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An attack on a Catholic church in Burkina Faso, potentially linked to extreme Islamist violence in the country, has killed six people. Al Jazeera reports that a group of between 20 and 30 armed attackers killed a priest and five worshippers on

Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a local man was beaten in the town of Chilaw on Sri Lanka’s west coast Sunday in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources told Reuters. Three weeks ago in

US President Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping could meet next month on the sidelines of the G20 summit to hash out their differences on trade, but no new talks are scheduled, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Sunday. The

The United States’ military presence in the Gulf used to be a serious threat but now it is an opportunity and Iran will hit U.S. troops if Washington makes a move, a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Sunday,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that a site for a promised new settlement to be named after U.S. President Donald Trump had been chosen and formal approval was under way. “I promised that we would establish a community named

Thousands of people marched through central London in a bid to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and the blockade on Gaza. “Free Palestine”, and “End Siege in Gaza” protesters shouted, carrying pro-Palestinian placards. The procession started in Portland Place and

Security forces killed three of the four militants who attacked a five-star hotel in Pakistan’s southwestern port city of Gwadar on Saturday evening, officials said. Mir Zia Langu, Home Minister of Balochistan province, of which Gwadar is a district, told Anadolu

Nearly every country in the world has agreed upon a legally binding framework to reduce the pollution from plastic waste except for the United States, U.N. environmental officials say. An agreement on tracking thousands of types of plastic waste emerged Friday