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South Korea fired warning shots on Wednesday near an “unidentified flying object” over its border with North Korea, a military official told Reuters, while a news agency said it was a suspected…

Turkish police detained three Russian nationals suspected of links with the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group following a suicide bomb attack in Istanbul that killed 10 tourists, Dogan…

A Chinese court has sentenced the ex-official Li Dongsheng to prison for accepting bribes. Chinese state media reported on Monday that Li Dongsheng, the former vice public security minister, was…

President Barack Obama will present an agenda for his final year in office and beyond on Tuesday in his last State of the Union address, aimed at generating support for a Pacific trade pact,…

Footage of a North Korean submarine-launched ballistic missile test released by Pyongyang two days after it announced it had conducted the country’s fourth nuclear test last week was faked,…

Venezuela’s top court has said it will void any action taken by the country’s legislature until three opposition lawmakers are removed from office. Opposition parties gained a majority in the…

Germany has been sending an increasing number of migrants back to Austria every day since the beginning of the month, Austrian police say.

Many had no valid documents, while others did not…

The first images of the fugitive Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam are said to have emerged, according to French news channel BFM TV.

The images were captured on the morning of 14…

The UN said on Monday the situation in Madaya was desperate with hundreds of people in need of immediate evacuation. The same day aid trucks carrying food and medical supplies arrived in the…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group claimed carrying out the Baghdad mall attack that killed 18 people on Monday.

Gunmen stormed into the Jawhara Mall after setting off a car bomb…

Five Australians have been killed in a road accident in India, amid reports they were members of a family on their way to the Taj Mahal in the city of Agra. The tire burst on their SUV causing the…

Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion announced on Monday that Colin Rutherford had been set free after being held by the Taliban since 2010. Dion didn’t share any details about the operation to…

A Syrian suicide bomber is thought to be responsible for an attack which killed at least ten people including foreigners in the heart of Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet tourist district on Tuesday…

Russia wants to fight terrorism jointly with the rest of the world, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Monday, while again accusing the West of exacerbating international…

Turkish security forces on Sunday said a total of 448 members of the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party were killed since mid-December, the Turkish Army said in a statement on Sunday.

The…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looked Monday to present his country’s recent nuclear test as a propaganda victory, praising his scientists and vowing more nuclear bombs a day after the US flew a…

The so-called jungle camp in Calais may be a refuge for returning militants to “hide in plain sight” before “smuggling themselves” into the UK, a former head of police counter-terrorism has said…

The conservative New Democracy party has voted in no-nonsense reformer Kyriakos Mitsotakis as its new leader. The Harvard-educated economist is expected to challenge Greece’s charismatic Prime…

A key gathering opened on Monday in Islamabad in which four major countries, namely Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States, hope to lay the roadmap to peace for the war-shattered…

Mexico is formally starting extradition proceedings against captured drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the government said late on Sunday, in the strongest sign yet it intends to send him to…

The new leader of the government in the Spanish region of Catalonia has pledged to continue his predecessor Artur Mas’s plans to secede within 18 months.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said he is aiming to reach a deal on the UK’s membership in the European Union next month, paving the way for a national vote on whether to withdraw from the…

Egypt’s new parliament held its opening session on Sunday, state television reported, more than three years after a court dissolved the old Islamist-dominated chamber. The body is expected to…

Afghan security forces have retaken a district in the north of the country, killing 30 Taliban fighters and capturing vehicles and weapons from the insurgents, the defense ministry said on Sunday…

Two people have died and hundreds of homes have been razed in a huge bushfire in Australia. Firefighters continue to battle the out-of-control blaze, but eased weather conditions may offer a…