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US President Donald Trump called for a determined response to North Korea after talks with South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in on Friday where he stressed the importance of their alliance but took…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday once again slammed the main opposition party over its protest march launched after a party deputy got 25 years in prison for espionage.

Qatar’s foreign minister has asked members of the United Nations Security Council to urge a Saudi-led bloc of states to lift their blockade on the Persian Gulf country, nearly one month after it…

Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the UK’s main opposition Labour Party, has called for a halt in arms sales to Saudi Arabia and a ceasefire in Yemen.

Since the start of war in Yemen, the UK has…

Nearly half a million displaced Syrians have returned to their homes since the beginning of the year, mainly to find family members and check on property, the UN refugee agency said.

The…

Malawi has launched Africa’s first air corridor to test the use of drones to deliver aid and other services in the region, according to UNICEF officials. The air corridor is a result of the…

Qatar’s Ministry of Defense has announced the arrival of a new group of Turkish armed forces to the military base where Turkey began its training mission last week.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the report by an international chemical weapons watchdog that confirmed a chemical attack in Syria doesn’t back claims by the US and its allies that the…

The presence of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres at high-level talks to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus offered a glimmer of hope that an impasse preventing a peace deal could be overcome,…

People from six mainly Muslim countries and all refugees now face tougher US entry due to President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban.

It means people without “close” family or…

Five suicide bombers attacked Lebanese soldiers as they raided two Syrian refugee camps in the Arsal area at the border with Syria on Friday and a sixth militant threw a hand grenade at a patrol,…

China on Friday strongly protested a US plan to sell $1.4 billion worth of arms to Taiwan and demanded that the deal be canceled.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the sale…

After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque at the heart of Islamic State’s de facto capital Mosul, and the prime minister declared…

US Senate Republicans have delayed a vote on their healthcare bill until after next week's July 4 holiday.

The announcement by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a setback to their…

A total of 68 stores were looted and several government offices were burned following anti-government protests late Monday and Tuesday in the city of Maracay, west of Venezuela's capital of…

Turkish forces retaliated with artillery fire overnight and destroyed Kurdish YPG militia targets after YPG fighters opened fire on Turkey-backed forces in northern Syria, the Turkish military…

A Venezuelan police helicopter strafed the Supreme Court and a government ministry on Tuesday, escalating the OPEC nation's political crisis in what President Nicolas Maduro called an attack by "…

Qatar has rejected a list of demands submitted by four Arab countries that have cut ties with it as unacceptable, saying that Doha agrees with the United States that they should push for a "…

Labour is to table an amendment to the British Queen's Speech calling for the 1% public sector pay cap and cuts to the police and emergency services to end.

Jeremy Corbyn added that the…

A suspected US-led coalition air raid on a prison run by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in eastern Syria has killed at least 57 people, according to a monitoring group.

The…

A new, highly virulent strain of malicious software that is crippling computers globally appears to have been sown in Ukraine where it badly hobbled much of the government and private sector on…

The United States might be preparing for a "preemptive" attack on Syrian government troops, as the White House warned of a possible chemical attack allegedly planned by Damascus, senior Russian…

The Supreme Court has reinstated a limited version of US President Donald Trump’s temporary order banning travelers from six Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. The court…

An influential Republican senator has announced he will withhold approval of US weapons sales to members of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council, until there is a clear path for settling a major…

The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by reviving parts of a travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority countries, which he said is needed…