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British Prime Minister Theresa May struck a deal in principle with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party on Saturday to prop up the Conservative government, stripped of its majority in a…

Voters in Kosovo were casting their ballots on Sunday in an early general election for the new 120-seat parliament. At stake are thorny issues of the border demarcation deal with Montenegro…

Saudi authorities have prevented Qatari nationals from entering the Grand Mosque in Mecca, marking a sharp escalation in the diplomatic crisis between the two Arab states, the Doha-based Al Sharq…

French voters went back to the polls on Sunday for the first round of parliamentary elections that are tipped to give President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party a commanding majority.

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Iraqi forces repelled an offensive launched in the early hours of Saturday by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group on the Sunni town of Shirqat, south of Mosul, during which 38 military…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, whose contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the US during the presidential campaign have sparked questions, agreed on Saturday to appear before the Senate…

US President Donald Trump on Friday accused Qatar’s leadership of bankrolling extremists and demanded a halt to that funding, as a diplomatic standoff between the Persian Gulf emirate and its…

Brazilian President Michel Temer defied predictions of his imminent political demise when a court acquitted him on charges of having won election thanks to dirty money.

And after Friday’s…

Thirteen Philippine marines were killed in fierce fighting with militants who have laid siege to southern Marawi city for nearly a month in the biggest single-day loss for government forces, the…

India and Pakistan began accession to a regional security group led by China and Russia on Friday after two days of summits that Russian President Vladimir Putin held up as evidence Moscow is not…

Syrian troops and allied forces fighting the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group have reached the Iraqi border for the first time since 2015, advancing close to a strategic area that has…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she sees no obstacles in the way of beginning Brexit talks as scheduled, after British Premier Theresa May failed to win a majority in Thursday’s election…

The Iraqi government criticized the announcement by the Kurdish autonomous government that it will hold a referendum on independence in September.

This week, Masoud Barzani, the…

China will offer support and assistance for Myanmar’s follow-up efforts after a military plane crashed off the Southeast Asian country’s southern coast with 122 people on board, state media said…

The leader of Spain's Catalonia region, where a separatist movement is in full swing, on Friday announced an independence referendum for October 1 in defiance of Madrid. People will be asked to…

The United Nation's children agency warned on Friday that the fight for the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group's stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria is threatening the lives of more than…

British Prime Minister Theresa May will form a government supported by a small Northern Irish party after her Conservative Party lost its parliamentary majority in an election debacle days before…

President Vladimir Putin has said US Republican Senator John McCain, known for his anti-Kremlin rhetoric, lives in the “Old World” and that Russia and the United States must work together on…

A woman detonated her explosive belt in a market east of the Shia holy city of Karbala on Friday, killing at least 30 and wounding 35, Iraqi security sources said.

A security officer said…

Pyongyang on Friday hailed the successful test of a new type of surface-to-ship cruise missile, which it said was designed to hit “any enemy group of battleships” that threatened North Korea.

Turkey is criticizing Iraqi Kurdish officials’ decision to hold a referendum in Iraq’s autonomous northern region, calling it “a grave mistake.” In a statement released on Friday, Turkey’s Foreign…

Qatar will never surrender to the pressure being applied by its Arab neighbors and won’t change its independent foreign policy to resolve disputes that have put the region on edge, Qatar’s foreign…

Ousted FBI chief James Comey accused US President Donald Trump’s White House of lies and defamation on Thursday in sworn testimony that plunged the US leader’s already troubled presidency deeper…

Angela Merkel’s cabinet agreed on Wednesday to withdraw its troops from Turkey’s Incirlik base, after last-ditch talks with Ankara failed to resolve an escalating row.

French President Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique En Marche party is set to win a large majority in the French Parliament at this month’s legislative elections, according to a new poll by Ipsos/…