World Archive

Russia’s domestic security agency said Monday that it has arrested a U.S. citizen on espionage charges. The Federal Security Service, or FSB, the top KGB successor agency, said that Paul Whelan was detained in Moscow on Friday. The agency said in

Day after day Nabil al-Hakimi, a humanitarian official in Taiz, one of Yemen’s largest cities, went to work feeling he had a “mountain” on his shoulders. Billions of dollars in food and other foreign aid was coming into his war-ravaged homeland,

A group of 12 migrants, including a 10-year-old child, arrived in Britain on Monday after crossing the English Channel from France, local media reported as the debate intensified around a recent spike in the number of migrants crossing the channel. The migrants

Iraqi warplanes on Monday struck a site in Syria’s Deir el-Zour province that had been hosting a meeting of Daesh terrorists, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said. The airstrikes were carried out in Deir el-Zour’s city of Al-Bukamal, according to a ministry

The U.S. stock market ended a miserable year on a positive note but still closed out 2018 with its worst showing in a decade. After setting a series of records through the late summer and early fall, major U.S. indexes fell