International

Left-leaning Moon Jae-in, a former human rights lawyer, backs engagement with North Korea in the quest for peace—in contrast with the threatening rhetoric from the US administration in recent…

A former general in South Sudan’s Army said he commands a new rebel movement of at least 30,000 fighters that will seek to overthrow President Salva Kiir, threatening to deepen the three-year…

US President Donald Trump has approved a plan to arm the Syrian Kurdish militia—an important US ally in Syria in the fight against IS.

Jeremy Corbyn vowed to carry on leading Britain’s opposition Labor Party even if he loses a national election on June 8, defying polls showing he is on course for defeat and concerns from within…

Manuel Valls, a former French Socialist prime minister, said on Tuesday that he wished to support president-elect Emmanuel Macron's political movement in the June elections in the lower house of…

The White House responded to hours of Senate testimony on Monday by saying there was still no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court told the United Nations Security Council that her Office is considering launching an investigation into alleged migrant-related crimes in Libya,…

Several hundred people, including union members and students, protested in the streets of Paris on Monday, warning French president-elect Emmanuel Macron they would actively oppose his pro-market…

A British man jailed after trying to assassinate Donald Trump said Tuesday that screaming voices in his head urged him to lunge for a policeman's gun. Michael Sandford, 21, who has a history of…

Malaysia has confirmed that the country's top operative of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Syria, Muhammad Wanndy Mohamed Jedi, is dead.

Three Russian warships that were supposed to stay docked near St. Petersburg for a holiday celebration this week have instead turned up in the Baltic Sea, Latvia's military authorities said on…

Left-leaning former human rights lawyer, Moon Jae-in, won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide, an exit poll predicted when voting closed on Tuesday.

The election was called…

A car bomb exploded near a cafe in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, on Monday, killing at least five people and injuring 10 others, according to a Somali police officer. The car bomb parked outside Bar…

The head of the self-styled Islamic State in Afghanistan — described as the mastermind behind high-profile attacks including an assault on a military hospital that claimed at least 50 lives — has…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives scored another victory in a regional election, giving the party a boost ahead of the national vote this fall.

France went to the polls Sunday to choose between centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen for president, in a watershed election both for the divided country and the future of…

More than 200 cholera cases have been reported in Yemen’s capital Sana’a, as contaminated water and poor sanitation lead to a sharp rise in the transmission of the deadly disease.

Cholera…

Colombia’s government and last active rebel force, the ELN, will resume peace talks in just over a week, the lead state negotiator confirmed on Saturday.

Boko Haram have released 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 they abducted in northeastern Nigeria three years ago, the president’s office says.

They were handed over in exchange for Boko…

A longtime senior Hamas official was elected on Saturday to replace the Palestinian resistant group’s outgoing head, Khaled Meshaal, an official in Meshaal’s office told CNN. Hamas’ Shura Council…

Approximately 3,000 undocumented immigrants en route to Europe were saved in the Mediterranean Sea on Saturday, the Italian Coast Guard said.

French voters went to the polls on Sunday.  The polling day follows an unprecedented campaign marked by scandal, repeated surprises and a last-minute hacking attack on Macron, a 39-year-old…

Dressed in white and chanting “Liberty!” tens of thousands of women opposed to Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro marched on Saturday, proffering roses to security forces who blocked their way…

Twin explosions in the Philippine capital on Saturday night killed two people and injured six others, police said, just over a week after another blast in the same area.

Authorities…

US President Donald Trump’s choice for army secretary announced on Friday that he is withdrawing his name from consideration. “It is with deep regret today I am withdrawing my nomination to be the…