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Media houses in Juba, South Sudan, decided on Friday to stage a media blackout for 24 hours in protest of the killing of journalist Peter Julius Moi.

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Turkey’s government is seeking to extend for one more year a parliamentary mandate that allows the military to combat Islamist State militants and Kurdish forces in neighboring Syria and Iraq, a…

Top aides to the leaders of South and North Korea met at the Panmunjom truce village straddling their border on Saturday, raising hopes for an end to a standoff that put the rivals on the…

Humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders reported on Friday Saudi-led airstrikes on a residential area in Yemen destroyed 17 buildings and left 65 civilians dead. A Saudi helicopter also crashed…

The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a US airstrike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House said on Friday, dealing a blow to the group that has sought to form a…

Somali security officials said a suicide bomber from the Al-Shabab militant group has attacked a military camp in the southern port city of Kismayo, killing at least 10 soldiers. Police said the…

Kosovo on Friday asked the UN Security Council to back its bid for membership in UNESCO. Kosovo and Serbia fought a war in 1998 and 1999 and unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said he would call snap elections after coalition talks failed following inconclusive June polls, adding he expected the vote on November 1.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras resigned from his post on Thursday calling for new elections, as the embattled leader attempted to quell dissent within his own ruling hard-left government.

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un ordered his troops onto a war footing from 5 p.m. local time on Friday after his government issued an ultimatum to Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda…

At first glance, one might think Israelis are solidly behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s all-out diplomatic war against the nuclear deal with Iran. But look closer and deep fissures appear…

Four new fires broke out in the northeastern port city of Tianjin in china where two huge blasts last week killed 116 people, state media reported Friday soon after officials said safety hazards…

A bomb next to the governor’s office in the Yemeni city of Aden killed four people on Thursday, witnesses said.

No one claimed responsibility for the blast in the main southern port city of…

A powerful car bomb blast tore through a Cairo police building Thursday injuring at least 29 people in the latest attack claimed by the Islamic State militants against Egyptian security forces.…

Turkish forces have killed 771 militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey over the last four weeks, the state news agency Anatolia said Friday.

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Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday he was considering a formal request from the US for Australia to join airstrikes in Syria against Islamic State militants. The Royal Australian…

Gunmen shot dead a South Sudan reporter in an apparently targeted attack, colleagues said Thursday, days after President Salva Kiir publicly threatened to kill journalists who reported “against…

A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people on Wednesday in an attack on Kurdish security forces in northeastern Syria claimed by the Islamic State militant group, a monitor said.

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Islamic State militants beheaded one of Syria’s most prominent antiquities scholars in the ancient town of Palmyra, then hung his body from one of the town’s Roman columns, Syrian state media and…

Nearly 110,000 migrants were tracked entering the EU in July by irregular means, official data showed, setting a record as the influx continues, notably of Syrians reaching Greek islands from…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu formally ended attempts to form the next government on Tuesday after weeks of coalition talks failed, raising the prospect of a fractious interim…

Israel’s opposition leader on Tuesday warned that a new Palestinian uprising could be looming after a recent spate of violence and called on both sides to reduce tensions and restart peace talks…

Chinese police arrested 15,000 people suspected of cybercrime, including the sale of personal data, online fraud and hacking, Chinese officials said Tuesday.

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton distanced herself Tuesday from President Barack Obama’s decision to approve offshore drilling in the Arctic, a move that quickly drew attacks…

On April 26, 2011, a meeting took place between the then Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The most pressing issue discussed at the meeting…