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At least eight people are dead and dozens injured in weeklong protests over jobs and basic services, Iraq’s Ministry of Health spokesman Saif al-Bader said Monday.

The protests started…

The United States says it will engage in direct talks with the Taliban in an effort to bring the war toward an end, upturning its previous stance that any peace negotiations would be “Afghan-led…

Human Rights Watch has urged Myanmar’s government to promptly address illegal land confiscations, compensate aggrieved parties and reform laws to protect people against future abuses.

A man wanted for questioning in the murder of a college student shot three police officers in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday during a series of firefights that began at a motel and ended with…

Eritrea reopened its embassy in Ethiopia on Monday in further evidence of a rapid thaw between two countries that a week ago ended two decades of military stalemate over a border war in which…

Pakistani authorities have opened a criminal investigation into leaders of jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s political party under an anti-terrorism law, ten days before a hotly…

Italy will allow 450 migrants who were picked up from an overcrowded boat on Saturday to disembark in Sicily. The decision was taken after Italy said that France, Germany, Malta, Portugal and…

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s long-running battle with her divided Conservative Party took a potentially more dangerous turn, as one of her former ministers began assembling lawmakers to…

US President Donald Trump sat down with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, for a long-awaited summit on Monday saying he wanted good relations with Moscow, after blaming Washington's own…

Iraqi police have fired into the air as hundreds of protesters attempted to storm the main provincial government building in Basra city during a sixth day of protests demanding better public…

British Prime Minister Theresa May warned her divided party on Sunday that there may be “no Brexit at all” if they wrecked her plan to forge a close relationship with the European Union after…

The number of Afghan civilians killed in the country’s long-running conflict hit a record high in the first six months of 2018, UN figures showed Sunday, with militant attacks and suicide bombs…

Protesters chanted and threw rocks at Chicago police Saturday night after an officer shot and killed a man in the city’s South Side hours earlier, authorities said.

At least four people…

Prime Minister of Haiti Jack Guy Lafontant has resigned after days of violent protests against fuel price rises. In a speech in the lower house of congress in the capital Port-au-Prince, he said…

Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, has visited Libya’s capital, Tripoli, to reopen the bloc’s diplomatic presence and border assistance mission.

At least two teenagers in the Gaza Strip have been killed by Israeli air raids, according to Palestinian health officials, as Israel carried out the largest daylight attack on the besieged…

US and North Korean officials met Sunday to discuss the return of remains of American soldiers killed almost seven decades ago during the Korean War, with the talks offering a chance to ease…

The UN Security Council on Friday imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan and sanctions on two military officials, ratcheting up pressure after the latest diplomatic efforts failed to end nearly…

Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif was in custody on Saturday, a day after the deadliest attacks in Pakistan's troubled election campaign killed more than 130 people, including a…

Russia’s foreign ministry said there was no evidence the 12 people indicted by the United States on Friday were linked to military intelligence or hacking into the computer networks of the US…

Thousands of people marched through the streets of Edinburgh to protest against US President Donald Trump, who stayed in Scotland over the weekend.

Police estimated the number of people…

Israel’s army said it had launched airstrikes targeting Hamas in the Gaza Strip early Saturday, following border clashes that saw a Palestinian teenager shot dead and many injured.

The…

The Iraqi government held an emergency meeting on Saturday after protests against high unemployment and a lack of basic services spread to the nation’s capital, Baghdad.

The National…

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Friday urged US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to reunite migrant families who have been separated from their parents at the border, according to Mexico’s…

Justice remains elusive a year after a network of secret prisons was first exposed in southern Yemen, Amnesty International said in a new report on July 12 that documents egregious violations…