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In a blistering critique, former president George H.W. Bush says onetime Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld “served the president badly” when George W. Bush was in the White House and that former vice…

In a refugee camp outside Myanmar’s provincial capital Sittwe, Soe Hlaing was holding a pink card, the most coveted of the rainbow of documents indicating citizenship status, which gives him a…

France is sending its largest warship to join operations against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. Its involvement in the campaign will shorten the time it takes for French jets to carry…

Egyptian police carried out detailed security checks on Friday at the airport in Sharm el-Sheikh, the resort from where the doomed Russian plane took off last weekend, after UK officials confirmed…

Germany’s opposition parties have criticized a deal forged by coalition partners to control migration flows in Germany, saying it produces “little concrete action.” Germany has struggled to cope…

Chemical weapons experts have determined that mustard gas was used in a Syrian town where Islamic State militants were battling another rebel group, according to a report by an international…

Vietnam agreed on Friday to invite a Japanese warship to visit its strategic Cam Ranh Bay base on the South China Sea and for the two countries to hold their first-ever joint naval exercise.

Relief aid started to be flown into Yemen on Wednesday as a rare tropical cyclone eased into a depression after wreaking havoc in parts of the war-torn country.

The Internet activity of everyone in Britain will have to be stored for a year by service providers, under new surveillance law plans.

Police and intelligence officers will be able to…

A Russian-built cargo plane with passengers on board crashed on Wednesday after taking off from the airport in South Sudan’s capital, killing dozens of people, witnesses said.

Eighteen people were killed in clashes in southeast Turkey on Wednesday, a day after the military launched airstrikes there, as violence continued to rock the mainly Kurdish region days after a…

The alleged ringleaders of Italy’s newest mafia go on trial on Thursday in a landmark case set to highlight systemic corruption in Rome and serve as a litmus test of the country’s battle against…

Two new books by Italian journalists depict a Vatican plagued by mismanagement, greed, cronyism and corruption, and where Pope Francis still faces stiff resistance from the old guard to his reform…

Indonesia has closed Bali’s international airport, which led to the cancellation of 692 flights, because of ash spewed by a volcano on a nearby island, authorities said on Wednesday. The resort…

Moscow said it worked with opposition groups in its latest Syrian airstrikes while the US said its pilots communicated with Russian aircraft, in tentative signs the powers are working together to…

The leaders of China and Taiwan will take part in the first official meeting between the two since separating in 1949. Attitudes toward Beijing have created a hostile divide in Taiwan’s political…

The prime minister of Romania has announced his resignation, following mass protests over a deadly club fire in the capital Bucharest.

In a statement on Wednesday, Ponta, who had previously…

Justin Trudeau promised in June that half his Cabinet would be female if he was elected Canada’s prime minister. Today he gets the job and the women expect him to fulfill the promise.

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Ahmed Chalabi, the man who championed the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, died of a heart attack, Iraqi state TV announced Tuesday. He was 71. Chalabi was a key player in former US president George W.…

Israel says it has shut down a Palestinian radio station in Al-Khalil. The move comes after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Palestinian leaders of stoking the violence that has plagued…

US President Barack Obama said last week the planned deployment of dozens of US special forces to Syria to advise opposition forces fighting Islamic State militants did not break his…

A rare tropical cyclone is bearing down on the Yemeni mainland bringing hurricane-force winds, heavy rain and powerful waves. Online images showed water pouring through the streets of the southern…

Iraq’s acting trade minister has sacked seven senior ministry officials wanted on graft-related charges, including the head of the grain board, two ministry officials said on Tuesday. The grain…

Russia says its warplanes have bombed Islamic State positions around the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.

A fortification, an underground bunker and anti-aircraft guns were destroyed in…

The British government on Tuesday denied it was abandoning plans for a parliamentary vote to join airstrikes in Syria as an influential committee of MPs advised against action.

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