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A 16-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli troops in eastern Beit al-Muqaddas. Israeli police said he tried to attack border patrol officers near a checkpoint.

Saudi Arabia’s billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal tweeted an unexpected message for the 100 fighter pilots involved in airstrikes against Yemen – each would be awarded a Bentley. The tweet,…

US Secretary of State John Kerry urged the Houthi forces in Yemen to participate in UN-brokered negotiations to end violence ravaging the country.

New York’s iconic Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island reopened to the public Saturday, one day after a bomb threat that led to its evacuation was declared unfounded. About 2,700 people were…

Islamic State appears to have released a promotional video for its own health service, introducing the “ISHS” - or IS Health Service. The video - apparently filmed in Raqqa General Hospital in the…

Australia has again declared war on its Indigenous people, reminiscent of the brutality that brought universal condemnation on apartheid South Africa.  Aboriginal people are to be driven from…

The Calbuco volcano in Chile erupted for the first time in almost half a century, forcing officials to evacuate residents from nearby towns.

Fourteen suspected migrants from Afghanistan and Somalia, walking in the dark along train tracks toward the European Union, were killed by a nighttime express train in a remote river gorge in…

US-led air campaign has killed at least 2,000 people in Syria since September, a monitoring group said Thursday. Most of the 2,000 killed have been Islamic State militants.

On April 27, representatives of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’s 190 member countries will meet in New York for a four-week review of the 45-year-old pact.

Late to the rescue, European leaders came through Thursday with pledges of big ships, aircraft and a tripling in funds to nearly $130 million to save lives in the Mediterranean after the deaths at…

Italian police said on Friday they were staging a “vast anti-terrorism” operation against an armed organization inspired by al-Qaeda whose members were ready to carry out attacks in Pakistan and…

A militia alliance that controls Libya’s capital has carried out airstrikes against positions of the Islamic State group in the coastal city of Sirte, an official said.

“A Fajr Libya…

Armenians on Friday marked the centenary of the killing of up to 1.5 million of their people during and after the World War I as tensions mounted over Turkey’s refusal to recognize the killings as…

The US government will provide top-flight fighter jets to Israel next year to boost its military power, US Vice President Joe Biden said during a speech in Washington. He also vowed that…

Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition pounded Houthi fighter and military bases with at least 20 airstrikes throughout Yemen on Thursday, residents said, despite Riyadh saying it was…

Mexico’s Congress approved a legal reform on Thursday that will allow foreign immigration and customs agents to bear arms while in the country, an issue that has been a source of tension with the…

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani will make his first official visit to India next week. Ghani, who has already visited China, Pakistan and the US, will be in India on April 27-28 and will meet, among…

The Afghan Taliban on Wednesday announced the start of its annual spring offensive, warning it would ramp up attacks on foreign embassies and government officials, as well as military targets,…

The director of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Michele Leonhart, will step down next month, amid allegations that the DEA agent attended parties with prostitutes, some funded by…

Among the numerous challenges the West faces, one is consistently overlooked: its addiction to meaningless rhetoric.

French police arrested a 24-year-old man who they suspected of planning an imminent attack on one or two churches, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Wednesday. Police found weapons in his…

About 400 computer experts will participate in a major cybersecurity drill in Estonia as part of NATO’s efforts to upgrade its capability to counter potentially debilitating hacker attacks. The…

Iraq’s President Fuad Masum started his official visit to Turkey along with a high-level government delegation, as regional and international developments, the fight against the Islamic State, and…

The UN expressed concern over increased people smuggling in the Mediterranean following a deadly weekend shipwreck, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel said ahead of an EU summit that “simply…