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Palestinians in Gaza were expected to protest in large numbers on Friday following deadly Israeli air attacks and artillery shelling on the besieged strip. On Wednesday, Israel killed three…

North Korea issued a forceful statement Thursday against what it said were elements of the US government which are not adhering to the spirit of the dialogue established by US President Donald…

Taliban fighters tried to overrun a provincial capital in Afghanistan early on Friday, hiding inside homes before slipping into city streets in the night to attack security forces and killing at…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks well placed to win a September ruling party leadership race, putting the conservative leader on track to become the longest-serving premier despite a…

Grief and anger has gripped Yemen's war-ravaged province of Saada after the Saudi-UAE military alliance, backed by the US, bombed a school bus carrying children heading to a Quran class on…

China claims to have successfully tested its first hypersonic aircraft, a big step forward in aerospace technology that could intensify pressure on the US military.

Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it had stopped all medical treatment programs in Canada and was working on the transfer of all Saudi patients from hospitals there, in an escalating row after…

Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has pleaded not guilty to three new counts of money laundering related to the alleged multibillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund.

A hotly contested race in Ohio for a US House of Representatives seat that has gone Republican for more than 30 years remained too close to call on Wednesday, in an encouraging sign for…

Turkey’s newly appointed deputy foreign minister, Sedat Onal, will head a delegation that will go to the United States to discuss tensions between the NATO allies, a source in the Turkish…

Hopes of finding survivors faded in quake-devastated Lombok island in Indonesia on Wednesday as a humanitarian crisis for 156,000 left homeless looms with a shortage of clean water, food and…

A wildfire burning through Northern California became the state’s largest on record on Monday, scorching more than 283,000 acres, officials said.

Rescuers on Indonesia’s island of Lombok raced against time to find survivors in the rubble of collapsed buildings after a major earthquake killed nearly 100 people.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said a terrible conflict could emerge from Georgia’s accession to the NATO bloc and noted that there was no real justification of such risk. “This…

A military coalition battling Houthi forces secured secret deals with Al-Qaeda in Yemen and recruited hundreds of the group’s fighters, a news report said on Monday.

Brazil briefly closed then reopened its northern border to Venezuelans on Monday as it struggled to contain mass migration from the South American country saddled with a crippling political and…

North Korea released a South Korean citizen detained in July after crossing the border into the North, the South’s Unification Ministry said on Tuesday.

The prisoner was a 34-year-old…

One day after coming face-to-face in federal court with his longtime boss, Rick Gates returned to the witness stand as the government’s star witness in the financial fraud trial of US President…

Saudi Arabia expelled Canada's ambassador over alleged interference in the kingdom's domestic affairs after Ottawa's foreign ministry rebuked Riyadh for jailing human rights activists.

US President Donald Trump appears to have changed his story about a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower that is pivotal to the special counsel's investigation, tweeting that his son met with a Kremlin-…

At least 40 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend during the seven hours from midnight Saturday to early Sunday morning, with four fatalities, city police said on Sunday, a stark violent…

A strong earthquake has struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok, killing at least 98 people and shaking neighboring Bali. Evacuation efforts are continuing to transport the thousands of…

Authorities detained six people suspected of using explosives-laden drones in a failed bid to assassinate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, officials said on Sunday.

Interior Minister…

North Korea believes there is a “strong possibility” of a second summit between the country’s leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump, according to an official with close knowledge of…

South Sudan’s government has reached a power-sharing agreement with the country’s main rebel group. President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed the deal in neighboring Sudan, BBC…