President Donald Trump says “we’ll have to see” if a historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will still happen. Pyongyang threatened to pull out of the meeting if the U.S. insists on denuclearization. “We haven’t been notified at all” about whether Kim plans to cancel the summit, Trump said. President Donald Trump said Wednesday […]

GAZA/JERUSALEM – Palestinian protests on the Gaza-Israel border have dropped off over the past two days, amid reports that Egyptian officials intervened to restore calm after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire. Gaza’s dominant Islamist Hamas movement denied that it was under pressure from neighboring Egypt to scale back the six-week-old demonstrations, and […]

VATICAN CITY – Thirty-four Chilean bishops summoned to the Vatican over a cover-up of sexual abuse by clergy began crisis meetings with Pope Francis on Tuesday that could result in a purge of Chile’s Catholic hierarchy. “We feel pain and shame,” Fernando Ramos, an auxiliary bishop of Santiago, told a news conference ahead of the […]

GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER – Palestinians buried the dead on Tuesday from the bloodiest day in Gaza in years, after Israeli forces killed 60 Palestinians near the Gaza-Israel border during demonstrations against the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. Israeli forces shot dead at least two more Palestinians on Tuesday, although protests were quieter than the […]

More people have died as parts of India continue to be hit by extreme weather, following huge storms earlier this month. Dozens of people have been killed in India in powerful storms sweeping across the country. At least 70 people have died and more than 100 have been injured after a fresh wave of violent […]

At least 52 Palestinians have been killed and 2,400 wounded by Israeli troops, Palestinian officials say, on the deadliest day of violence since the 2014 Gaza war. Palestinians have been protesting for weeks but deaths soared on the day the US opened its embassy in Jerusalem. Palestinians see this as clear US backing for Israeli […]

A family of six, including a nine-year-old girl, were behind a wave of blasts targeting three churches in Indonesia’s second city of Surabaya, police say. At least 13 people died in Sunday’s bombings, which the Islamic State group has claimed. The mother and two daughters blew themselves up at one church, while the father and […]

PAHOA, Hawaii  – More destructive lava flows could soon hit Hawaii’s Big Island as the Kilauea volcano erupts, posing a greater threat than oozing magma that has so far destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands to evacuate, scientists said. As a lava lake at Kilauea’s summit drains inside the volcano, magma is running underground. […]

North Korea says it will begin dismantling its nuclear test site in less than two weeks in a ceremony attended by foreign journalists. Pyongyang said it was taking “technical measures” to carry out the process between 23-25 May, North Korean state news agency KCNA reported on Saturday. Scientists previously said the site may have partially […]

Iran has backed Syria’s “right to defend itself” after Israel launched strikes on what it said was Iranian military infrastructure inside Syria. In the first comments by Iran since Thursday’s wave of strikes, the foreign ministry condemned the “blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty”. The strikes were the heaviest carried out by Israel on Syria in […]