International

Conflicts and violence raging around the world sent the number of people forced to flee their homes soaring to a record 60 million last year, the United Nations said Thursday.

That is 8.3…

Escalating violence in Yemen has pushed half of the population into hunger and the situation is likely to deteriorate further, the United Nations said as it called for a blockade on…

At least 129 children were killed, with boys castrated and girls raped, during a government offensive against rebels last month in South Sudan, according to the UN children’s agency.

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The US Senate on Thursday passed a $612 billion defense bill, dropping an amendment that proposed directly arming Iraqi Kurds and local tribes.

The Senate voted 71-25 to approve the…

Niger’s government said Boko Haram militants have killed at least 38 people in southeast of the country, with most of the victims women and children.

WikiLeaks on Thursday released 276,394 new documents from the hack of Sony Pictures in what could be a further embarrassment for the Japanese media and electronics group.

The new release…

On Monday Jeb Bush, the self-described introvert, stepped onto a stage in front of a room full of US flag-waving extroverts, to announce he is officially running for president in 2016. It was a…

Saudi-led airstrikes hit a convoy of civilians fleeing fighting in southern Yemen early Wednesday, killing at least 31 people in an attack among the deadliest of the 3-month-old air campaign,…

Russia does not want to enter a costly new arms race with the United States, a top Kremlin aide said Wednesday, after President Vladimir Putin said it was boosting its nuclear arsenal.

Suleyman Demirel, one of the dominant figures in Turkey's politics for the past half-century, died early Wednesday at the age of 90.

He died of heart failure resulting from a severe…

The scenes of death and misery that are occurring with increasing frequency in the waters of the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia have focused renewed attention on one of mankind’s oldest…

The US Senate voted on Tuesday to ban the use of torture, a landmark vote intended to bar any further use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” on detainees and put into…

Seven people, including two police officers, were killed in an ambush as they left the former stronghold of the Knights Templar drug gang in western Mexico. Their vehicles were hit with grenades…

Yemen’s warring parties agreed at UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva on the need for a ceasefire but the details remain under discussion, a delegate to the discussions said late on Tuesday.

The cost of violence around the world reached a record $14.3 trillion in 2014, equivalent to the combined economies of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain and the UK, a global security report…

Egypt is facing international criticism after it upheld the death sentence against the country’s first freely elected leader, deposed president Mohamed Morsi.

The Muslim Brotherhood called…

Islamic State militants on Tuesday killed five policemen in a town near Iraq’s biggest refinery, a security official said on Wednesday. The official said the insurgents mounted the operation…

Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen killed two Saudi men accused of spying for the US and hung their bodies off a bridge on Wednesday, a day after the group announced the death of its leader in a US drone…

An Egyptian court on Tuesday confirmed a death sentence of the country's first democratically elected leader, deposed president Mohamed Morsi, on charges of conspiring with foreign militants to…

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebel group in the Philippines handed over its first batch of weapons as part of a peace process with the government of President Benigno Aquino, who hailed it as…

Bahrain sentenced opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman to four years in jail on Tuesday on charges related to alleged incitement against the ruling system, his Al-Wefaq Party said. “The regime is…

Around 40 foreign suicide bombers enter Iraq every month, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said late on Monday, calling for countries in the region to curb the flow of foreign fighters.

Hezbollah and the Syrian Army captured fresh territory from the Islamic State outside a northern Qalamoun town Tuesday, in a move that saw renewed clashes with the militant…

Talks to tackle migrant relocation plans were set to continue on Tuesday as EU interior ministers met in Luxembourg. The meeting followed a war of words between France and Italy over migrants…

At least 17 people were killed and 70 injured when a train and a lorry collided southwest of the Tunisian capital, according to the transport and interior ministries.

Most of the dead were…