Reuters

Egypt has been without a parliament since June 2012 when a court dissolved the democratically elected main chamber.

With Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley from Oregon pledging support, President Barack Obama has 31 senators behind his proposed deal. He'll need 34.

The Islamic State group detonated explosives in the ancient Baal Shamin temple on Aug. 25, an act that cultural agency Unesco has called a war crime.

Gusting winds were blamed for massive power outages affecting as many as 450,000 customers.

The two people were alleged to have been spying for the U.S. and Israel.

A Lithuanian man was detained on Saturday when police stopped him outside Budapest with 12 Syrians in his vehicle.

Sacks, who announced in February 2015 that he had terminal liver cancer, died at his home in New York City, his longtime personal assistant Kate Edgar told the Times.

Eni predicted the find could help meet Egypt's gas needs for decades to come.

"The only way for the people to get back to the old system is for them to remove this prime minister," Mahathir Mohamad says.

More than 4,300 people have been killed in five months of war in Yemen while disease and suffering in the already impoverished country have spread.

Egypt summoned the British ambassador to reject as "unacceptable interference" comments he made on an Egyptian court's decision to hand down prison sentences for three Al Jazeera journalists, state media said on Sunday.

As Europe grapples with its biggest wave of migration since World War Two, the Netherlands is about to toughen its asylum policy by cutting off food and shelter for people who fail to qualify as refugees.

China's anti-corruption agency has said it has opened an investigation into the former chairman of major Chinese steelmaker Wuhan Iron and Steel.

A fire at an oil workers residential compound in Saudi Arabia on Sunday claimed one casualty and injured 30 more of various nationalities, civil defense authorities said.

Erika, a tropical storm that killed 20 people on the Caribbean island of Dominica and at least one person in Haiti, fell apart on Saturday over eastern Cuba, theU.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Police probing Thailand's deadliest bombing widened their net in the search for more suspects on Sunday after a foreigner was arrested and stacks of fake passports and bomb-making materials were found.

Some 12,000 soldiers will march through Beijing's central Tiananmen Square on Thursday, mostly Chinese but with Russian and a few other foreign contingents, accompanied by tanks and armored vehicles, as fighter jets scream overhead.

During Sierra Leone's long conflict, the diamonds were sent to neighboring Liberia where former President Charles Taylor used the proceeds to finance weapons for rebels.

The "You Stink" protest campaign, ignited by a waste crisis, has widened to reflect anger at widely-perceived graft in the political class and the state's failure to provide basic services.

Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said on Saturday that inflation was likely to rebound allowing the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.

The 57.98 million-share, or roughly 10.8 percent, stake was revealed in a Friday night filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists, in a gesture to shore up a tenuous ceasefire, agreed on Aug. 26 to strive for an end to all truce violations from next Tuesday, the OSCE and rebel representatives have said.

On Saturday a Yellen ally and former adviser at the Fed delivered a provocative retort

"With regards to our defensive capability, we did not and will not accept any limitations," Rouhani said at a press conference carried on live television.

The owner of adultery website Ashley Madison had already been struggling to sell itself or raise funds for at least three years before the publication of details about its members.

Nigeria has uncovered a spy cell run by militant Islamist group Boko Haram at the international airport in the capital Abuja apparently aimed at selecting targets for attack, the country's national security agency said.

A ceasefire in a Syrian town near the Lebanese border and two villages to the north has broken down after renewed shelling, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Saturday.

The gunman who killed two Virginia television journalists on air carried out a well-planned assault and identified with mass murderers and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, authorities said on Friday.