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Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth millions of euros (dollars) from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy, police said on Monday.

President Trump said Monday the U.S. has entered "serious discussions" with the Iranian regime to end the war, but warned he will destroy the Islamic republic's energy infrastructure if a deal isn't reached soon.

Iran on Monday rejected President Trump's 15-point peace plan and reiterated that Tehran is not engaged in negotiations with the U.S. or regional governments.

China announced Monday that it is sanctioning a conservative Japanese lawmaker close to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, accusing him of "colluding with" separatists in Taiwan, the latest incident that underlines growing tensions between Tokyo and ...

U.S. President Trump said he wanted to take Iran's oil and suggested American troops could seize the country's Kharg Island export hub, even as he added in comments published Monday that a deal with Tehran to end the war "could be made fairly quickly ...

Congolese rapper Clem Cleopatre took to the stage on the last day of a three-day music festival organized by women in Goma, firing up the crowd with rapid, punchy lyrics about social cohesion, peace, and unity.

Iranian forces "are waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever," the country's parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said.

Israeli officials sought to make amends after Catholic Church leaders in Jerusalem were denied entrance on Palm Sunday to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher amid security concerns.

Afghanistan's government accused Pakistan's military of shelling the outskirts of an eastern Afghan city on Sunday, killing one person and wounding more than a dozen in the latest episode of renewed fighting between the two neighboring countries.

Yemen's Houthi rebels fired drones and ballistic missiles Saturday toward Israel, marking the first-known attack from the Iran-backed terror group since the start U.S.-Israeli air campaigns against the Islamic republic.