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The US Department of Justice has opened an investigation into a city’s rejection of a planned mosque, following claims of anti-Muslim bias.

The Bayonne Muslims of New Jersey, the non-profit…

More funds are urgently needed to aid more than 88,000 people who have been forced to flee an upsurge in violence in the Central African Republic.

Since fighting flared in May between…

The Russian warships, a frigate named Admiral Essen and submarine named Krasnodar, fired Kalibr cruise missiles on combat vehicles and militants outside the Syrian city of Palmyra, the Russian…

Curfews were imposed in more than 40 villages in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir early on Tuesday as part of a security operation against the Kurdish Workers' Party, or PKK, Turkish…

China is behaving like a bully with its militarization of islands in the South China Sea, Republican US Senator John McCain said on Tuesday, activity Washington must confront with its allies to…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held a private meeting with Pope Francis on Monday and requested the Catholic Church apologize for its role in the Indian residential school tragedy.

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German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel unleashed a volley of criticism against US President Donald Trump, slamming his “shortsighted” policies that have “weakened the West” and hurt European…

Two blasts ripped through the Iraqi capital of Baghdad just days into the holy month of Ramadan, killing at least 27 people and wounding more than 100.

Mutual and repeated references to centuries of friendship between their two nations were not enough to muffle the subtext of the profound differences between French President Emmanuel Macron and…

Moldova’s Foreign Ministry expelled five Russian diplomats on Monday, Russian ambassador to Moldova, Farit Mukhametshin, said.

It follows allegations that a Moldovan diplomat passed state…

Bangladesh is scrambling to evacuate nearly one million people from low-lying areas as a powerful tropical cyclone pounds the country’s southern coastline.

The case of two women charged in Malaysia with killing the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader was transferred to a higher court on Tuesday, as a defense lawyer complained of not…

Panama’s former dictator, Manuel Noriega, a onetime US ally who was ousted as Panama’s dictator by an American invasion in 1989, died late Monday at age 83.

Panamanian President Juan Carlos…

Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno on Monday called WikiLeaks whistleblowing website founder Julian Assange “a hacker”, while expressing respect to his situation, which allows Assange to continue to…

France's President Emmanuel Macron and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday held their first meeting since the French leader took office, with differences on Ukraine and Syria in full…

Warplanes launched three airstrikes on the eastern Libyan city of Derna on Monday, a witness said, in an apparent continuation of Egyptian raids on the city that began last week after militants…

Philippine forces now control most of a southern city where militants linked to the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group launched a bloody siege nearly a week ago, authorities said on Monday…

The number of hate crime incidents reported to police in Manchester has almost doubled since the suicide bomb attack at the Manchester Arena on May 22 that killed 22 people and injured…

North Korea test-fired a missile on Monday into Japan’s maritime economic zone–the  latest in a series of provocative launches that have ratcheted up tensions over its nuclear weapons…

Europe “must take its fate into its own hands” faced with a western alliance divided by Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday.

Tunisian security forces killed a senior militant and injured another in western Tunisia on Monday, according to the country’s interior ministry. In a statement, the ministry said another…

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is defending an alleged effort by top White House adviser Jared Kushner to create back-channel communications with Russia, describing it as a “good thing” as…

Hundreds of Indigenous representatives at the National Indigenous Congress from across Mexico elected a prominent Indigenous leader on Sunday as their independent candidate for the upcoming…

Floods and landslides in tropical Sri Lanka have killed at least 164 people, authorities said on Monday, as a cyclone grew in the Bay of Bengal, churning toward Bangladesh and forecast to bring…

Thousands of people on Sunday defied a strict curfew across most of Indian-administered Kashmir to attend the funeral of a top rebel commander killed by security forces.

Sabzar Ahmad Bhat,…