International

Germany needs to send a message to the world that it›s reaching the limit of its capacity to help Europe›s flood of migrants, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Sunday, as he…

The United Nations is expecting huge numbers of civilians to flee when Iraqi forces mount an offensive to retake the city of Mosul from Islamic State militants.

It is not clear when Iraqi…

The Bharatiya Janata Party, which rules India, has suffered crushing defeat in the provincial elections in the populous northern state of Bihar on the Gangetic plains.

Islamic State militants kidnapped and killed seven people, including three women, in the southern province of Zabul, a police official said on Sunday, amid heavy fighting in the region between the…

Voting unfolded smoothly in Myanmar on Sunday with no reports of violence to puncture a mood of jubilation marking the Southeast Asian nation's first free nationwide election in 25 years, its…

Investigators of the Russian plane crash in Egypt are “90% sure” the noise heard in the final second of a cockpit recording was an explosion caused by a bomb, a member of the investigation team…

China and Russia present different challenges for the international order, which the US is keen on protecting, the US Defense Secretary Ash Carter claimed Saturday.

As tension mounts in the South China Sea over the US military’s recent patrol challenging China’s territorial claims there, speculation has centered on what action Japan may take in the region.

The Islamic State group has released 37 Assyrian Christians from the towns of Tal Shiram and Tal Jazira, according to a monitoring group.

The Assyrian Human Rights Network, which has been…

Israeli troops raided the offices of an activist group that monitors human rights violations by Israeli military forces and Jewish settlers, and took over homes in neighboring districts, a rights…

EU leaders will push their wary African counterparts to help tackle the migration crisis at a summit in Malta this week, offering them billions of euros in aid in exchange for cooperation.

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Several working groups, including of the Russian Embassy in Cairo, the Emergencies Ministry and the Russian Federal Tourism Agency (Rostourism), were sent to the airports of …

Seven people were killed in an overnight attack at a bar in the latest violence in the Burundi capital, witnesses said Sunday. Neighbors found bloodied bodies lying on the floor after gunshots…

Locals on Yemen’s beleaguered Socotra Island have taken emergency shelter for the second time in a week as yet another tropical cyclone tracks toward them packing potentially devastating winds and…

Bombs in and around Baghdad killed at least nine people on Saturday, police and medical sources said, highlighting security challenges that include Islamist militancy and sectarian conflict.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has taken the lead in EU efforts to address the bloc's refugee crisis, announced plans on Thursday to speed her country's asylum procedures after talks with…

The leaders of China and Taiwan met Saturday for the first time since the formerly bitter Cold War foes split amid civil war 66 years ago, and though no concrete agreement resulted, both hailed…

First they said the downing of Russian Metrojet Flight 9268 was most likely due to Russia’s “notorious” regional airlines, which supposedly are rickety and unreliable.

Israeli forces have shot dead a 72-year-old Palestinian woman amid clashes across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.

On Friday afternoon, Israeli troops fatally shot Thawarat…

A former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been found dead in Washington DC, Russian state media say.

Mikhail Lesin, 57, Russia’s former press minister and a one-time head of the…

The Turkish Armed Forces has released details of a 40-day air and land operation on PKK’s mountainous bases in Turkey’s southeastern Hakkari province.

According to local army sources, the…

Black box data from the Russian plane that crashed in Egypt last week indicate it was bombed, sources said, ahead of a first update on Saturday from the Egyptian-led probe into the disaster.

Mexican authorities are investigating local security officials who put the number of unidentified victims of violent crime in a mass grave in central Mexico at 150, officials said on Friday. The…

The main city in Indian Kashmir is under a security lockdown to prevent protests during the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Police sharpshooters are stationed on the rooftops of all…

The UN weather agency warned Friday that another rare cyclone was heading towards war-ravaged Yemen which would bring more rain to areas already badly battered by cyclone Chapala.