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China is seriously concerned about the worsening situation in Yemen and wants all sides to stop fighting and resolve the dispute through talks, China's ambassador to the country was…

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said Tuesday that the two files, which are over Tel Aviv’s illegal settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and its latest devastating…

The White House briefing room and parts of two US Senate office buildings were briefly evacuated within hours of each other on Tuesday after separate bomb threats, but it was not clear if the…

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has come under fire after it emerged he took a government jet to attend the Champions League final between FC Barcelona and Juventus in Berlin on Saturday.…

With little fanfare, the German IFO Institute for Economic Research recently published a report on population projections for Germany, which states simply that the country’s population is…

Hezbollah forces repelled an attack Tuesday by Islamic State militant group in an area on the Lebanon-Syria border as a major battle between the two groups looms in the rugged mountainous region,…

The party of Yemen’s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh on Tuesday welcomed UN-brokered peace talks due to open in Switzerland at the weekend.

Police in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand said they have killed at least 12 suspected Maoist fighters in a clash.

The fighting on early Tuesday took place in the forests of Palamau…

Several Ukrainian firefighters were feared dead Tuesday outside Kiev when a ferocious blast tore through a fuel depot, sparking a gigantic fire that spread to nearby buildings.

Anti-arms trade activists are demanding the UK to stop peddling arms to Saudi Arabia, as the death toll in Yemen passes 2,000.

US President Barack Obama admitted that the US has no complete strategy for training forces to fight the IS militant group in Iraq.

The UN’s special envoy to Libya has handed the country’s rival governments a draft proposal for forming a unity government. It is seen as one of the last hopes to stop fighting and bring stability…

The public website of the US Army was hacked on Monday, forcing a temporary shutdown, officials said. The hackers posted messages demanding that the US stop training rebel fighters within Syria.…

Ours is a world of impunity. Allegations of corruption swarmed around FIFA for decades, culminating in indictments of current and former officials in the past few weeks.

Five people died in a shooting in a village in China’s northern Hebei Province, state media reported. Two police officers and the suspected gunman were among the dead, while at least three others…

Pope Francis on Sunday held a private audience with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner at the Vatican. The meeting between the Argentine pope and president was a lengthy one and…

For the first time this century, Turkey is waking up the day after a general election without knowing who will form its next government.

In Sunday’s vote, President Recep Tayyip…

US President Barack Obama huddled with allies Monday on the sidelines of an international summit to address pressing Mideast problems while trying to convince European leaders to maintain…

The Italian coast guard on Sunday said Italian, German, Swedish, Spanish and British ships rescued 5,851 migrants, mostly found about 80 km off the coast of Libya.

The rescues took place in…

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its absolute parliamentary majority in legislative elections on Sunday, while the country’s main Kurdish party gained enough support to…

Seven Pakistani soldiers and 19 Taliban fighters were killed in fighting in North Waziristan near Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, Pakistan’s military confirmed on Monday.

A military…

The US is not intending to supply offensive weapons to Kiev, White House Press Secretary Joshua Earnest said, stressing that Washington had already provided Kiev with military…

Algerian authorities arrested 17 people, including importers and bank officials, on Sunday as the country tightens control on imports and corruption to help counter the effect of low global oil…

A bomb blast hit a cattle market in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno late on Saturday, with as many as 16 people dead, hospital and military sources said, in an attack that bore the hallmarks…

Saudi-led airstrikes on the Yemeni capital killed at least 45 people on Sunday, 20 of whom were civilians, a medic said.

“At least 20 civilians and 25 soldiers and officers were killed” in…