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A veteran Palestinian negotiator said on Monday she had been denied a U.S. travel visa for the first time, and viewed it as retaliation for her criticism of the Trump administration and Israel. Asked about Hanan Ashrawi’s allegations, a U.S. State

Spanish authorities say 52 migrants have climbed a guarded fence to gain entry into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla from Morocco. An official with the Spanish Interior Ministry in Melilla says four police officers and one migrant sustained light injuries

Sri Lanka on Monday temporarily blocked some social media networks and messaging apps, including Facebook and WhatsApp, after attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in in the latest fallout from the Easter Sunday suicide attacks. The island nation has ramped up

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has won South Africa’s parliamentary elections with 57.5 percent of the vote, the electoral commission said, announcing the official results.  Aljazeera reports, Saturday’s win assured a sixth straight term in power for the ANC. But the

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,