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Mali’s interior minister says that of the 20 people killed in Friday’s attack on a luxury hotel in the capital, 18 were guests, while the remaining two were Malian police.

Salif Traore said…

The ethics committee of world soccer governing body FIFA said on Saturday it had completed its investigation into the conduct of FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA president Michel Platini and…

Russia says it has intensified its air raids on what it calls “terrorist” targets in Syria and raised to 69 the number of its aircraft there.

Turkish warplanes carried out a new wave of airstrikes on northern Iraq in the latest assault on suspected targets of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, the army said Saturday.

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A fire at a coal mine in Heilongjiang Province in northeastern China has killed 21 people, and one person is still missing. A total of 38 miners were underground when the blaze started and 16 of…

An Alpine Adventures helicopter crashed at a remote New Zealand glacier tourist spot on Saturday, killing all seven on board, police said. Rescuers had found the wreck of the helicopter in a…

Expected to discuss economic integration, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak opened the Asean summit by urging nations to combat terrorism. Maritime issues were also hinted at, with US President…

Belgian authorities have raised the terror alert level in the capital to its highest. The move, officials have said, comes in response to what they called a “serious and imminent” threat.

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The UN Security Council condemned “the horrifying terrorist attack” at the Radisson hotel in Mali’s capital in the strongest terms and expressed support to Malian authorities in their fight…

A US airstrike that targeted an Islamic State checkpoint in Iraq in March likely killed four civilians, one of whom may have been a child, the US military said on Friday in a rare statement…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Europe to unite to help refugees and fight terrorism. Merkel made the statement at the annual conference of her rightwing coalition partners, the…

A week after the deadliest attacks on France in decades, shell-shocked Parisians honored the 130 victims with candles and songs on Friday, knowing that at least one suspect is still at large and…

Bangladesh's Supreme Court has dismissed the appeals from two opposition leaders convicted of crimes committed during the war of independence with Pakistan. The men will be hanged barring clemency…

Russian lawmakers will on Friday propose tougher punishment for terrorists and discuss introducing a raft of new security measures at a rare meeting of both chambers of parliament, Russian news…

More than one million Mexicans and their families, including US-born children, returned to Mexico from 2009 to 2014 after living in the US, reversing a longstanding flow, the report by Pew…

New Zealanders have begun voting in the first of two referendums to pick a national flag. The South Pacific country may also keep its current banner, sometimes confused with Australia’s and…

French prosecutors confirmed on Thursday that the mastermind behind the Paris attacks that claimed the lives of 129 people was among those killed in a police raid the previous day.

His…

When Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US President Barack Obama in Turkey on Sunday to discuss the terrorist attacks in Paris, he brought along some photos.

South Korean leaders agreed to meet with their North Korean counterparts for a high-level government meeting to take place on November 26, the first of its kind in a joint effort to help ease…

At least 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos, backed by French and US special forces, stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako with at least 170 people inside, many…

Burundi’s ruling party says all citizens of its former colonial power, Belgium, should leave the country.

Belgium last week said those “whose presence is not essential” should leave because…

Ten southeast Asian heads of state and nine world leaders, including US President Barack Obama, are meeting on Friday in Malaysia to discuss trade and economic issues.

Malaysia tightened…

India and Saudi Arabia should bring justice to two Nepali maids allegedly gang raped and tortured by a Saudi diplomat, Amnesty International has said. The case is one of many reported abuses of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Wednesday agreed "close cooperation" between their security services after Moscow said a bomb brought down its…

Gunfire and explosions shook the Paris suburb of Saint Denis early on Wednesday, as French police surrounded an apartment where a Belgian militant suspected of masterminding last week's attacks in…