The Grammy awards got underway Sunday as grief over the death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant cast a pall on music’s marquee night in Los Angeles. Sorrow cast a shadow over the show held at the Staples Center the same venue where the basketball icon led the city’s Lakers to multiple championships. Dozens of people, […]

Police in Greece said Saturday they had seized weapons and more than a tonne of cocaine and arrested eight foreign nationals in a series of raids on a drug-smuggling network. The suspects being held had been bringing drugs into Europe and North Africa from the Caribbean by yacht, police said in a statement. They were […]

A volley of rockets landed near the US embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad Sunday, two security sources told AFP, in the latest unclaimed attack on American installations in the country. AFP reporters heard loud thuds emanating from the western bank of the Tigris, where the US embassy and most other foreign diplomatic missions are located. One security source said three […]

The U,S,  will not lift sanctions on Iran in order to negotiate, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted late on Saturday, seemingly in response to a Der Spiegel interview with Iran’s foreign minister. “Iranian Foreign Minister says Iran wants to negotiate with the U.S. but wants sanctions removed. @FoxNews @OANN No Thanks!” Trump tweeted in English […]

China on Sunday ordered a temporary ban on the trade in wild animals as the country struggles to contain a deadly virus believed to have been spawned in a market that sold wild animals as food. Raising, transporting or selling all wild animal species is forbidden “from the date of the announcement until the national […]