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US President Donald Trump signed into law on Monday the $717 billion annual defense policy bill, the earliest in the year the bill has become law in more than four decades.

A motorway bridge collapsed on Tuesday over the northern Italian port city of Genoa, killing dozens of people according to the local ambulance service, in what the transport minister said was…

A report obtained by Al Jazeera alleges that detainees in a network of clandestine prisons set up by the United Arab Emirates across southern Yemen have been exposed to a host of brutal…

A small white supremacist rally took place outside the White House on Sunday when only some 20 far-right supporters showed up, but they were massively outnumbered by counter-protesters.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to visit Berlin to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel, a German government spokesman has announced.

The battle for Afghanistan’s key city of Ghazni between Taliban fighters and security forces has intensified, with dozens of people reported killed after three days of violence.

At least nine people have been killed in a fire at a hospital in Taiwan, according to state media. The fire broke out on in a ward on the seventh floor of the hospital in New Taipei City early…

North and South Korea agreed on Monday to hold a summit in Pyongyang in September after high-level talks in the Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula.

The two sides "agreed at…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would be reelected with an even bigger majority in parliament in 2019, dismissing opposition attempts to rouse opposition against his government for…

Tens of thousands gathered on Saturday in the Romanian capital Bucharest for a second straight day after more than 450 people were hurt and around 30 arrested in a huge anti-corruption protest…

In a rare diplomatic foray and the strongest sign yet of increasing Taliban political clout in the region, the head of the insurgents’ political office led a delegation to Uzbekistan to meet…

Malians voted in a crucial election runoff on Sunday that has been marred by allegations of fraud and a tense security situation in the vast West African country.

The country held a…

The American city of Charlottesville marked the anniversary of last summer’s white supremacist violence that sent ripples through the country with largely peaceful vigils and other events, but…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged European Union nations to confront racist attitudes, and called for a joint approach to tackle the challenges posed by the inflows of migrants.

In a new reminder of the dangers in containing an Ebola outbreak in a war zone, suspected rebels killed seven people overnight in northeastern Congo and sent residents fleeing, an official said…

Israeli forces have shot dead two Palestinians, including one volunteer paramedic, according to health officials in the Gaza Strip, as protesters gathered along the Israeli border fence.

United Nations General Assembly met on Friday and approved Michelle Bachelet's appointment as the world body's new human rights chief.

Two police officers were among four people killed on Friday in a shooting that sparked panic and a police lockdown in a sleepy eastern Canadian city, as the nation grapples with rising gun…

A United Nations agency says Syria’s seven-year-long civil war has cost the country $388 billion in economic damage. UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) says it estimates…

Venezuela said on Friday it has asked Interpol to arrest an opposition politician exiled in Colombia and accused of involvement in an apparent attack against President Nicolas Maduro. “We are…

Zimbabwe’s opposition coalition has filed a legal challenge to results of the country’s recent election, in a move that delays the inauguration of Emmerson Mnangagwa as president of Zimbabwe.

UN experts say “predatory behavior” by armed groups in Libya is posing a direct threat to forming a national government and ending lawlessness that has fueled militancy, human trafficking and…

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied against the ruling Social Democrat (PSD) government on Friday in cities across Romania and the capital Bucharest where riot police fired tear gas into the…

US Vice President Mike Pence announced the Pentagon’s detailed plan for President Donald Trump’s vision of a Space Force on Thursday, which would establish the first military branch in over 70…

Nationalist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s alliance won Iraq’s legislative election in May according to a manual recount, the electoral commission said Friday, paving the way for a government to…