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Investigators in Moscow said on Monday they were unable to retrieve information from the damaged black box of a Russian warplane shot down by Turkey last month, data the Kremlin hoped would…

Fierce fighting is continuing around the police HQ in Sangin, in the Afghan province of Helmand, as security forces try to hold off a Taliban attack.

Police Commander Mohammad Dawood told…

Armed clashes persisted on Sunday across Turkey’s southeast, where an operation by Turkish forces intensified on the sixth day of a campaign that security sources said had resulted in the death of…

Spain's major parties, taking stock after the most fragmented national election result in the country's history, embarked on Monday on potentially long and arduous talks to form a coalition…

India’s top court said on Monday it had no power to detain the youngest of the men convicted of the 2012 gang rape of a woman on a bus in New Delhi in a case that shocked the nation, a day after…

US Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton moved past the latest tempest over a breach of campaign's voter data, shifting Saturday night's debate into a fierce…

Yemeni negotiators at UN-sponsored peace talks agreed on Saturday to form a committee to oversee a fragile ceasefire but the day ended without further progress being amid strong mutual distrust,…

At least 15 rebel forces in Syria are ready to succeed the self-styled Islamic State terrorists, if it is defeated by the US-led coalition, new research suggests.

The Center on Religion and…

Tens of thousands of Poles have rallied nationwide to protest the country’s new rightwing government and its tightening grip on power.

Politicians and artists, as well as former anti-…

Following an appeal from the White House, Turkey agreed on Saturday to pull more of its soldiers out of northern Iraq, where they have been reportedly battling the self-styled Islamic State…

Spaniards are voting in a landmark election that will see more than two parties compete for power for the first time in decades.

Newcomers Podemos, an anti-austerity party, and Citizens, a…

Air France says investigators are working to confirm whether the package found on Flight 463 contained explosives.

The Boeing 777 was heading to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris from…

A narco submarine carrying 3 tons of cocaine has been captured by the Ecuadorian and Colombian navies. Drug traffickers have used submarine-like vessels to move drugs to the United States. The…

A human rights watchdog has reported that 75 people have been killed protesting a government project in the Oromia region.

The government has described the protesters as “terrorists”,…

Rescuers trying to reach an Indonesian ferry adrift in rough seas have found the bodies of two small children as well as 23 survivors, officials say.

Two ships are searching for the missing…

Lebanese resistance leader Samir Qantar was martyred in an Israeli strike that hit a building in the Damascus district of Jaramana in the early hours on Sunday, the Lebanese Hezbollah group said…

Seventy suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed in a vast operation against the group in the mainly Kurdish southeast over the past four days, the Turkish army said…

China accused the US of "serious provocation" after it flew B-52 bombers near one of the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea. Chinese military personnel were put on "high alert" during…

Let us now praise famous men... Justin Trudeau comes to mind.

“Canada is back,” the country’s new prime minister told the climate conference in Paris and closed the door on the bigoted,…

As the UN scurried to salvage an increasingly fragile ceasefire, Yemeni troops loyal to the fugitive president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi gained control of a northwestern city on Friday, residents and…

Cuba is willing to keep improving relations with the United States even though Washington has failed to meet its key demands for normalization, Cuban President Raul Castro said on Friday, a day…

NATO allies agreed on Friday to send aircraft and ships to Turkey to strengthen Ankara’s air defenses on its border with Syria, the alliance’s chief said.

Diplomats said the package is…

The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution endorsing an international roadmap for a Syria peace process, a rare show of unity among major powers on a conflict…

Rwandans have voted overwhelmingly to allow President Paul Kagame to extend his term in office, initial referendum results show.

Some 98% of voters support changing the constitution to…

A group of 20 US special forces flown to Libya had to leave after landing because of demands from a local militia group, US officials say. The troops, who had traveled to Libya to “foster…