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The temporary head of Iraq’s parliament has agreed to convene an emergency session on Saturday to discuss the situation in Basra, the state news agency reported on Friday.

Mexican investigators used drones and ground-penetrating radar to search an area in the coastal Veracruz state that has yielded the skulls of at least 166 people, officials said Thursday.…

Rescuers continued to search for survivors of a powerful earthquake on Japan's island of Hokkaido, as the death toll rose to 16.

Dozens are still missing with many feared buried under…

A ceasefire has been signed between armed factions fighting over the Libyan capital, the United Nations said on Tuesday, after more than a week of violence inside Tripoli.

President Donald Trump’s White House is mired in a perpetual “nervous breakdown” with staff battling to rein in the worst impulses of an angry, paranoid leader, according to an explosive new…

A South Korean presidential delegation met with North Korean officials Wednesday for talks to arrange a summit planned later this month and help rescue faltering nuclear diplomacy between…

Manfred Weber, the leader of the European People’s Party in the European Parliament, formally announced on Wednesday he is standing to be the center-right grouping’s lead candidate in next year’…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on Wednesday, in the first high-level US visit to the new government, looking to “reset” relations…

Spain put the brakes on a sale of hundreds of missiles to Saudi Arabia amid concerns about their use against civilians in the war in Yemen.

At least five protesters have been killed and 16 injured on a second day of clashes with security forces in Iraq’s city of Basra, officials say. They say at least 14 members of the security…

EU chief diplomat Federica Mogherini indicated on Monday she would not seek reappointment when her term expires next year.

The former Italian foreign minister, who has played a major…

The founder of Afghanistan’s much-feared Haqqani network, a former US ally turned fierce enemy, has died after years of ill health, a Taliban spokesman said Tuesday. Jalaluddin Haqqani was 71.…

A key opponent of high-tech, automated weapons known as “killer robots” is blaming countries like the US and Russia for blocking consensus at a UN-backed conference, where most countries wanted…

US Senate Democrats plan to hammer President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh over his views on presidential power in hearings starting on Tuesday, but the conservative judge…

Japan has been hit by its strongest typhoon in 25 years, with officials warning more than a million people to evacuate their homes.

Typhoon Jebi made landfall in western areas, bringing…

French President Emmanuel Macron hopes to draw a line under a raft of troubles plaguing his 16-month-old presidency and to re-energize his economic reform drive with a cabinet reshuffle.

Former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba, a top opposition figure who returned to the country after more than a decade, has been barred as a presidential candidate in December’s long-…

Argentina unveiled plans on Monday to raise export taxes on grains and slash the number of government ministries in a bid to balance its budget next year, as President Mauricio Macri seeks a…

Boris Johnson has savaged British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit plans, saying they would leave the UK with “diddly squat” after the negotiations and hand the EU “victory”.

The…

A massive fire on Sunday ripped through Rio de Janeiro's treasured National Museum, one of Brazil's oldest, in what the nation's president said was a "tragic" loss of knowledge and heritage.…

A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress toward democracy…

The significance of United States canceling $300 million in security assistance to the Pakistan has been downplayed by the country’s foreign minister who said the amount was a reimbursement and…

Some 400 prisoners have escaped from a facility near the Libyan capital Tripoli amid deadly violence between militia groups in the city, police say.

“The detainees were able to force…

Rival Iraqi political factions said on Sunday they had each formed alliances capable of forming a government in the new parliament after months of political uncertainty following a May election…

At least two people were hurt by gunfire Sunday as suspected paramilitaries targeted anti-government demonstrators in Nicaragua’s capital. Unidentified gunmen wounded one of the demonstrators in…