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Leftist presidential candidate Fernando Haddad jumped in the first Datafolha opinion poll published since he officially replaced ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as the Workers’ Party…

Gunmen dressed as traditional mariachi musicians have killed at least three people and wounded at least seven in Mexico City. The armed men opened fire at a road crossing on the edge of the…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met on Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a trip to deepen ties and seek increased financial support from one of his ailing country’s biggest…

North and South Korea opened a joint liaison office in the Northern city of Kaesong on Friday as they knit closer ties ahead of South Korean President Moon Jae-in's visit to Pyongyang next week…

The European Parliament’s vote to censure Hungary presents the assembly’s dominant center-right bloc with a dilemma over whether to retain its populist Hungarian allies or expel them months…

The UN Security Council has extended the mandate for the United Nations Support Mission in Libya by another year, until September 15, 2019, but did not endorse a Dec. 10 date for elections that…

Like few today, former United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, could “bring people together, put them at ease and unite them toward a common goal,” said the current UN chief, Antonio…

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has tentatively agreed to a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller that will head off his upcoming trial, sources familiar with the…

Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina early Friday, pushing a life-threatening storm surge of floodwater miles inland and ripping apart buildings with screaming wind and pelting…

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been temporarily released from prison to attend the funeral of his wife Kulsoom Nawaz, who passed away on Tuesday.

Around one million Catalans rallied in Barcelona on Tuesday, banging drums and blowing whistles in a show of support for independence nearly a year after a failed attempt to break away from…

The death toll in a suicide bombing among a group of people protesting a local police commander in eastern Afghanistan has risen to 68, up from 32, provincial officials said on Wednesday.

President Vladimir Putin suggested Wednesday Russia and Japan sign a peace deal “without any preconditions” by the end of the year, a historic proposal to try to solve a territorial dispute…

The European Union must flex its muscles as a world power, EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker said on Wednesday, as he spoke critically of US President Donald Trump’s retreat from…

Conservative parliament members opposed to Theresa May’s Brexit plan have met to discuss how and when they could force her to stand down as prime minister.

About 50 members of the…

Emmanuel Macron’s former security aide Alexandre Benalla said late Tuesday he would appear before a Senate’s inquiry into the affair that bears his name in a bid to avoid “legal proceedings”.…

Russia kicked off what it says are its largest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union on Tuesday, as it hosted a bilateral meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi…

The White House delivered a whipsaw message to North Korea on Monday, announcing it is ready to start planning a second meeting with Kim Jong-un just hours after President Donald Trump's top…

Afghan rights workers are warning that the US national security adviser’s blistering attack on the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations will strengthen a climate of…

Jailed former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was to throw in the towel on Tuesday in his legal battle to run in the Oct. 7 election and allow his Workers Party to announce running…

More than 1 million people on the southern East Coast of the United States faced mandatory evacuation orders as Hurricane Florence neared Category 5 strength Tuesday.

In her first speech to the UN Human Right Council (OHCHR) on Monday, the body’s new head, Michelle Bachelet, said she was “shocked” by the death sentences handed down to 75 people in Egypt after…

The Taliban are preparing to send a delegation for further talks with US officials about ending the conflict in Afghanistan, two officials involved with the process said on Tuesday, adding that…

A bus carrying at least 55 pilgrims from a Hindu temple in the hills of southern India plunged off a road on Tuesday, killing at least 43 people and injuring several others, according to…

Taliban insurgents have launched separate attacks on Afghan security forces in the country’s north, killing at least 37, provincial officials said Monday.