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Dumped Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull will quit parliament this week, reports said Tuesday, in another headache for Australia’s rattled government which will temporarily lose its…

Brazil’s Supreme Court will weigh in September an appeal by jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be set free so he can join the presidential campaign already underway, a court…

Russia agreed to postpone a Moscow peace conference on Afghanistan amid opposition from the Kabul government, even as the Taliban had agreed to attend.

The United Nations has accused the Saudi-UAE military alliance of committing possible war crimes in Yemen, adding there was little evidence of any attempt to minimize civilian casualties.

French President Emmanuel Macron told France's overseas ambassadors gathered in Paris on Monday that Europe can "no longer rely" upon the US for its security. "It is up to us today to take our…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe officially announced his candidacy for president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sunday during a trip to southern Japan.

“I am determined to…

South Korea said on Monday the abrupt cancellation of United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s trip to North Korea is having an “effect” on a controversial inter-Korean liaison office it…

Two people were killed, and at least another 11 injured in a mass shooting that erupted Sunday afternoon at a Madden NFL esports tournament in a popular area of Jacksonville, Florida, sheriff’s…

An anti-corruption referendum in Colombia drew millions to the polls Sunday but fell just short of a required participation threshold to push forward measures aimed at improving transparency and…

Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent" and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for orchestrating the…

The leader of the self-styled Islamic State terror group in Afghanistan was killed in airstrikes in eastern Nangarhar province, the fourth head of the armed group to die since it emerged in the…

Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop resigned from new Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s cabinet on Sunday, two days after a bruising leadership battle that toppled former premier Malcolm…

Hundreds of Venezuelans have requested asylum in Peru, an official has said, just hours after the country tightened its entry requirements.

New rules require Venezuelans trying to enter…

US President Donald Trump publicly criticized his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, again on Saturday, saying this time that Sessions does not understand what is happening beneath him at the…

John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee and Vietnam War veteran who was a senior voice on defense and foreign policy in the US Senate, has died at the age of 81.

McCain…

Italy allowed all 150 migrants to leave a rescue ship that had been docked for five days at a Sicilian port amid a five-day standoff between the Italian government and the EU. Italy’s far-right…

With nine months to go before European parliament elections, France’s President Emmanuel Macron will on Monday renew his plea for a more integrated EU, against a global wave of nationalism.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday rejected the resignations of the intelligence chief and the interior and defense ministers, as the government faces fierce criticism over an increasingly…

Bulgarian authorities say a tourist bus has flipped over on a highway near Sofia, the capital, killing at least 16 people and leaving 26 others injured. Police said a bus carrying tourists on a…

Thousands of Rohingya refugees staged angry protests for "justice" Saturday on the first anniversary of a Myanmar military crackdown that sparked a mass exodus to camps in Bangladesh.

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A suicide attacker killed at least three people on Saturday by detonating explosives near the office of Afghanistan’s election commission in the eastern city of Jalalabad, where dozens of…

Zimbabwe’s constitutional court has upheld President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s win in the July 30 presidential election.

The main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa brought a case before the…

At least 19 people were killed and 18 injured in a fire at a resort hotel in China’s northeastern city of Harbin early on Saturday, the local government said. According to an official report on…

US President Donald Trump said Friday he has directed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to delay a planned trip to North Korea, citing insufficient progress on denuclearization.

Trump put…

The United States has cut more than $200 million in economic aid to Palestinians, in a move that comes months after also drastically cutting its contribution to the United Nations Relief and…