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A US envoy for Iran met on Friday with the family of Iranian-German national Jamshid Sharmahd, who was sentenced to death in February in Iran after being convicted of heading a pro-monarchist group accused of a deadly 2008 bombing.…

A pilot was killed when a US fighter jet crashed near a military base in California, the US Marine Corps said. The F/A-18 Hornet jet crashed just before midnight local time near Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on Thursday, about, 24km…

The descendants of former Prime Minister William Gladstone are facing calls to pay reparations to Jamaica for an ancestor's role in slavery. The Gladstone family apologised for its slaveholding past in Guyana and pledged to fund research…

Senior National Health Service doctors in England will strike for three consecutive days during the ruling Conservative Party's annual conference in October, the British Medical Association (BMA) said. The strikes from Oct. 2-4 would be…

North Korea has asked Japan to immediately halt the release of wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant. This comes, hours after Japan began releasing treated water into the Pacific Ocean. In a statement, North Korea's…

The King will travel to France in September after a scheduled visit in March was cancelled due to protests against pension reforms. The original three-day trip would have been the King's first overseas state visit since succeeding his…

At least 13 people were wounded in Russian attacks on Ukraine as Kyiv marked 32 years of independence from Moscow local officials said. Report says a Russian missile strike wounded 10 people in the central city of Dnipro and three…

The former head of a German precision tools manufacturer has been arrested on suspicion of providing banned dual-use goods to the Russian weapons industry, Germany's prosecutor general said. The man, named only as Ulli S, is suspected of…

Taiwan will spend an extra T$94.3 billion ($2.97 billion) to buy weapons next year including fighter jets to bolster its defences against China, the government said and will get a further boost from new F-16 fighter jet tracking systems.…

North Korea accused the United States of driving the Ukraine crisis toward a global nuclear disaster by supplying F-16 fighter jets to Kyiv's forces, saying Washington had no right to criticise Pyongyang's military cooperation with Russia.…