The vehicle bomb was placed near a military checkpoint at the presidential palace in Mogadishu. Mohamed Bulbul, a journalist based in Mogadishu, told Al Jazeera that Mohamed Tulah, the Deputy Govern...

Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has expressed hope that a second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can be scheduled for early 2019. Since then, t...

French authorities confirmed on Friday the arrest of a suspected extremist linked to the 2015 attack on Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine that killed 12 people. He was arrested in December 2004 in Fa...

Emergency officials are now investigating whether the tsunami was caused by Krakatoa, a volcanic island in the Sunda Strait . "The tsunami hit several areas of the Sunda Strait, including beaches i...

Britain is set for a wet and rainy weekend in the lead up to Christmas with little chance of any snow falling before the big day. After a high near 39, more snow is possible Monday night, with a 20 pe...

Two negotiators responded to the scene. The unidentified man scaled the illuminated tree Friday evening at 5.45 and refused to come down for more than an hour. The motives of the man are unknown, th...

Earlier Thursday, she called wall money a "nonstarter". The decision to package it all together was a last-minute reversal from a plan outlined by Louisiana GOP Rep. He threatened to veto spending bil...

Outfitted in head-to-toe Balenciaga, the author (who, coincidentally, was being interviewed by fellow glitter boot-wearer SJP) stunned in a silky yellow shirtdress with a tie waist and a high-low heml...

Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing who has been China analyst for the International Crisis Group think-thank for the last two years, and Michael Spavor, who lives in Dandong and promotes ex...

Saudi Arabia has welcomed on Friday the new United Nations security council resolution on Yemen and said that it confirms the success of military pressure on Houthis . The conflict in Yemen began ...

China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday (Dec 22) it resolutely opposed "slanderous" accusations from the United States and other allies criticising China for economic espionage, urging Washington t...

China detained former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig and China-based business consultant Michael Spavor on December 10, following Canada's arrest of Huawei chief financial officer Meng whil...

Ofcom also found that one news broadcast in March, a broadcast of Worlds Apart in April and a news broadcast in May did not break its rules. Most of these investigations were sparked by Ofcom it...

Earlier, Congo's top electoral official Corneille Nangaa told presidential candidates that the electoral commission will not be ready to hold the election by the original date. Kabila and Congo's ruli...

In a historic summit meeting in June, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to work toward "complete denuclearization" on the peninsula but without detailed agreements o...

Crew members were able to lock the four stowaways in a cabin, but they later escaped and threatened the 27-strong team onboard the Italian vessel with iron bars and other makeshift weapons. The master...

If passed, it would stop the Government from changing taxes if there is a no deal Brexit without Parliament's explicit consent. In that spirit, France's Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau said that ...

Russia's media regulator says it has launched an investigation into the Russian operations of the BBC. The Kremlin said on Friday that an investigation into the BBC's work in Russian Federation was...

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh said they would have granted the stay. How did the justices vote? Trump has said he was acting in response t...

At time of publication, they had raised less than 1 percent of their goal, just over $80,000 of $100 million. As news of the campaign spread through media outlets nationwide, the campaign balloone...

Yuaki Yang, 22, is accused of poisoning his African-American roommate, officials say. Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli announced on Thursday that Yukai Yang , a 22 year-old Ch...

A Yemeni mother cradled her 2-year-old son in her lap, pressing her face close to his and clasping his hand as a series of tubes kept his small body alive. "The result of that failure, a dying two-yea...

Roughly 53,000 of them belong to the Transportation Security Administration , which is responsible for ensuring safety at transit hubs as part of the Homeland Security department. The U.S. Postal Ser...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wrapped the shutdown standoff together with the plunging stock market, Trump's abrupt pullout of US troops from Syria and the sudden resignation of De...

Lynette Ong, with the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto, said Canada's relationship with China fundamentally changed with the arrest of Meng Wanzhou , the chief financial officer of tech gia...

The daughter of Kelsey Berreth and Patrick Frazee was taken into protective custody on Friday morning, officials said. It had been more than a month since Kelsey Berreth was last seen alive ...

If Parliament fails to approve the text of PM May's deal, Britain could crash out of the European Union with no deal - a prospect that experts warn could lead to serious trade disruption and trigg...

Hunt, who served in special operations and as a key military adviser during the U.S. -Bosnian conflict, said Mattis likely did not resign on his own. The PKK is blacklisted as a terror group by Turk...

The magazine said that Relotius "simply refused to accept those realities" and wrote a tall tale about Fergus Falls. But they said the investigation is only beginning. In another, Relotius has a pictu...

De Young said that Berreth's daughter, who had been in Frazee's custody since her disappearance, is now in protective custody. Berreth's aunt, Renee Stanfill-Marasco, apparently posted on Facebook tha...

Less than a week later, doctors in NY removed two cancerous nodules from her left lung. It comes as Ginsburg, a former litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is recovering from thre...

Kilmeade also pointed out Trump's hypocrisy , arguing the president is "doing exactly what he criticized President Obama for doing". Following Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis announcing his resi...

Woodland Park Police Chief Miles De Young answers questions about the disappearance of resident Kelsey Berreth , 29, while her mother, Cheryl Berreth, stands in the background during a news conferen...

The decision caused surprise and unease among Western diplomats in Kabul, with one warning it was an early Christmas present to the Taliban. Afghan officials put up a courageous face, with an advise...

The stock market has plunged , on pace for its worst month in a decade. But the outlook changed drastically on Thursday as Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric and suggested again that he is not willi...