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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced calls for his resignation over allegations of corruption in a military jet deal with France after former French president Francois Hollande was quoted…

US President Donald Trump faced a new challenge to his authority Friday after US media reported that his deputy attorney general had discussed ways to force him from office on grounds of…

The North Korea ball is thoroughly back in Washington's court. That was the message from South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday during a news conference in Seoul to cap a historic trip…

Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang died on Friday aged 61 at a military hospital in the capital Hanoi following a period of illness, state media said. Quang was appointed president, a largely…

The US has imposed sanctions on the Chinese military over its purchasing of Russian military jets and surface-to-air missiles.

It says such purchases contravene US sanctions on Moscow…

British Prime Minister May’s Brexit blueprint was in tatters Friday, after the European Union rejected it at a summit in a move that the UK media branded a “humiliation”.

A new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll has found that enthusiasm among Democrats is soaring ahead of elections on Nov. 6 that will determine whether Republicans maintain control over the US Congress…

At least 100 people have died after a ferry carrying hundreds of people capsized on Lake Victoria, Tanzania, officials say.

It is feared that more than 200 people may have drowned.…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz appeared to put aside their differences, as the two leaders announced a series of efforts aimed at combating irregular…

Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser now has a name, and the Republican Party’s bid to swiftly lift him onto the US Supreme Court may be spinning out of control.

A top Chinese general attended the opening on Monday of a regional armed forces health forum organized by the Chinese and US militaries, as the two sides set aside friction over trade and…

Brazil’s far-right presidential frontrunner Jair Bolsonaro was released from intensive care Sunday after undergoing surgery for complications from a stab wound he suffered while campaigning. The…

The United Nations’ special envoy to war-ravaged Yemen has arrived in Sanaa to meet Houthi leaders, just as a Saudi-UAE-backed government offensive to retake the strategic western port city of…

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that he will push for “irreversible, permanent peace,” and for better dialogue between Pyongyang and Washington, during “heart-to-heart” talks with…

Relations between Cuba and the United States are in decline under US President Donald Trump, his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel said in an interview.

More than 40 million Americans voted in primaries this year, a staggering increase from four years ago and a sign of virtually unprecedented voter enthusiasm ahead of the midterm elections.

Rescue efforts ramped up in the Philippines Sunday to aid quarter of a million people caught in the path of Typhoon Mangkhut, as authorities attempted to gauge how many people died in the…

Theresa May has said she gets “irritated” by the ongoing speculation over her position as prime minister.

In an interview to mark the six-month countdown to Brexit, May told the BBC the…

Storm Florence weakened on Sunday as it swept through the Carolinas but dozens of communities are devastated and epic amounts of rain could still fall, officials said.

The storm was…

At least eight civilians have been killed in twin attacks in eastern Burkina Faso, where armed groups have been gaining ground in recent months, according to local authorities. “Two terror…

The shine is starting to come off South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s engagement strategy with the North.

The liberal politician, who reversed nearly a decade of conservative hard-line…

Iraq’s parliament elected Sunni lawmaker Mohammed al-Halbousi as speaker on Saturday, marking an important step toward establishing a new government four months after an inconclusive national…

Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians, one of them an 11-year-old boy, and wounded at least 248 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border,…

A plea deal by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort to cooperate with US prosecutors in their investigation of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election suggests he could shed…

Fighting in the Yemen port city of Hodaida which has damaged a World Food Program storage facility threatens to hamper efforts to feed millions of people in the war-torn country, WFP said on…