International

Government and opposition representatives from Burundi held their first day of talks in Uganda in a bid to restart negotiations called to end months of violence, which has stoked fears of a return…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has set up departments to handle “war spoils”, including slaves and the exploitation of natural resources such as oil, creating the trappings of…

Boko Haram struck a city and a town in northeastern Nigeria with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers on Monday, killing at least 80 people.

Central American countries have agreed on a “pilot plan” to allow thousands of US-bound Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica to continue their journey next month, the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry…

Syrian troops backed by heavy aerial bombardment pushed toward a strategic town in southern province of Deraa on Tuesday after capturing a nearby military base, the army said.

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a government office in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 45. A breakaway Taliban group quickly claimed the…

Russian air forces have not hit civilian targets since they started a bombing campaign in Syria nearly three months ago, a senior Russian officer said in an interview with Rossiya 24 television.…

Tens of thousands of civilians in southeast Turkey have been caught in the middle as government forces and Kurdish militants battle it out in urban areas, which violence has shattered hopes of…

A mother of five and a teenager were killed when police responded to a domestic disturbance call on the city’s West Side. Chicago’s police is already under investigation after a white officer…

Pakistan’s powerful army chief left for Kabul on Sunday amid efforts to revive peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. Military spokesman Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said on…

A UN-brokered deal to evacuate more than 2,000 self-styled Islamic State terrorists and other militants from rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Saturday has been delayed after the killing of an…

Vienna police have announced that a “friendly” intelligence service had warned several European capitals about the possibility of an attack before the New Year. The warning came six weeks after…

Eight people are reported to have been killed in Texas after new tornadoes, raising the death toll to 26 in a week of storms in several US states.

Local media said five people in cars were…

The owner of a gypsum mine in China’s eastern Shandong province has killed himself, as rescuers try to reach 17 miners who have been trapped for two days, state media report.

One person…

More than 150,000 people in Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil have been driven from their homes by some of the worst flooding in years. Heavy summer rains have caused rivers to swell across…

Europe needs to regain control of its borders, Germany’s foreign minister was quoted on Saturday as saying, after reports that forged Syrian passports are in the hands of the self-styled…

A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, with tremors felt as far away as India.  According to the US Geological Survey, the quake’s epicenter was in the northern…

One month before peace talks are scheduled to begin between the Syrian government and opposition rebel groups, a Syrian airstrike killed a top extremist commander in the outskirts of Damascus,…

As many as 50 people are feared dead and dozens missing at the jade mines in Hpakant, Kachin state, 350 km north of the city of Mandalay—at the heart of Myanmar’s billion dollar jade industry,…

Demonstrators ransacked the building and set fire to copies of the holy Qur’an, hours after hooded youths clashed with police in the capital Ajaccio. On Friday, a Muslim prayer room was vandalized…

Pope Francis has warned the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics not to be “intoxicated” by possessions in his annual Christmas homily. He called for more sobriety in a world obsessed by “…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise stopover in Pakistan on Friday to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, the first time an Indian premier has visited the rival nation in over a…

At least 18 migrants, including six children, have drowned trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey.

Of the more than a million migrants who have reached Europe this year, 820…

At least 11 people have been killed after severe storms hit several southern US states, damaging homes, cars and businesses. Forecasters have blamed unseasonably warm weather.

Local media…

Islamic State has sanctioned the harvesting of human organs in a previously undisclosed ruling by the group’s Islamic scholars, raising concerns that the violent extremist group may be trafficking…