International

Taliban militants have stormed a prison in Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province, killing police and freeing more than 350 inmates. The group has stepped up attacks on government and foreign…

More than half of voters in Japan are opposed to their government’s plans to enact legislation this month that would allow Japanese troops to fight abroad for the first time since World War Two, a…

EU member states approved on Monday plans to take military action against people smugglers in the Mediterranean, seizing and destroying boats to break up networks operating out of Libya.

…

Malaysia has arrested three suspects in connection with the investigation into a bomb blast in central Bangkok last month that killed 20 people, police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said on Monday.

Wildfires have spread rapidly through Northern California, destroying hundreds of homes, forcing thousands of people to flee and injuring four firefighters.

Driven by high winds and soaring…

Senior US and Chinese officials met to discuss cybersecurity and other issues ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington later this month, the White House said Saturday.…

Britain’s pro-Conservative newspapers on Sunday crowed that socialist Jeremy Corbyn’s crushing leadership victory would condemn the Labour Party to the opposition for a long time, while leftist…

The foreign ministers of Colombia and Venezuela agreed to renew diplomatic contacts that had been interrupted by an ongoing border crisis between the two neighbors.

Ambassadors from each…

Clashes have erupted after a number of Israeli soldiers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Beit-ul-Moqaddas, police and witnesses said.

The Israeli security personnel used tear gas…

Austria’s chancellor criticized Hungary for its handling of the refugee crisis on Saturday, likening the country’s policies to Nazi deportations during the Holocaust, as refugees complained of…

Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb near a police checkpoint in southeast Turkey early on Sunday, killing two police officers and wounding five others, security sources said, marking the latest…

Scottish nationalists will propose holding a new referendum on independence from the rest of Britain, Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday. Sturgeon said her pro-independence…

What’s wrong with America’s foreign policy discussion? With increasing challenges in both Europe and East Asia and more than a decade of setbacks in the Middle East, we’d expect a contentious and…

Cuba announced Friday that it is releasing 3,522 prisoners ahead of next week’s visit by Pope Francis, the third time Cuba has granted inmates freedom before a papal trip.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday asked Oil Minister Sherif Ismail to form a new cabinet within one week after the government submitted its resignation, a statement from the…

FIFA president Sepp Blatter sold off television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups to disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner at a knockdown price, Swiss media have claimed.

…

Britain’s opposition Labour party has elected veteran left-winger Jeremy Corbyn as its new leader. The one-time outsider succeeds Ed Miliband, who stepped down after the party’s electoral defeat…

Search teams using boats and helicopters resumed looking on Saturday for at least 16 people still missing after torrential rain and flooding across Japan this week, while thousands waited to…

Turkey’s government has lifted a curfew in the southeastern city of Cizre, the scene of heavy fighting between the army and fighters from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

The move on…

Eastern Europe rejected refugee quotas on Friday despite German warnings over the “biggest challenge” in EU history, amid disturbing footage of refugees in Hungary being fed “like animals.”

Russia called on Friday for military-to-military cooperation with the United States to avert “unintended incidents” as it stages navy exercises off the coast of Syria.

Egyptian Armed Forces have killed dozens of militants in Sinai after a car bomb attack on the peninsula, the country’s army said on its official Facebook page. An Egyptian woman and a child were…

At least 60 people were killed and 60 injured in a town in central India on Saturday when a cooking gas cylinder blew up in a restaurant and set fire to explosives stored nearby, police said. The…

The last survivor had not yet been pulled from the World Trade Center’s 200,000 tons of twisted steel when senior White House officials met to lay the legal foundation of the future war on terror…

Stephen Harper’s government has been building a legislative fence around Canada since 2006, when his Conservatives first came to power.

Now, because of Aylan Kurdi’s tiny body lying face…