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Former Turkish President Kenan Evren died on Saturday at the age of 97. Evren launched a coup in 1980 that overthrew the government as he went on to serve as president until 1989. He was put on…

Five people died in the northern Swiss town of Wuerenlingen after residents heard shots fired late Saturday, federal police said.

Responding officers from Aargau County Police found their…

Ceasefire efforts in Yemen after more than six weeks of Saudi-led airstrikes gathered pace after Houthi forces said they would respond positively to a Saudi-proposed truce plan. Meanwhile, a…

Boats carrying more than 500 members of Myanmar’s long-persecuted Rohingya Muslim community washed ashore in western Indonesia on Sunday, with some of the people in need of medical attention…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday paid tribute to Soviet soldiers killed in WWII as she called for cooperation with Russia amid tensions over Ukraine.

Merkel flew to Moscow to lay a…

Pope Francis, who helped broker a historic thaw between the United States and Cuba, held talks with Cuban President Raul Castro on Sunday ahead of the pontiff’s trip to both countries in September…

At least 22 people were killed after a series of suicide attacks at Shiite mosques in Iraq’s northeast, officials said.

In the town of Balad Ruz, a suicide car bomber attacked the al-Zahraa…

An Airbus A400M military plane crashed into a field 1.6 km north of San Pablo airport in Seville in southern Spain on Saturday, officials said.

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said between…

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to three years in jail on Saturday on corruption charges after a retrial in the capital, Cairo.

His sons were given four years each in…

At least 10 Iraqi policemen and 30 prisoners were killed late on Friday as dozens of inmates escaped from a prison holding 300 people charged with acts of terrorism, a security official said…

Guatemalan President Otto Perez announced his vice president, Roxana Baldetti, was resigning after one of her top aides was accused of participating in a customs bribery ring. The announcement…

Warplanes from the Saudi-led coalition struck Sanaa International Airport on Saturday, shortly after authorities in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital said it would reopen to receive…

Russia on Saturday staged a huge military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in a show of military might. Around 16,000 troops took part in the parade on Red…

Maoist rebels in India rounded up large number of villagers on Saturday and took them to undisclosed destination in forest in nearby Sukma district, hours before Indian Prime Minister Narendra…

North Korea said it has successfully tested a submarine-launched missile, which if confirmed would be a significant boost in its arsenal.

China is negotiating a military base in the strategic port of Djibouti, the country’s president said, raising the prospect of US and Chinese bases side-by-side in the tiny Horn of Africa nation.…

Relations between Germany and Israel are at a crossroads. Is it possible for the German government to continue to steadfastly support the country even as Israel continues to refuse to allow the…

The ambassadors of Norway and the Philippines were among six people killed in Pakistan on Friday after a military helicopter carrying the diplomats crashed into a school in the country’s north.

The Islamic State militants are expertly using music, video games and even children to successfully recruit young people to their violent cause; that assessment comes from the FBI …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new rightwing “government of war” is a blow to an already stagnating peace process, Palestinians said Thursday, vowing to fight it on the international…

A first group of 90 Syrian fighters have begun training with US troops in Jordan. The Pentagon forecasts it will take three years to train and arm thousands of moderate Syrian forces.

Gearing up for Saturday’s Victory Day Parade, Cuban President Raul Castro met with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Thursday.

Saudi-led warplanes struck key targets of Yemen’s Houthi forces in their northern stronghold of Saada, state media said Friday after Riyadh vowed “harsh” punishment for deadly cross-border…

British Prime Minister David Cameron won a stunning election victory, overturning poll predictions that the vote would be the closest in decades to sweep easily into office for another five years…

Only a fraction of the emergency funds the United Nations has requested for victims of Nepal’s earthquake have come in, UN officials said on Friday, as crises around the world put unprecedented…