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The Saudi-led coalition has reportedly conducted fresh airstrikes on Yemen, hours after it said it had ended a four-week air campaign against Houthi fighters.

Poland announced a deal on Tuesday to buy US Patriot surface-to-air missiles, amid rising tension with Russia. President Bronislaw Komorowski said Poland would start talks with the US to finalize…

Hong Kong’s plans for election reform were unveiled to lawmakers on Wednesday by the city’s deputy leader, Carrie Lam. The announcement prompted an immediate response from some opposition…

South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo offered to resign late on Monday amid a growing political scandal. Lee will stay in his official role until South Korean President Park Geun-hye accepts…

Syrian President Bashar Assad slammed France for alleged “terrorist” support in his country, saying Paris is not independent and has “no weight and no credibility” in the face of Washington.

The US government has agreed to give Ukraine millions of dollars in aid, including food, shelter and water, the White House confirmed. This follows a discussion between US Vice-President Joe Biden…

Italian police arrested the captain and a crew member of a migrant boat that capsized over the weekend off Libya, as the UN put the death toll at 800. The Tunisian captain and a Syrian crewmember…

An Argentine prosecutor on Monday dismissed a case against President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner that she had sought to sabotage an inquiry into the bombing of a Jewish community center in 1994…

A powerful storm hitting Australia’s New South Wales coast has killed at least three people and left thousands without power. The gusts of wind averaged 100km/h and some 30cm of rain fell in some…

A bomb exploded in front of the Spanish embassy in the Libyan capital late on Monday, residents said, the latest in a string of attacks on foreign missions in the North African country. Spain,…

Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges arising from the killing of protesters on Tuesday, nearly three years after he became Egypt’s first freely…

A bomb exploded Monday on a bus carrying UN employees in northern Somalia, killing at least 10 people and wounded many others, police and UN officials said. The al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab group…

The cold spring in Ukraine brings warning of an imminent renewal of combat in the civil war.

The first shipment of French weapons and military equipment arrived in Lebanon on Monday under a Saudi-funded deal worth $3 billion to bolster the Lebanese army’s fight against militants…

A roadside bomb claimed by the Islamic State group killed three Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula on Monday, medical and security officials said.

The blast struck on the Egyptian…

Philippine and US soldiers began their biggest combined military exercise in 15 years on Monday, in a demonstration of Washington’s commitment to its long-time ally as it rebalances to Asia in the…

An air strike on a Scud missile base in the Yemeni capital Sanaa caused a huge explosion that blew out windows in homes, residents said.

There was no immediate word of casualties from the…

EU foreign and interior ministers are due to meet in Luxembourg to discuss the deaths of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean from Africa.

Some southern European nations say the EU’s…

Finland’s parliamentary elections have now been decided. with Centre leader Juha Sipila‘s party taking 49 seats from a total of 200.

He’s pledged to create 200,000 jobs over the next 10…

On Sunday morning, a counter-terrorist operation was launched in Dagestan’s Buynaksk district. Later, the security forces blocked the house with the militants inside. In the evening, the…

A Pakistani woman was burnt alive by her husband and his father because she left home without permission – the latest example of the country’s brutal “honor killings.” Muhammad Siddique was…

Islamic State released a video on Sunday purporting to show its militants shooting and beheading what appeared to be about 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya.

An Egyptian court on Sunday took a step towards imposing the death penalty on 11 men for involvement in deadly football stadium violence in 2012, in a court session shown on television.

Death toll from the outbreak of a mysterious disease in Nigeria’s southwestern Ondo State has risen to 17 from 14 reported earlier, the state’s Health Commissioner said Saturday. “The number of…

Egypt’s ex-president Mohammed Morsi will face being sentenced to death Tuesday on charges of inciting the killing of protesters in the first verdict against him two…