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The International Criminal Court on Monday unsealed an arrest warrant for the former head of Libya’s Internal Security Agency, saying he was suspected of war crimes and crimes against humanity for…

The US military has started deploying a controversial missile defense system to a site in South Korea, amid high tensions over neighboring North Korea’s nuclear and missile ambitions.

The US government's costs could increase by $2.3 billion in 2018, if Congress and President Donald Trump decide not to fund Obamacare-related payments to health insurers, a study released on…

Turkish military jets carried out airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) fighters in northern Iraq and northeast Syria, killing at least 24 people, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu News said…

The two candidates vying to become France’s next president attended a somber ceremony on Tuesday honoring the policeman killed on the Champs Elysees, as they ramp up a campaign marked by security…

Three people were killed in Venezuela on Monday in renewed violence, raising the death toll in three weeks of massive demonstrations against leftwing President Nicolas Maduro to 24, officials said…

Students and government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir clashed again, as authorities reopened schools and colleges, just one week after facilities were shut following student-led protests…

India’s decades-long Maoist insurgency has claimed more lives in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi denounced as a “cowardly attack”.

At least 25 police officers were killed and six others…

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has announced that she is temporarily stepping down as head of her National Front party.

Monday’s move appears to be a way for Le Pen to embrace…

Marwan Barghouti’s health has declined over the past week after the leading Palestinian political figure joined a hunger strike with 1,100 other prisoners, an NGO said.

“Barghouti is…

North Korea conducted a big live-fire exercise on Tuesday to mark the foundation of its military, media reported, as a US submarine docked in South Korea in a show of force amid growing concern…

At least 15 people, including a child, drowned when an inflatable boat carrying refugees and migrants sank off Greece’s Lesbos Island, officials said today. Eight bodies were recovered in Greek…

Israeli forces have attacked pro-Syrian government groups in the countryside of Quneitra Province, two days after carrying out similar strikes in the same region.

An Aljazeera correspondent…

A US citizen in his 50s has been detained in North Korea, according to Swedish officials and local media.

IS fighters have attacked a police station in a town used as a staging ground for the Mosul offensive, killing at least three policemen, Iraqi officials said. Mahmoud Attia, a police spokesman,…

Footage filmed by a human rights group shows what it says is a group of masked settlers attacking activists assisting Palestinians in the West Bank.

Sarit Michaeli of the rights group said…

At least 2,000 children have been press-ganged into fighting by militias and more than 600,000 people have been displaced in rising violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kasai region,…

US Vice President Mike Pence and Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull swept aside any lingering tensions on Saturday over an Obama-era agreement on the resettlement of refugees, joining…

Taliban militants wearing Afghan Army uniforms killed at least 50 soldiers in a gun and suicide attack at a base in northern Afghanistan, the US military said, as the militants ramp up their…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet in the Russian city of Sochi on May 3, the Kremlin spokesman said on Friday. “Putin and Erdogan will…

They study the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees and the moon. They know that vaccines have saved tens of millions of lives and that climate change is not only real and worsened by…

Fourteen people were killed in India on Friday when a truck plowed into a group of farmers who had gathered outside a police station, in what police said was an accident involving a drunk driver…

A video has emerged that shows Egyptian soldiers shooting dead unarmed detainees in the northern Sinai region, where the military is carrying out an anti-terror offensive.

The footage,…

More than two months after US President Donald Trump got into a spat with the leader of Australia, Vice President Mike Pence hopes to smooth over any lingering hard feelings.

China continues to conduct training exercises near the Korean Peninsula, according to state media.

Chinese state news service People's Daily Online reported on Thursday the Nanchang Q-5, a…