomat in the Holy See’s Washington Embassy was arrested on Saturday on suspicion of possessing child pornography in the United States and Canada. Msgr. Carlo Alberto Capella was arrested by the Vatican police on a warrant issued by the Holy See’s […]

Rising tensions between China and the United States pummeled stocks again on Friday, as investors began to take seriously the risk of a trade war between the world’s two largest economies. Markets began to slide at the start of trading after President Trump’s threat on Thursday to heap fresh tariffs on China, and the sell-off gained […]

Al-Wafideen – Evacuations of rebels and civilians from the last opposition pocket in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta stalled on Thursday as divisions continued within the Islamist faction that holds the area, state media said. A convoy of 20 buses organised by the government had entered the former rebel bastion’s main town of Douma to prepare for […]

SAO PAULO – A former shoeshine boy and steelworker who rose to become one of Brazil’s most popular presidents, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s downfall has been just as dramatic. At 72, the lifelong fighter finds himself on the ropes following a Supreme Court ruling that could see him soon sent to prison. The two-term former […]

A controversial church bell in Schweringen, northern Germany, has had a swastika inscription removed as part of an unauthorised “spring cleaning”. The unknown perpetrators left a note on the door confessing to defacing it, saying they wanted to clean the bell of “the filth of the National Socialists”. The note said they aimed to prevent […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday ordered the withdrawal of rules punishing journalists held responsible for distributing “fake news”, giving no reason for the change, less than 24 hours after the original announcement. The move followed an outcry by journalists and opposition politicians that the rules represented an attack on […]