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UN officials have openly criticized the “the virtual silence” with regard to civilian suffering in the Yemeni conflict from the world community, warning that unless violence on the ground is…

Following Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour’s new leader, the news in Israel was bleak.

Mexico’s foreign minister has arrived in Cairo after Egyptian security forces mistakenly killed at least eight Mexican tourists on a desert safari.

Secretary of Foreign Affairs Claudia Ruiz…

At least 38 people were killed in Aleppo on Tuesday when Syrian militants shelled three government-held neighborhoods in the west of the city. Among the dead were said to be 14 children.

The UN General Assembly has convened. Cuba’s President Raul Castro is on the UN assembly list of speakers for the General Debate later this month, along with Pope Francis.

Nigeria’s president says the government is talking to the extremist group Boko Haram about the more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls.

The UN refugee agency said it was “deeply disappointed” Tuesday at the EU’s failure to reach agreement on relocating 120,000 refugees under a quota system.

Turkish prosecutors have begun investigating a leading media group for “terrorist propaganda” over its coverage of the fighting between government forces and Kurdish militants Tuesday.

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said on Tuesday there had been important gestures made from Venezuela that could help facilitate a meeting with its President Nicolas Maduro to end a…

US President Barack Obama will host Chinese President Xi Jingping for a state visit on Sept. 25.

The European Union should put financial pressure on member states that oppose binding quotas for relocating thousands of refugees throughout the bloc, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere…

South Sudan's president urged his people on Tuesday to "join hands" in implementing a peace deal to end more than 20 months of conflict, after repeated outbreaks of fighting since rebels and the…

Palestinians and Israeli forces clashed at Al-Aqsa Mosque for a third straight day, as Israeli forces were seen on the roof of the holy site.

Suleiman Ahmad, the president of Beit-ul-…

Russia has positioned about half a dozen tanks at an airfield at the center of a military buildup in Syria, two US officials said on Monday.

The Pentagon declined to directly comment on the…

Hungary has introduced tough new laws to stop refugees crossing into the country via “green borders,” claiming it was necessary to control the influx. Passport checks have now been reintroduced…

A day after threatening long-range rocket launches, North Korea declared Tuesday that it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel plants so it can produce more–and more sophisticated–…

Thirty-two countries on Monday raised the alarm over the human rights situation in Bahrain, urging Manama to investigate reports of torture and other abuses and to bring the perpetrators to…

New Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has promised to focus on stability and improving a faltering economy as the public woke up to their fourth leader in two years. Turnbull was…

Mexico’s ambassador to Egypt, Jorge Alvarez Fuentes, told local media that two dead Mexican citizens in the attack in Egypt have been identified as Luis Barajas Fernandez and Maria de Lourdes…

As global powers remain preoccupied with the fight against the Islamic State, nuclear South Asia has quietly slipped into crisis mode.

Seven months after surviving a no-confidence vote, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was toppled Monday in a leadership challenge from his popular former communications minister.

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Egyptian security forces have killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists, after mistakenly targeting their convoy while pursuing fighters in the country’s Western Desert.

A joint police…

The ironies of history never fail to surprise. Measured by any criteria, Jeremy Corbyn is the most left-wing leader in the history of the Labour Party. He understands that those who do evil abroad…

The Colombian defense ministry says Venezuelan jets crossed several kilometers into Colombian airspace. Radars “detected the entry to Colombian territory of two Venezuelan military aircraft in the…

A Saudi pilot was killed after his helicopter crashed during a training mission in Taif and five troops died in border fire from Yemen. The kingdom’s military officials confirmed the deaths in a…