Activists who plan to hoist a giant balloon version of President Donald Trump, shaped like a baby, have exceeded their crowdfunding target aimed at making their protest possible. “Trump Baby” was set up by a group of anti-Trump activists in London, who…
The restoration of a statue in northern Spain is making headlines after conservationists denounced it this week for what they said was the transformation of a 500-year-old work of art into a “children’s cartoon” effigy. In a post on its website, the…
Nikki Haley, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, is on an inter-faith journey in India, visiting a Hindu temple, a Sikh shrine, a mosque and a church in old parts of the capital. Born in South Carolina to Sikh immigrants from…
The seven nations under the Trump administration’s travel ban — upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court — include five majority Muslim countries, prompting dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to assert that the entry restrictions were motivated by “animus toward the Muslim faith.” The…
A fire swept one of Nairobi’s largest open-air markets early Thursday, killing 15 people and sending 70 injured to hospitals, an official said, as traders who lived there struggled to wake their families and flee. Nairobi County Commissioner Kangethe Thuku said six…
A small chartered plane crashed Thursday in a busy area of Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, killing at least six people including two on the ground, police said. They said the plane hit an open area at a construction site for…
Rescuers in northern Thailand were scouring a mountainside Thursday in search of alternative entrances to a flooded cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been missing for five days. Near-constant rains have stalled search efforts inside the cave by raising…
Angry protesters in Iran’s capital held a third day of demonstrations on Tuesday over the country’s anemic economy as President Hassan Rouhani told the nation that it faces an “economic war” with the United States following America’s pullout from the nuclear deal….
Prince William toured sensitive Jerusalem holy sites on Thursday and paid a pilgrimage to the tomb of his great-grandmother on the final day of his historic royal visit to the Middle East. The Duke of Cambridge’s Jerusalem leg is by far the…
The United States and Russia have agreed to hold a summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, both sides announced Wednesday. The announcement came after White House National Security Advisor John Bolton met with Putin and other senior Russian…
