Iraq’s parliament urged a reciprocal visa clampdown on Americans as a backlash spreads.
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Shayara Bano's petition against her divorce energizes national debate about women’s status in Islam.
Iraq’s parliament urged a reciprocal visa clampdown on Americans as a backlash spreads.
Resettlement agency fears some refugees are in such poor health they could die.
"We are in a horrible world, so sometimes you have to take measures of authority, even if it shocks," National Front vice president Steeve Briois said.
It was mocked as the “Ethiopian Spice Girls,” but aid workers say it was effective.
Canada can take the mantle of moral leadership from the U.S.
Canadian authorities call the assault that killed six a terrorist act.
Six men were killed and at least 19 people were injured in the attack at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Center on Sunday.
The notion of mass violence in Canada always seems to surprise. But terror strikes on Canadians are not so rare, and the shooting at a Quebec City mosque this week is not the country's most deadly attack.
Major new commitments were made by the Obama administration in July at a NATO summit.
The new U.S. defense secretary will visit South Korea and Japan on his first foreign trip.
Some European citizens are also banned from entering the U.S. under Trump’s new order.
The petition question is now on Parliament’s agenda amid the furor over Trump’s travel ban order.
A Japanese photographer documents one man's life with his love doll.
As Bernard Aronson’s special State Department mandate ends, there is no sign he’ll be replaced.
"This masjid has witnessed a lot of issues before — threats and vandalism, and some Islamophobic graffiti,” Samer Majzoub, president of the Canadian Muslim Forum, said.
In social-media postings, Islamic State supporters claim proof for the notion that the U.S. is at war with Islam.
From Europe to the Middle East, politicians and clerics condemned the president’s move.
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World Food Program head Ertharin Cousin says she won’t seek a new five-year term.
Iran’s foreign minister has refused to confirm that the country conducted a missile test, saying Iran’s missile program is not part of a 2015 nuclear deal between his country and world powers.
Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, killing at least seven people overnight, injuring many more and briefly trapping more than 200 coalminers underground, the warring sides reported.
The World Food Program says it has resumed food airdrops to the besieged Syrian city of Deir al-Zour.
Europe’s top court says an asylum request can be rejected if the person seeking protection has links to a terrorist group.
Experts with a state historical institute say a handwriting analysis confirms Lech Walesa collaborated with the Polish communist-era secret police from 1970 to 1976, a few years before he founded the pro-democracy Solidarity movement.
