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Turkey and the EU have opened another avenue of negotiations regarding Turkey’s accession into the bloc.

Turkey’s long-stalled ambitions to join the European Union have been boosted by…

A ceasefire planned for midnight has been postponed in Yemen, as violence went unabated in the country’s south. A seven-day truce was instead set to begin with peace talks in Switzerland on…

After weeks of growing tensions over the refugee crisis within Germany’s Christian Democratic Union, Chancellor Angela Merkel now seems to have reunited her party.

US President Barack Obama is open to visiting to Cuba in 2016 but first wants to see ordinary citizens there enjoy more personal freedoms, he said in an interview released on Monday.

Soldiers killed hundreds of Shia Muslims this weekend after their group stoned the convoy of Nigeria’s army chief, the Shia Islamic Movement and witnesses said Monday. Other reports put the number…

Cops and reporters have a lot in common. Both are students of human folly. They have an osmotic-parasitic relationship. And so I suppose it’s only natural that they should fall into lockstep over…

As a result of the continuing violence in Burundi, the US State Department announced it would be pulling all non-emergency US government personnel and family members of US government employees out…

The US and Italy have pressed Libya’s divided factions to lay down their weapons and back a UN-brokered peace plan. Forming a national unity government is key to the talks which may halt IS…

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front collapsed in French regional elections Sunday, failing to take a single region after dominating the first round of voting, pollsters projected. The…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled a possible warming of relations with Israel, saying the entire region would have much to gain from normalized ties.

An Australian teenager detained during raids in Melbourne in May has pleaded guilty to a terror-related charge. The 17-year-old boy pleaded guilty to engaging in an act in preparation for, or…

Ecuador and Sweden have signed a pact that would allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be questioned at Ecuador's embassy in London where he has been for more than three years, the Quito…

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday one of its warships, the destroyer Smetlivy, had been forced to fire warning shots at a Turkish vessel in the Aegean Sea to avoid a collision and that…

France is holding the second round of regional elections in which the far-right National Front, FN, is seeking to consolidate its gains from a week ago.

Marine Le Pen’s FN is leading in six…

A woman has won a seat on a municipal council for the first time in Saudi Arabia, after the kingdom lifted its ban on women taking part in elections.

Salma bint Hizab al-Oteibi won a seat…

The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has released a report on human rights abuses during the battle over Kunduz. Doctors Without Borders, MSF, has upped the death toll from US strike on its…

The rare high-level talks between North and South Korea, which ended Saturday night after two days of marathon negotiations, produced no agreement on any issues—not even an agreement on whether to…

Russian emergency services say 21 patients died when a fire swept through a home for people suffering from mental illness. Investigators have not yet determined the cause of the fire at the…

Nearly 90 people were killed during Friday’s clashes in the Burundian capital, the army said on Saturday, the worst outbreak of violence in Burundi since a failed coup in May.

At least 15 people have been killed and 64 wounded after a car bomb struck the central Syrian city of Homs. The blast happened a few days after a truce had been agreed with rebels in the Waer…

Swiss prosecutors say they have opened proceedings against two Syrians on suspicion of the “manufacture, concealment and transport of explosives and toxic gases”. A car was stopped in Geneva on…

A ceasefire in Yemen's civil war will start on Dec. 14, the eve of planned peace talks in Switzerland next week, the head of the Houthi delegation to the peace talks said on Saturday.

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North and South Korea started the second day of high-level talks at a North Korean border town on Saturday, a promising sign of reconciliation efforts after stepping away from a military standoff…

At least 848 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded following a Taliban attack on the northern city of Kunduz in September, according to a UN report that detailed the grim conditions endured by…

The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to tighten restrictions on travel to the United States by citizens of 38 nations who are allowed to enter the country without obtaining a visa.…