International

Saudi-led airstrikes pounded the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Tuesday, hours before a five-day truce was set to begin between the coalition of Arab nations and Houthi forces who control much of the…

US Secretary of State John Kerry was planned to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as signs emerge Moscow and the West may be ready for a detente after more than a year of tensions…

Poland’s presidential elections will go to a second round after newcomer Andrzej Duda edged out incumbent Bronislaw Komorowski. The unexpected result has shocked political commentators.

Chilean President Michelle Bachelet named a new cabinet on Monday, hoping the changes will arrest the fall in her popularity ratings and overcome scandals that have rocked her administration.

The leaders of ethnically-split Cyprus have agreed to restart peace talks in a bid to reunify the island. The election of a moderate leftist Turkish Cypriot has raised hopes of a breakthrough…

Airbus said it will continue test flights and production of its A400M military plane the despite Saturday’s crash in Spain which killed four of its employees.

The plane maker said…

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Kabul on Tuesday at the invitation of Afghan President Ashraf Ghani.

The direction of Afghan peace talks is likely to dominate the conversation…

Egypt under the leadership of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has become synonymous with the strong-arm tactics of a military dictator, and one who fears the state’s citizens. Sisi himself would no doubt…

The European Commission will make a controversial proposal on Thursday that will require EU member-states to take in refugees under a quota scheme. The UN estimates that 60,000 people have already…

US Secretary of State John Kerry flies to Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov for their first direct talks after two years filled with tension over…

North Korea made a key step in its nuclear weapons program by test-launching a ballistic missile from a submarine, but South Korea on Monday called the test "very serious and concerning" and urged…

British Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled his new cabinet on Monday after an unexpected election victory that gave his Conservative party a narrow majority in parliament for the first time in…

It was a large house with three floors and freshly painted pale blue shutters that had just been built for a family of 17. But within a few hours of work by a pair of Israeli bulldozers, all that…

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman will not attend a Camp David summit of US and the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council leaders, his foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, said, raising questions about…

Malaysia detained 1,018 Bangladeshi and Rohingya refugees after they arrived in three boats on Monday, police said, a day after Indonesian authorities rescued 600 stranded off the coast of Aceh.…

Rival armed groups in Central African Republic (CAR) agreed on Sunday to a peace accord requiring them to disarm and potentially face justice for war crimes committed during two years of conflict…

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh for the first time confirmed Sunday his alliance with the Houthi forces, also known as Ansarullah.

The China-Russia military cooperation is aimed at increasing mutual resistance to new threats and challenges, the deputy Russian defense minister, Anatoly Antonov said Monday, with…

More than 300,000 people are without “life-saving” aid in South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity state after heavy fighting forced aid agencies to withdraw, the UN has said.

Government forces have…

Sweden’s Supreme Court said Monday it had rejected an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against his arrest warrant for alleged sexual assault. Sweden issued the arrest warrant in 2010…

Francois Hollande arrived in Havana Sunday, the first French president to visit Cuba in more than a century. Hollande is also the first western leader to visit Cuba since a surprise announcement…

More than 2,000 people were fleeing their homes as Typhoon Noul approached the northern Philippines on Sunday, triggering warnings of possible flash floods, landslides and tsunami-like storm…

At least five police officers were killed and 30 injured in clashes with unidentified gunmen believed to have crossed into the Albanian-majority area of a northern Macedonian town from Kosovo.…

Why the SNP’s unprecedented landslide victory means an end to Union, Alistair Crighton wrote in an article for Al-Jazeera.

Poland voted in the first round of a presidential election on Sunday, with incumbent President Bronislaw Komorowski hoping to win a second term in office. Opinion polls suggest he will head into a…