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A gas tanker truck ignited an inferno at a crowded industrial gas plant in Nigeria on Thursday, killing more than 100 people lining up to refill their cooking gas cylinders in time for Christmas…

A fire tore through the intensive care unit and the maternity ward of a Saudi hospital before dawn on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and injuring 123. Two of the dead were security guards…

Coalition air forces pounded positions held by the self-styled Islamic State terrorists in Ramadi on Thursday, Iraqi military statements said, in support of government troops seeking to retake the…

King Felipe VI of Spain has appealed for unity and dialogue in his Christmas Eve message after elections at the weekend produced no conclusive result. He called for “understanding and a fraternal…

The defiant southern region of Okinawa countersued Japan’s government on Friday over local resistance to a new US military base, the latest chapter in deepening mistrust between central…

A female cleaner, Zehra Yamac, 30, was killed and another wounded early Wednesday in an explosion of unknown origin beside a plane at Istanbul’s second international airport, with Turkey on high…

Hong Kong police on Wednesday charged five men, ages 18-24 years, with conspiracy to arson over a small blast in a bin outside the legislature earlier this month. No one was injured in the blast,…

French police have foiled a terror attack on police and army personnel in the region of Orleans, the interior minister has said.

Bernard Cazeneuve also said on Tuesday that two men, ages 20…

When Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani took office, it ushered in a period of hope for the country’s traumatized people that decades of violence would soon end.

But just one year later,…

French forces in Mali have killed or captured some 10 fighters belonging to a group that claimed last month’s attack on a hotel in the capital, Bamako. Earlier this week, Mali re-invoked a state…

A man has been found alive after being buried in rubble for more than two days in Shenzhen. More than 50 people are still missing following a landslide in the Chinese industrial city.

A 19-…

Five children, one woman and four men drowned when their boat sank off the small Greek island of Farmakonisi, Greek coastguard officials said early on Wednesday.

After a fiery late night debate on Tuesday, Poland’s lower house of parliament passed an amendment that critics and the supreme court say will paralyze the country’s top court and erode…

Iraq’s armed forces stormed the center of Ramadi on Tuesday, a spokesman for the counter-terrorism units said, in a drive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining stronghold in a…

Faced with an unprecedented influx of refugees and growing anxiety among voters, German authorities have stepped up the deportation of failed asylum-seekers.

New figures show that the…

A presidential runoff election in Haiti scheduled for next Sunday has been postponed pending an investigation into accusations of fraud and irregularities. The opposition says the review is biased…

Thailand’s government said on Monday it is not ignoring the slavery and forced labor in its lucrative shrimp industry that was highlighted in an AP investigation published last week.

A light aircraft has crashed on takeoff near the airport in the Indian capital, Delhi, killing 10 people. The Beechcraft King Air plane chartered by India’s Border Security Force came down after…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says his national authority proposes to change its name on passports it issues to State of Palestine. He says this will happen in about a year at the most,…

Six American troops were killed in Afghanistan on Monday when a suicide bomber on a motorbike struck their patrol near Bagram air base, officials said, the deadliest attack on US forces this year…

A Djibouti opposition group said at least 19 people were killed in clashes with police that began when people were marking a religious celebration, while the government said just nine people were…

Muslims on a bus stopped by suspected Al-Shabab militants helped disguise Christians to spare them from a massacre.

In previous attacks, the Al-Qaeda affiliate killed both Muslims and non-…

UN Yemen envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed says he is optimistic after peace talks in Switzerland between warring parties in Yemen’s conflict.

He confirmed that a new round of negotiations…

Pakistan-brokered peace talks between Afghanistan and Taliban insurgents could restart in early January after weeks of pressure from partners including the United States and China, officials in…

Belgian police have searched a home in the country’s capital and made at least one arrest. The raid was reportedly carried out in connection with the terrorist attacks in Paris last month.