International

Military chiefs in the Arab states meeting for a second day in Cairo have been trying to put together a joint force to fight terrorist organizations across the Arab world. But there has been…

On April 23, the US government acknowledged killing two western hostages - US citizen Warren Weinstein and Italian citizen Giovanni Lo Porto - by a drone strike during a counterterrorism…

Thousands of people fled villages and towns along a mountain river in northwest Nepal on Sunday after it was blocked by a landslide that could burst and cause flash floods, officials said.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin officially enacted a law banning foreign "undesirable" non-governmental organizations, the Kremlin said Saturday.

The law allows authorities to bar foreign…

Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash, whose life story was turned into the Oscar-winning film 'A Beautiful Mind,' was killed in a car crash on Saturday, local media reported.

Iraqi forces regained ground from Islamic State militants in western Iraq on Sunday, advancing towards the city of Ramadi one week after it fell to the insurgents. A police major and a pro-…

A white Cleveland police officer who climbed onto the hood of a car and fired dozens of rounds at an unarmed black couple in 2012 was acquitted of voluntary manslaughter. The decision was followed…

Taliban insurgents attacked police checkpoints Sunday in volatile southern Afghanistan, killing at least 10 officers in the ongoing assault, authorities said.

A Burundian political opposition leader was shot dead in the nation’s capital, a police spokesman said Saturday. Zedi Feruzi, the leader of the UPD party, was killed along with his bodyguard in a…

Government moves to close remote indigenous communities because of alleged social problems and the cost of maintaining them is triggering a new wave of protests planned for next week across…

Spaniards went to the polls on Sunday in regional and municipal elections that could challenge the grip of the country’s two main parties.

Seats in all of the local councils are at stake,…

Mass graves and suspected human-trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand, the country’s home minister said on Sunday.

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A delegation containing several leaders of the Houthi group left for Oman, a pro-Houthi media reported on Saturday, while Yemen’s fugitive president Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi said he will not attend…

Thousands of Palestinians marched on Saturday to protest the death sentence issued in Egypt against ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi. Organizers said 5,000 people took part…

Poles voted on Sunday to choose their new president in a runoff vote. In the first round on May 10, neither Conservative challenger Andrzej Duda nor incumbent Bronislaw Komorowski gained the 50%…

The death toll in Yemen continues to mount despite a recent five-day truce meant to allow urgently needed humanitarian aid to reach thousands of people trapped by the conflict, aid agencies…

Government security forces killed 42 suspected drug cartel henchmen and suffered one fatality in a firefight in western Mexico on Friday, an official said, one of the bloodiest shootouts in a…

Borders must be "open to Syrians everywhere," including in Europe, to help ease the burden of Middle Eastern countries that have absorbed close to four million Syrian refugees, the head of the UN…

The US Senate blocked a bill that would have ended the bulk collection of Americans’ phone records by the National Security Agency (NSA). It also failed to authorize a temporary extension of the…

About 3,000 militia members in Iraq begun moving against Islamic State militants after the fall of the city of Ramadi last week, officials said. The pro-government forces said they have retaken…

Lebanon’s Hezbollah condemned a suicide attack on Friday on a Shiite Muslim mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia which killed at least 21 people and injured more than 80.

A month-long review conference on the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons ended in failure on Friday after its members were unable to overcome disagreements on an…

The death toll in China’s latest round of flooding rose to at least 57 on Saturday, including two schoolchildren aboard a bus carrying more than twice its authorized passenger load that plunged…

Venezuela will boost its diplomatic representation in Palestine to full embassy status, according to the Venezuelan minister for foreign affairs, Delcy Rodriguez.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, killing at least seven people and wounding several others, witnesses said. It was the…