Resettlement agency fears some refugees are in such poor health they could die.
(Evan Vucci / AP)
Trump signed the executive order days before they were to be resettled in the U.S.
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.
India's chief economic adviser has proposed replacing welfare programs with a cash stipend to most citizens.
"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.
Canadian authorities call the assault that killed six a terrorist act.
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.
The winner was Benoît Hamon, a former education minister.
From the Wires
Iran’s foreign minister on Tuesday refused to confirm whether his country recently conducted a missile test, saying the Iranian missile program is not part of a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
Fighting between government troops and Russia-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine escalated on Tuesday, killing at least eight people late Monday and early Tuesday, injuring dozens and briefly trapping more than 200 coal miners underground, the warring sides reported.
European Union President Donald Tusk says that the first weeks of Donald Trump are contributing to the “highly unpredictable” outlook for the bloc.
The British government’s decision to invite U.S. President Donald Trump for a state visit, one of the highest honors it can bestow on a visiting statesman, has involved Queen Elizabeth II in the passionate debate over Trump’s travel ban.
The daughter of an assassinated Myanmar legal adviser says his family worried about his activities and warned him to be careful, but he pursued his work for the sake of Myanmar’s people, regardless of who they were or what religion they believed.
Two people were killed as self-defense fighters helped thwart more deadly suicide bombings in Nigeria and Cameroon on Tuesday, officials and witnesses said.
