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Democrats blocked US President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee with a historic filibuster on the Senate floor on Thursday, but their victory was short-lived.

Republicans prepared to…

US President Donald Trump predicted a “very great” relationship with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, as the pair met for the first time at his Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago, when cordiality…

South Africa will appear before the pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court on Friday to account for the country’s failure to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir when he…

UK Prime Minister Theresa May pitched London as a listing destination for Saudi Aramco’s initial public offering during her trip to Saudi Arabia, a UK government official said, as she seeks to…

Russia’s Black Sea Fleet and Turkey’s Navy held joint exercises in the Black Sea, the fleet’s spokesman Vyacheslav Trukhachev said on Wednesday.

The Russian Admiral Grigorovich frigate…

The death toll from a suspected chemical attack on a northern Syrian town rose to 72 on Wednesday, as activists and rescue workers found more terrified survivors hiding in shelters near the site…

South Africa’s biggest trade union has called on President Jacob Zuma to quit after his Cabinet reshuffle cost the country one of its investment-grade credit ratings and deepened splits within the…

The second debate in France’s wild presidential campaign on Tuesday night was touted as unprecedented.

The contest marked the first in French television history to feature every candidate…

The European Parliament will on Wednesday lay down its “redlines” for negotiations over a Brexit deal, on which the assembly will have the final say in two years’ time.

The parliament in…

At least four people have been killed in a blast that appeared to have been an attack targeting a census team in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, officials said. Security officials…

The European Union expressed frustration with Israel’s continued demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank in a high-level meeting last week.

North Korea fired a newly developed powerful ballistic missile into its eastern waters on Wednesday, US and South Korean officials said, amid worries the North might conduct nuclear or long-range…

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was expanding camps for people fleeing Mosul, as airstrikes resumed on the positions of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq’s second largest…

Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with Venezuelan security forces on Tuesday, as they tried to rally behind lawmakers locked in a bitter dispute with the administration of President Nicolas Maduro…

All 11 candidates in France's presidential election, from frontrunners Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron to also-rans, took part in a giant TV debate on Tuesday seeking to swing undecided voters…

The leaders of Russia, Germany and France agreed in a phone call on Tuesday to speed up the exchange of data aimed at fighting terrorism, the Kremlin said.

They spoke following Monday's…

Chinese President Xi Jinping probably won't play golf with his US counterpart Donald Trump during their first face-to-face meeting this week, but he may find it worthwhile to ensure his American…

Congolese police deployed heavily across the capital Kinshasa on Monday, as opposition calls for a general strike after a breakdown in talks with President Joseph Kabila’s allies last week raised…

US President Donald Trump’s administration halted all US grants to the United Nations Population Fund, an international humanitarian aid organization that provides reproductive health care and…

The UK enjoys a “cozy relationship” with Saudi Arabia that is incompatible with the human rights values they espouse, human rights activist Peter Tatchell told Radio Sputnik.

Last week,…

A video showing a Palestinian-American professor being violently beaten by members of the Jewish Defense League during a protest on March 26 in the United States has been circulating on social…

US President Donald Trump set human rights scandals aside to welcome Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the White House on Monday, the first such visit from an Egyptian president in almost…

European observers said on April 3 there was “credible information” that Armenia’s parliamentary elections at the weekend were marred by “vote-buying” and pressure on voters.

Fourteen people were killed and dozens more injured as an explosion rocked the Saint Petersburg metro on Monday, in what Russian authorities described as an act of terror.

Authorities shut…

According to legislative sources on Monday, Paraguay’s lower house is delaying a vote on an amendment to the constitution that would allow current and previous presidents to stand for reelection,…