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People living near a South Korean golf course on Tuesday sued to stop it hosting a controversial US missile system loathed by Beijing, lawyers said, after Chinese media issued a veiled threat of a…

Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Helmand attacked a checkpoint with silenced weapons and hand grenades early on Tuesday, killing 12 policemen and stealing weapons and ammunition…

US President Donald Trump is proposing a huge $54 billion surge in US military spending for new aircraft, ships and fighters in his first federal budget while slashing big chunks from domestic…

The United Nations has warned that large numbers of children are still risking their lives to make the dangerous journey from Libya to Italy.

UNICEF said almost 26,000 children-most of them…

Muslims of African descent face growing discrimination in Germany due to worrying levels of Islamophobia, a UN monitoring group warned on Monday.

Ricardo Sunga, chairman of the UN’s Working…

Two police posts in Burkina Faso were attacked by terrorists on Monday night, officials said, just months after 12 soldiers were killed by militants in a raid near the Mali border.

It was…

At least 160 people have died in around three months of clashes between the military and ethnic armed groups in Myanmar’s northern state of Shan, a senior army official said on Tuesday,…

Malaysia’s attorney general said on Tuesday the two women accused of killing the half-brother of North Korea’s leader with a nerve agent in a Kuala Lumpur airport terminal will be charged with…

Hundreds of members of Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority have fled the Sinai Peninsula to Ismailia city, 115 km northeast of the capital Cairo, following a series of killings by a local armed…

China is sending its first senior official to visit the United States since US President Donald Trump took office, amid uncertainties over trade relations and new security tensions in East Asia.…

France’s centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron will meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in March, his team said on Saturday.

The exact date has not yet been fixed, German…

South Korean special prosecutors investigating impeached President Park Geun-hye were denied permission to extend their probe and question her in person on Monday amid a graft scandal that…

Germany saw more than 3,500 attacks against refugees and asylum shelters last year, interior ministry data showed, amounting to nearly ten acts of anti-migrant violence a day as the country…

Iraqi forces battled militants in west Mosul on Sunday, aiming to build a floating bridge across the Tigris to establish an important supply route linked to the recaptured east bank.

A week…

More than 150 French lawmakers signed an open letter on Sunday urging outgoing President Francois Hollande to officially recognize the Palestinian Territories as a state.

Several people were injured when a suicide attacker blew himself up in the Algerian city of Constantine, media reports said on Monday. The terrorist detonated a suicide belt near a local police…

The PLA Navy is likely to secure significant new funding in China's upcoming defense budget, as Beijing seeks to check US dominance of the high seas and step up its own projection of power across…

France's presidential frontrunners Francois Fillon and far-right leader Marine Le Pen can expect no let-up in legal investigations targeting them ahead of elections two months away, the justice…

Australia and Indonesia have restored full military ties less than two months after Indonesia suspended cooperation over “offensive” teaching material found at an Australian base.

Prime…

Thirteen French police officers and gendarmes were hurt in Saturday’s protests against the planned visit by presidential candidate Marine Le Pen to the western city of Nantes, police said.

Malaysia’s health minister said on Sunday that the dose of nerve agent given to North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un’s half brother was so high that it killed him “within 15 to 20 minutes.”

Democrats selected former labor secretary, Tom Perez, over Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison as their new chairman on Saturday, concluding a hotly contested race to lead a battered party as it tries to…

US President Donald Trump ratcheted up his feud with the US media, announcing he will skip the annual correspondents’ dinner one day after a row erupted over White House press access.

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Iraqi forces pushed deeper into western Mosul on Saturday, advancing in several populated southern districts after shattering the defenses in the last major urban stronghold of the self-styled…

Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans have held rival protests in Seoul over the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye on the fourth anniversary of her swearing into office.

About 17,000…