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Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives has dropped to its lowest level in more than three years, a poll showed on Sunday, as her allies in the state of Bavaria stepped up…

How was I, a PhD student at Oxford University in 2003, linked to Tony Blair, the case for the Iraq War and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s email affair?

A parliamentary candidate of the Salafist Nour Party, the only Islamist group running for parliament, was shot dead Saturday while leaving his house in the North Sinai city of Al-Arish, security…

Afghan security forces have retaken control of Ghormach district after it was overrun by the Taliban several days ago.

On Saturday, Faryab’s deputy provincial police chief, Baryalai…

At least 40 people were injured after a massive rally attended by some 5,000 people ended in disorder near the parliament building in the Montenegrin capital of Podgorica.

Police fired tear…

Balkan countries at the front line of the migrant crisis say they could close their borders to avoid becoming buffer zones for new arrivals.

Bulgaria said it, Romania and Serbia would act…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to hold preliminary elections in the country, on the condition the move has the backing of the population, a member of Moscow’s parliamentary delegation…

Maldives police have arrested Vice President Ahmed Adeeb on suspicion of links to a blast on the presidential boat last month that President Yameen Abdul Gayoom escaped unharmed. Police spokesman…

A speeding car crashed into a crowd watching a parade in Oklahoma, killing four people, including a two-year-old boy. The driver, a 25-year-old woman identified by police as Adacia Avery Chambers…

Following a meeting with the Palestinian president and ongoing talks with other Middle East leaders, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that an agreement has been reached regarding the…

At least 290 Palestinians have been wounded by Israeli forces in the occupied Palestinian territory while marking a “Day of Rage”, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Closed-door talks between the United States and Russia on the Syrian conflict were "constructive and productive", US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday in Vienna.

Like millions of Canadians, I allowed myself to bask in the warm afterglow of our recent federal election–one that saw the triumph of 43-year-old Justin Trudeau and the end of the Harper era.

A bomb attack at Dhaka’s main Shia site has killed one person and injured nearly 80 more while they gathered for the Ashura procession. The tragedy follows a similar attack in Pakistan that killed…

At least 43 people on a bus carrying elderly day-trippers were killed early on Friday when the bus hit a truck head-on and caught fire, in France’s worst road crash in more than 30 years. The bus…

Two United Nations experts on the human rights of migrants are warning that force will not stop Europe’s migration crisis and will only fuel unscrupulous smugglers.

Two weeks after more than a hundred people were killed in an Ankara bomb attack, opposition figures are angry over an apparently enormous security lapse by the government.

UN’s special envoy for Yemen said on Friday he would immediately start working with the country’s warring parties on “the agenda, date and format” for face-to-face talks.

Ismail…

Several dozens of asteroids may approach to a hazardous distance to Earth in the next 100 years, a senior researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences’ space astronomy department said on Tuesday…

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has called an extraordinary meeting of several European leaders on Sunday to tackle the migrant crisis in the western Balkans as thousands trying…

Iraq’s ruling alliance and Shia militias have urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to request Russian airstrikes on Islamic State militants, who control large parts of the country, members of the…

Egypt’s ongoing parliamentary elections–farcical in every sense, with a turnout so far of only 2%–are further proof that Egypt is witnessing the solidification of a quasi-authoritarian system of…

The Vatican on Wednesday denied an Italian media report that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumor. “The pope is carrying out his activity with his usual high level of intensity. Spreading…

Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim boy from Texas whose teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, will move to Qatar with his family. Ahmed has accepted a scholarship from the Qatar…

The police and intelligence agencies have witnessed a slow but significant reduction in clashes and attacks all over Israel, including Beit-ul-Moqaddas over the past 10 days, acting police chief…