International

Award-winning Bangladeshi writer and human rights activist Taslima Nasreen has fled from India to the US after she was named as an al-Qaeda murder target, a rights group has said.

Rescue teams at the site of a capsized Chinese cruise ship on the Yangtze River have recovered dozens of bodies, DW reported. With chances of finding survivors slim, efforts are now turning to…

South Korea has confirmed the death of a fourth victim of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS. Hundreds of schools have been closed, DW reported. The latest victim was a 76-year-old man who…

There have been no uncertainties at all since the November 2002 national election about which party would come to power in Turkey.

A suicide attack using an armored vehicle packed with explosives against an Iraqi police base northwest of Baghdad killed at least 38 people on Monday, officers said.

Russia has the right to house nuclear weapons anywhere on its territory if necessary, including the option of stationing them in Crimea, a statement from the Foreign Ministry read.

The 43rd anniversary of World Environment Day will be celebrated on Friday, June 5, in over 100 countries around the world. This year’s theme aims to draw attention to the issue of sustainability…

Adoption of a bill by Israeli cabinet ministers aimed at imposing tougher penalties on stone-throwers is the latest discriminatory measure by Israel, singling out Palestinians, a Palestinian…

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi suffered a setback in local elections on Sunday, with a weaker-than-expected showing by his center-left bloc and a marked rise in support for the right-wing…

The legal authority for US spy agencies to bulk-collect Americans’ phone data has expired, after the Senate failed to reach a deal. Republican presidential hopeful Rand Paul blocked a Patriot Act…

The number of displaced people registered by the Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Displacement has reached three million, a government official said Sunday.

At least 2,600 people were killed in violence in the 18 months after the military overthrew Egypt’s first freely-elected president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013, nearly half of them supporters of the…

Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej has gone back into hospital, only a few weeks after being discharged. A statement from the palace on Sunday said he was undergoing tests at a hospital in Bangkok…

The corpse of a woman that had been stuffed in a suitcase and left in a locker at one of the world’s busiest train stations went undiscovered for a month, Japanese police said Monday. The suitcase…

With less than a week left before the June 7 parliamentary elections, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is running out of time and support to realize his dream of “Turkish-style…

The Human Rights Watch on Sunday published new evidence alleging a Saudi-led coalition is using internationally banned cluster bombs in Yemen, urging it to stop such attacks that were harming…

IS has kidnapped about 500 children in Iraq’s Anbar and Diyala provinces, local officials said Saturday.

“IS has kidnapped at least 400 children in the western province of Anbar,…

A fuel tank exploded inside a clinic in Syria in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern town of Qamishli, killing at least 25 people, including children, Syrian state television said. It said the…

Former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden, the son of US Vice President Joe Biden, has died of brain cancer. The 46-year-old who intended to run for Delaware state governor in 2016 was taken to…

US police have killed people at a rate of more than two a day this year, a level far higher than typical federal counts, The Washington Post reported Sunday.

The Post found that so far this…

IS militants launched a string of attacks on an Iraqi Army headquarters near Fallujah, killing at least 20 soldiers. The group’s suicide bombers detonated eight fortified car bombs near the army’s…

The European Union responded angrily to Russia’s entry ban against 89 European politicians, officials and military leaders.

Those banned are believed to include Secretary-General of the EU…

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in Nigeria’s Maiduguri City, killing at least 16 people, local sources said, after a night-time attack blamed on Boko Haram fighters on the…

The United Nations urged countries involved in the child sexual abuse scandal in the Central African Republic (CAR) to beef up efforts to bring those responsible to justice, after a string of…

Anti-Islam protesters, some of them heavily armed, faced off against religious rights demonstrators outside a US mosque, in a tense standoff. About 200 demonstrators from each group stood outside…