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The Islamic State released a video showing the killing of 16 men by drowning some in a cage, decapitating others with explosives, and firing a rocket-propelled grenade into a car.

The video…

The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement published on Tuesday, citing top…

Kurdish-led forces in Syria seized a town from IS on Tuesday after capturing a military base overnight while Syrian state television said on Wednesday the army and allied militia…

At least 16 elderly residents were killed and five injured after a fire engulfed a nursing home in northern Mexico. Authorities said the blaze may have been started intentionally. According to…

The Eurostar train service linking Paris and London resumed Wednesday the day after hundreds of protesting French sailors on Tuesday forced the suspension of Eurotunnel services by torching tires…

China and the United States held “candid and to-the-point” talks at the start of three days of cabinet-level meetings aimed at managing the highly complex relationship between the world’s two…

Last week’s tragic shooting at Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, that killed nine black parishioners gathered for a Bible study has renewed the…

Turkey’s new parliament on Tuesday held its first session after elections in which the ruling Justice and Development Party lost its overall majority, with the contours of a coalition government…

Journalists have established the authenticity of the first tranche of the top secret Saudi documents published by WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website said, adding that “it is just the beginning”…

Kurdish-led forces said they have captured a key military base from Islamic State in Syria’s Raqqa city. The militant group had held the base since capturing it from Syrian military last September…

More than 700 people have died from a three-day heatwave in southern Pakistan, officials said Tuesday, as medics battled to treat victims after a state of emergency was declared in hospitals.

Israeli settlers chopped down more than 70 olive trees between the towns of Yasuf and Jammain in the northern West Bank districts of Salfit and Nablus on Monday. Palestinian farmers said the…

A US airstrike on Mosul, Iraq, killed an Islamic State militant linked to the 2012 attack on a US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, the Pentagon said on Monday. The June 15 airstrike killed…

A criminal court in the Egyptian capital Cairo postponed until June 25 a trial in which the country's first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi, along with 10 others are charged with leaking…

People who manufacture weapons or invest in weapons industries are hypocrites if they call themselves Christian, Pope Francis said on Sunday. Francis issued his toughest condemnation to date of…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday urged the swift formation of a coalition government, warning he could call early elections should there be no agreement by mid-August.

The…

Four people, including two 15-year-old teenagers, were shot in a park in Jersey City, New Jersey amid a large basketball court congregation. The incident was the third mass open-air shooting in…

The Guardian recently made public a CIA document allowing the agency’s director to “approve, modify, or disapprove all proposals pertaining to human subject research.”

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An announcement by an Arab Israeli lawmaker that he plans to join a pro-Palestinian flotilla seeking to break Israel’s blockade on Gaza caused outrage Monday among Israel’s political class.

More than 20 airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition of Arab forces hit targets across Yemen late on Sunday, residents said.

EU foreign ministers formally approved Monday the launch of the first phase of a military operation against people smugglers in the Mediterranean, officials said.

The first ships and…

A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan Parliament on Monday, wounding at least 19 people and sending a plume of black smoke across Kabul, as a second district in two days fell…

A Europe-wide police team is being formed to track and block social media accounts linked to Islamic State.

A recent US study found there were at least 46,000 accounts on Twitter…

Authorities found five bodies in Mexico’s northern state of Nuevo Leon on Sunday, adding to three days of violence that left 22 people dead in the region. The bodies of three people of ages 18 to…

The Islamic State militant group has planted mines and bombs in the ancient part of the central Syrian city of Palmyra, home to Roman-era ruins, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday.