International

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in Seoul on Saturday for a three-way summit with South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aimed at repairing relations…

As Turkey goes to the polls on November 1 to elect a government for the second time this year, one wonders what is it this election is going to decide.

Germany is to restrict the number of entry points for migrants arriving via Austria, in a bid to control the flow as thousands cross into Bavaria daily.

It says it has reached agreement…

North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party has said it will hold its biggest congress in decades next May. Major state policies and a reshuffle of the party’s leadership are believed to be likely topics…

Unidentified warplanes carried out airstrikes on Libya’s Sirte city, targeting areas controlled by Islamic State militants in the south and west, a witness said on Thursday.

The strikes…

The beheaded bodies of a Syrian activist opposed to the Islamic State militant group and his friend were found early Friday in the southern Turkish city of Sanliurfa, his group told AFP.

Airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition targeting the Houthis in Yemen, destroyed a hospital run by the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders this week. Although there were no deaths,…

Greek authorities say 21 people have died after two boats carrying migrants and refugees from Turkey to Greece sank overnight, in the latest deadly incidents in the eastern Aegean Sea, AP reported…

The deadly crush that occurred at the hajj near Mecca last month killed at least 2,070 people, nearly triple the number accounted for in a death toll maintained by Saudi authorities, a Reuters…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for “flexibility” at talks in Vienna between the countries backing rival sides in the Syrian civil war.

He urged the five main participants—the…

The US Navy scrambled four F/A-18 jets to intercept Russian warplanes that flew near a US aircraft carrier off the Korean peninsula, officials say.

A spokesman for the White House said the…

Tanzania’s ruling party candidate John Magufuli was declared winner of the country’s presidential election on Thursday, a result his main opposition rival rejected as rigged.

The election…

Austria on Wednesday outlined plans to build barriers including a fence at a busy border crossing to slow an influx of migrants as Germany accused Austrian authorities of shuttling groups of…

Warplanes from a Saudi-led alliance bombed the Houthi movement throughout Yemen on Wednesday and dropped weapons for its allies battling the group in the southwestern city of Taiz.

The British Broadcasting Corporation has come under criticism with an online campaign over its coverage of Israel’s aggravation against Palestinians.

The Syrian presidency said on Tuesday political initiatives could not work in Syria before terrorism is wiped out, sticking by its long-held position on how to end its war with militants after its…

China summoned the American ambassador to protest the US Navy’s sailing of a warship close to one of China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea, in an act that challenged Chinese…

Taliban militants overran a district in one of the northern Afghan provinces hit by a powerful earthquake this week, underlining the security problems that have hampered efforts to get emergency…

The US has indicated a shift in its campaign against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, including the use of direct ground raids.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said there would…

Turkish police on Wednesday stormed the offices of an opposition media firm days ahead of an election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and foe of President Recep Tayyip…

Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara won a blowout poll victory and a second five-year term in a weekend vote intended to draw a line under years of turmoil and a 2011 civil war, the…

In the first United Nations vote on a resolution condemning the US embargo against Cuba since the two countries renewed diplomatic ties in July, Cuba scored its biggest victory yet as the General…

It’s not every day you get to bust a Saudi prince. Amphetamines. Twenty-five boxes and six suitcases, all–according to photos and video–stamped with the Saudi Arabia emblem of palm tree and…

A hospital in north Yemen run by medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was bombed in a Saudi-led air strike, wrecking the facility and lightly wounding two staff members, the group said…

Rescuers were struggling to reach quake-stricken regions in Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday as officials said the combined death toll from the previous day’s earthquake rose to 311.