With its failure to repay the roughly 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion) to the IMF, Greece became the first developed country to fall into arrears on payments to the fund. The last country to do so was Zimbabwe in 2001. Last-ditch effort failsAfter Greece made a last-dit ....

The suspect in the church shooting, 21-year-old Dylann Roof, has confessed to the killing. He had previously posted a racist manifesto online as well as photos of him posing with a Confederate flag, a Civil-War era banner associated with slavery and seen by many as a sy ....

Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the Prime Minister said Islamic terrorists “have declared war on Britain and they are attacking our people at home and overseas.” We are a target,” he said. “You cannot hide from this thinking, ....

There was no confirmed claim of responsibility. Security sources said a bomb in a parked car was remotely detonated as Hisham Barakat’s motorcade left his home, after saying earlier a car bomber had rammed into the convoy. Targeting Islamists Judges and othe ....

Writing the opinion of the 5-4 majority Justice Samuel Alito rejected the arguments presented by lawyers of inmates in Oklahoma that the first injection, a sedative called midazolam, would not prevent their clients from feeling searing pain from the second and third inj ....

 The gunman, who killed 38 people at a beach resort near the Tunisian city of Sousse, received help from others in carrying out the attack, officials said. Tunisian Interior Ministry spokesman Mohamed Ali Aroui said authorities were “sure” that Seifeddin ....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was to leave Vienna and return to Tehran for consultations with the country’s leadership on the state of negotiations, Iran said. Officials from both sides said big differences still remained. European Union foreign po ....

 Kuwait on Sunday identified a suicide bomber who carried out the country’s worst militant attack as a Saudi citizen and said it had detained the driver of the vehicle that took him to a Shi'ite Muslim mosque where he killed 27 people. The Interior Ministr ....

Greece’s banks are on the front line as Athens moves towards defaulting on a €1.6 billion payment due to the IMF on Tuesday. Freeze on funds The ECB had made it difficult for the banks to open on Monday because it decided to freeze the level of funding ....

“The Embassy regrets to inform about the death of two Indian nationals in the bomb blast at Imam Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait on June 26,” the Indian mission said in a statement. Both the victims — Rizwan Husain (31) and Ibne Abbas (25) — were takin ....