International

Since last month, US warplanes have struck the so-called Islamic State’s oil infrastructure in Syria in a stepped-up campaign of economic warfare that the United States estimates…

Two bombs exploded outside a hotel in Egypt housing election judges in the city of Al-Arish on Tuesday, killing at least one person, state television reported. The blasts came a day after the…

A bomb exploded outside the building of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises in the center of the Greek capital Athens early on Tuesday, police officials said. The front of the building was…

Flight attendants will stage a walkout following an entrenched battle over wages and pension provisions.

Their union has accused management of failure to “react appropriately” to employee…

French authorities on Tuesday questioned a top suspect linked to attackers who terrorized Paris, while Belgium’s capital remained locked down under threat of a possible similar attack.

A boy who was arrested for taking a homemade clock to class is seeking $15 million from his city and school.

Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was held by police and suspended from his school in Texas…

Burundi’s interior minister suspended 10 civil society groups, accusing them of fueling widespread violence in recent months, a senior official said on Tuesday.

The turmoil in the East…

US Secretary of State John Kerry made his first trip to Israel in more than a year, arriving on Tuesday in the midst of a new rash of deadly attacks that have dampened hopes for peace mediation…

Eisenhower famously sent some brusque advice to Anthony Eden in 1956 when he decided that Britain’s deceitful war in Egypt should come to an end.

“Whoa, boy!” were his words. And they…

Bahrain’s security forces tortured detainees in the years after its 2011 protests, despite a government promise to stop such abuses in the island nation, according to a new report released on…

With almost all votes counted, conservative Mauricio Macri has been confirmed as the winner in Argentina’s presidential elections after his ruling party opponent conceded defeat. Macri led Daniel…

Belgian prosecutors announced early Monday that police had detained 16 people in 22 raids, but that Paris fugitive Salah Abdeslam was not among them. Despite the raids, authorities maintained…

In Hong Kong’s first vote since mass pro-democracy street protests, the city’s democracy movement has won at least four seats in district elections. The poll could provide an insight into the 2017…

After years of delays, Israel said it would allow the Palestinians to have their own 3G network. The Palestinians are among 16 markets, including Cuba and Eritrea, that still use older 2G…

At least 104 bodies have now been recovered, with some estimates saying more than 100 people are still missing after a landslide at a jade mine in Myanmar’s northern Kachin state, Hpakant, on…

Western leaders who met on the margins of last week’s Group of 20 summit in Turkey agreed to extend sanctions imposed on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine by six months until July of next…

A landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar killed up to 70 people and left more than 100 missing, most of them villagers sifting through a huge mountain of tailings and waste, a community…

US President Barack Obama said Sunday he would go ahead with a visit to Paris for a pivotal UN summit on climate change despite the recent attacks in the French capital, urging other leaders to do…

Egyptians voted on Sunday in the second phase of elections that are meant to restore parliament after a more than three-year hiatus, but which critics say have been undermined by widespread…

The Vatican has charged five people, including two journalists and a top priest or monsignor, over the leaking and publication of secret documents.

The documents were cited in two books, by…

Two Bangladesh opposition leaders have been executed for war crimes committed during the 1971 independence struggle against Pakistan.

Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury and Ali Ahsan Mohammad…

Authorities in Crimea have said pylons carrying electricity from Ukraine to the Russian-annexed peninsula have been blown up. The destruction has left almost 2 million people without power.

Central Brussels was almost empty on Saturday night, as a terror alert led restaurants and bars to shut early amid fears of a Paris-style attack.

Soldiers patrolled the streets as a manhunt…

Investigators in Mali are hunting more than three people suspected of links to a terrorist siege at a luxury hotel in the capital that left at least 19 people dead. The government has declared a…

A Turkish Airlines flight from New York was diverted to Canada after a bomb threat, Canadian officials say. The Turkey-bound flight with 256 people on board landed safely at Halifax International…