International

Tensions are rising between the UK and Spain in a row over the future of Gibraltar, as the UK embarks on negotiations to leave the European Union.

South Korean human rights lawyer Moon Jae-in won the liberal Democratic Party primary vote on Monday, setting him on course to become the next president and perhaps take a softer line on North…

Ten people were killed by an explosion inside a metro train at the Sennaya Square station in St. Petersburg, emergency services told TASS. According to a source, an unidentified device exploded in…

Russia criticized the United States on Sunday for what it said were “absurd statements” justifying the American-led coalition’s possible role in more than 100 civilian deaths in Mosul last month…

South Africa’s opposition party has launched disciplinary action against its former leader after she tweeted colonialism was not all bad. The Democratic Alliance has been under pressure to…

US President Donald Trump warned in an interview published on Sunday that the United States is prepared to act unilaterally to deal with North Korea’s nuclear program if China proves unwilling to…

Access to and from the Gaza Strip for human rights workers is being blocked by the Israeli military, preventing the adequate investigation of war crime allegations, a prominent watchdog stated in…

Lenin Moreno, the candidate of the ruling Alianza Pais Party in Ecuador, appears to have secured a win in the second round of presidential elections, barely beating his rival, the conservative…

French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen told a political rally on Sunday that the euro currency, which she wants France to ditch, was like a knife in the ribs of the French people.

Serbia’s powerful Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic claimed victory on Sunday in the presidential election that was a test of his authoritarian rule, an outcome that could expand Russia’s influence…

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and top aide to US President Donald Trump, is in Iraq on an official visit, a senior administration official said on Sunday.

Kushner is travelling in the…

Michael Flynn, US President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, failed to disclose payments from a Russian television network and a second firm linked to Russia in a February…

More than 250 have been killed in southwest Colombia after landslide buried homes while residents were asleep.

Four hundred people have been injured and 200 are still missing after the…

Myanmar went to the polls on Saturday for the first time since Aung San Suu Kyi’s party swept to power a year ago, in an early indication of views on her leadership amid increasing fighting with…

A Kentucky federal judge has ruled that a startling lawsuit accusing US President Donald Trump of inciting violence at a campaign rally can proceed.

The suit was brought by three protesters…

Armenians voted in the country’s first parliamentary election on Sunday since the ex-Soviet nation modified its constitution to expand the powers of parliament and the prime minister.

A booby-trapped motorcycle exploded outside an Egyptian police training center on Saturday, wounding 16 people, the interior ministry said. The apparent attack in the Nile Delta city of Tanta…

Serbians went to the polls on Sunday to elect a new president, with strongman Aleksandar Vucic hoping to tighten his grip on power amid opposition accusations he is shifting the country to…

Venezuela’s president and Supreme Court backed down on Saturday from an unprecedented move to strip congress of its legislative powers that had sparked widespread charges that the South American…

The EU will "not be intimidated" by threats about the UK leaving with no deal, Donald Tusk has said.

Some 500 refugees have died in the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of the year, as they tried to make the perilous journey from North Africa to Italy.

The figure was announced by an…

French presidential candidate Francois Fillon has been placed under formal investigation into allegations he had his wife and children paid hundreds of thousands of euros for parliamentary jobs…

The date for South Korea’s presidential election has been announced, with the country set to vote on its next leader nearly two months after a court upheld the impeachment of former president,…

Washington’s top diplomat flew into Tokyo on Wednesday to begin a first tour of Asian capitals under the shadow of North Korea’s nuclear posturing.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has…

Iraqi government forces killed the IS commander of Mosul’s Old City on Tuesday, as the battle for the militants’ last stronghold in Iraq focused on a bridge crossing the Tigris River.