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France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Saturday he is against the European Union’s proposed new quota system for refugees, a plan calling for taking in 20,000 refugees over the next…

Immediately preceding the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948, Israel - now demanding others acknowledge its “right to exist” depopulated and destroyed over 400 …

An Egyptian court sentenced Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi and over 100 others to death Saturday over a mass prison break during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and…

American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader who helped direct the group's oil, gas and financial operations during a raid in eastern Syria, US officials said on…

Another world wonder is on the brink of destruction as IS continues its rampage through the cultural heritage of Iraq and Syria. This time it is the ancient oasis city of Palmyra in Syria, a…

The United States and China clashed over a territorial dispute in the South China Sea on Saturday, as the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi asserted its sovereignty to reclaim…

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini is to travel to the Middle East next week to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…

Russia is set to ramp up its military presence in Crimea, the country’s envoy to the Alliance said justifying the move by NATO’s “stepping up activities” in Eastern Europe. The envoy also urged…

Islamic State militants made key gains Friday, seizing a government compound in the strategic Iraqi city of Ramadi hours after allegedly massacring dozens of civilians as they closed in on Syria’s…

Hillary and Bill Clinton have earned at least $30m since January 2014, including more than $25m for delivering about 100 speeches, according to a government filing. The Clintons’ income puts them…

A US jury sentenced the Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection, sweeping aside pleas that he was just a “kid”. Three people were killed and 260 injured when the…

The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group has been killed in a US-led coalition airstrike in northern Iraq, the Iraqi ministry of defense said on Wednesday.

Turkish and Azeri armed forces started Tuesday joint military exercises in the Azeri capital Baku and the Nakhchivan exclave, the Azeri ministry of defense said in a statement. The exercises would…

At least six people died and 65 were injured when an Amtrak train bound for New York City derailed in Philadelphia Tuesday, with six cars overturning and the engine separating from the rest of the…

Sporadic incidents of aggression were reported from Yemen on Wednesday despite a ceasefire between Houthi forces and the Saudi-led coalition taking effect. The five-day halt in violence is aimed…

Gunmen killed at least 43 people on Wednesday aboard a bus in southern Pakistan bound for a Shiite community center, in the latest attack targeting the religious minority. Meanwhile dozens of…

The United States and Russia vowed to improve strained ties after “frank” talks between President Vladimir Putin and the US Secretary of State John Kerry, but there was no concrete breakthrough…

North Korea executed its defense chief by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service told lawmakers, which would be the latest…

A Burundi army general said on Wednesday President Pierre Nkurunziza has been “overthrown,” amid unrest over his bid to be re-elected for a third term.

Maj Gen Godefroid Niyombareh said a…

The district attorney in Madison, Wis., said Tuesday that no charges would be filed against a police officer in the March shooting death of an unarmed biracial teen.

District Attorney…

This week, Nepal was hoping to register another step toward normalcy. Three weeks after the country was ravaged by a magnitude-7.8 earthquake that killed more than 8,000 people, children were set…

A major earthquake hit a remote mountain region of Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least 50 people, triggering landslides and toppling buildings less than three weeks after the Himalayan nation was…

French President Francois Hollande called Monday for an end to the US embargo on Cuba, as he met with Fidel Castro during the first visit by a western leader since Washington and Havana moved to…

The US will position a special operations squadron of Osprey aircrafts at Yokota Air Base in Japan, the Defense Department said. It said the first three aircrafts will make their debut in the…

France’s far-right National Front founder Jean-Marie Le Pen, whose party membership was suspended last week by his own daughter, said he plans to set up his own political group. Party chief Marine…