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North Korea has said that it will launch a nuclear weapons test whenever Kim Jong-un sees fit and has accused Donald Trump of “causing trouble”.

The US President is deploying an “armada”…

The death toll from the American military’s largest non-nuclear bomb nearly tripled on Saturday, with Afghan officials saying at least 90 IS terrorists were killed, as US-led forces conducted…

French prosecutors have asked the European Parliament to lift the immunity of far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen over an inquiry into alleged fake parliamentary jobs, legal sources…

A conflict over North Korea could break out “at any moment”, China said on Friday, warning there would be no winner in any war as tensions soar with the United States.

The sharp language…

Much like the vast mosque he has commissioned atop one of Istanbul’s highest hills, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s supporters hope a referendum on Sunday will be a crowning achievement in his…

Afghan ex-president, Hamid Karzai, stepped back into the news yesterday to condemn the dropping of the “Mother of All Bombs” on the nation’s Nangarhar Province.

The MOAB is the most…

Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Wednesday Balkan countries must implement reforms and work to overcome age-old divisions if they want to join the European Union. He was due to…

A Supreme Court justice dealt President Michel Temer and Brazil’s political elite a heavy blow on Tuesday by ordering investigations into eight Cabinet ministers and dozens of lawmakers allegedly…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for new talks on the decades-old Western Sahara conflict, saying negotiations should address proposals from both Morocco and separatist movement…

Africans trying to reach Europe are being sold by their captors in “slave markets” in Libya, the International Organization for Migration said.

Victims told IOM that after being detained by…

German investigators were hunting on Wednesday for possible suspects responsible for three explosions that rocked the Borussia Dortmund football team’s bus, injuring a player and a policeman. The…

The US administration has veered toward deeper conflict with Russia on Tuesday as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow, gambling that an unpredictable new president armed with the…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group now controls less than 7% of Iraq, down from the 40% it held nearly three years ago, a military spokesman said on Tuesday.

“IS controlled 40%…

The use of children as suicide bombers by Boko Haram militants has surged in 2017, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report released on Wednesday.

China called for a «peaceful» resolution to tensions on the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday, as a United States aircraft carrier strike group churned toward the contested region.

The risk of mass starvation in four countries-Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen-is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the UN refugee agency has warned.

About 20 million…

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will arrive in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss Syria with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov.

The visit comes as recent US strikes on a Syrian base were…

Several people have been reported wounded after a large blast hit the city of Diyarbakir in Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast on Tuesday. Turkey's interior minister has claimed that the…

Police and military clashed with suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf Group in the central Philippine island province of Bohol.

Nine people have been killed in the shootout between the…

No fewer than 16 civilians have been killed and 10 others injured in South Sudan’s northwestern town of Wau following sporadic fighting between government-backed militia and local youth, the UN…

Myanmar has started shutting down three displacement camps in strife-torn Rakhine state, a senior official said on Tuesday, although it was not immediately clear where the inhabitants would go.

North Korea denounced the US deployment of a naval strike group to the region on Tuesday, warning it is ready for “war” as Washington tightens the screws on the nuclear-armed state.

The…

Police firing tear gas have clashed with prison guards protesting working conditions in a notorious prison south of Paris. The incidents on Monday night at the sprawling Fleury-Merogis prison come…

Over a dozen people have been injured in the Grande-Synthe migrant camp following violent clashes between migrants and a subsequent blaze that reportedly reduced the facility to a “heap of ashes…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on April 10 designated children’s rights activist and Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai as a UN messenger of peace with a special focus on girls’…