German Chancellor Angela Merkel landed in Cairo Thursday on a two-day trip to Egypt and Tunisia, in a push to limit migrant flows to Europe through North…

The EU on Thursday stepped up warnings that countries could be punished if they fail to share the burden of mainly Syrian refugees stranded in Greece and Italy, reports AFP. Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said member states had until September to take in 160,000 Syrian and other refugees…

 China said Thursday it will continue to support the "open and unbiased" World Trade Organization (WTO) in a statement that came on the heels of an announcement by President Donald Trump's administration that the US is not bound by the group's rulings, reports AFP. The world's…

Turkey on Thursday threatened to strike Syrian Kurdish militia forces if they don't withdraw from Manbij, a former bastion of Islamic State extremists that has been taken over by predominantly-Kurdish forces, reports AFP. "We will strike the YPG if they do not retreat," Foreign Minister…

At least 11 coal miners were killed Thursday when a methane gas blast tore through a pit in western Ukraine, the head of the coal miners' trade union said, reports AFP. "A methane explosion. 11 killed," Mykhaylo Volynets wrote on Facebook. Ukraine's emergencies service said that 20…

A US drone on Thursday killed two men riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, officials said, the first such attack in the country under the administration of new American President Donald Trump, reports AFP. Drone strikes are extremely unpopular among many Pakistanis because they…

A former army general and top aide to President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in Thursday as Sudan's first prime minister since the post was scrapped in a 1989 Islamist-backed coup, reports AFP. Bakri Hassan Saleh, a military officer involved in the bloodless coup that brought Bashir to power three decades…