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Nepal is due to formally adopt its new constitution, drawn up after years of political wrangling.The constitution will see the Himalayan nation become a secular, federal republic with seven states…

Militants affiliated with IS shot and killed an Egyptian Interior Ministry brigadier general overnight into Sunday in the North Sinai governorate, the ministry’s press service said…

Budapest has finished work on a 41-km border fence amid a spat with its neighbor, Croatia, which Hungary accused of violating its sovereignty after Croatia let a train carrying a thousand asylum…

Greece’s maverick leader Alexis Tsipras fights Sunday for a second chance to govern the struggling eurozone nation in a tense race with rival conservatives that is proving too tight to call.

Despite promises to stay away from politics during his visit to Cuba, where atheism has prevailed for decades, Pope Francis could not resist praising the rapprochement in US-Cuban relations,…

An estimated 200 protestors rallied peacefully in the Thai capital on Saturday evening local time, in defiance of the military’s ban on political gatherings.

Police kept watch but did not…

Burkina Faso will return to civilian rule and reinstate an interim government led by President Michel Kafando, Benin’s President Thomas Boni Yayi says.

The decision comes after Boni Yayi…

Russian President Vladimir Putin will discuss with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the situation in the Middle East next week, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday.

"This will…

Opposition groups Saturday vowed to challenge laws passed overnight that allow Japanese troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War II, saying the changes are a “black stain” on the…

There is little debate that last week’s UN vote to raise the Palestinian flag at its headquarters and offices was anything other than symbolic–the Palestinian representative to the UN himself…

Greece’s leftist Syriza party and conservative New Democracy party were polling almost even on Friday, the last day on which polling and campaigning were allowed ahead of Sunday’s general election…

Two people were injured late on Friday night when part of a mountain in Mecca collapsed on their home. The incident comes after 107 people were killed last week when a crane collapsed near Mecca’s…

Aircraft from a Saudi-led coalition attacked Yemen’s Interior Ministry in the capital, Sana’a, late on Friday and launched several other raids on sites in the heart of the city, residents and…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Saturday that six-party talks were still the best way to address North Korea’s nuclear issue.

He made the comments at an event to mark a decade…

The Egyptian army started flooding tunnels between blockaded Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula on Friday using water from the Mediterranean Sea, Palestinian sources said.

Subject to an…

Migrants stranded in Croatia have been making renewed efforts to head north despite moves by Slovenia and Hungary to hold them back.

Slovenian police used pepper spray on Friday night to…

Moscow said Friday it would consider any request from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to send troops, as Washington frets over an alleged Russian military buildup in the war-torn country.

After suddenly landing in the path of the biggest migration in Europe for decades, Croatia said on Friday it could no longer offer them refuge and would wave them onward, challenging the EU to…

At least six militants have been killed in an attack on a Pakistani air force base in the country’s troubled northwest. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the assault.

Gunmen…

The Vatican said on Thursday it hoped Pope Francis’s trip to Cuba would help bring an end to a 53-year-old US embargo and lead to more freedom and human rights on the communist island.

Occupy Wall Street activists marked the fourth anniversary of the birth of the movement by gathering in downtown New York City.

Federal authorities in Mexico have captured a suspected high-ranking drug cartel member who they say is implicated in last year’s disappearance of 43 college students in the state of Guerrero.…

The number of children forced to flee Boko Haram’s insurgency in Nigeria and neighboring countries has reached 1.4 million, the UN children agency UNICEF said on Friday.

Around 500,000 were…

After weeks of debates amid continuing Temple Mount clashes between the Israeli security forces and Palestinian youth, Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein has reportedly approved the use of…

Japan’s upper house is set to hold the final vote on bills to expand the role of the country’s military abroad.

They are expected to pass, despite public protests, as Prime Minister Shinzo…