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India’s top diplomat visited Pakistan on Tuesday for the first meeting with his counterpart since New Delhi called off talks last year aimed at easing the rivals’ many disputes.

Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and Shiite fighters sought to seal off Islamic State militants in Tikrit and nearby towns on Tuesday, the second day of Iraq's biggest offensive yet against a…

Thousands of mourners for the late Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov gathered for his funeral in Moscow on Friday.

The body of Nemtsov, 55, who was shot dead on a bridge in…

The differences between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were on display Monday when the two offered dramatically divergent takes on a nuclear deal with Iran…

Some 30,000 Iraqi troops and Shiite fighters backed by aircraft attacked Islamic State strongholds north of Baghdad on Monday at the start of a campaign aimed at driving them out of the…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his American counterpart John Kerry held talks in Geneva Monday to end fighting in Ukraine, where the United Nations says more than 6,000 have died in…

Tabare Vazquez was sworn in as Uruguay’s new president Sunday, succeeding the 79-year-old Jose Mujica. Vazquez, a cancer doctor with a more buttoned-down style than the outspoken Mujica, won 53.6…

A video has been released, showing the moment Los Angeles Police Department officers shoot and kill a homeless man after an altercation in central Los Angeles in the city’s Skid Row area. As the…

Fifty five years after France’s nuke tests, Saharan residents still struggle with cancers, blindness and birth defects, while Compensation scheme has aided very few victims, Johnny Magdaleno wrote…

A Saudi diplomat returned to Riyadh on Monday after he was released by kidnappers in Yemen where he spent three years as a hostage, the kingdom’s interior ministry said in a statement carried by…

Canada on Monday sent some 125 Canadian army soldiers to Eastern and Central Europe to support NATO reassurance measures, a statement on Canadian government’s website said.

The Israeli military said it had mobilized some 13,000 soldiers for an unannounced drill on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, in the first such exercise in three years.

A terse statement…

Estonia’s ruling Reform Party held a narrow lead in the Baltic country’s elections Sunday. Prime Minister Taavi Roivas, whose party has 30 seats, is set to form a coalition in the 101-member…

A delegation of Yemeni government ministers arrived in Tehran on Sunday to hold meetings with Iranian officials to discuss bilateral ties, regional developments and Yemen's internal situation,…

Greece’s leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused Spain and Portugal on Saturday of leading a conservative conspiracy to topple his anti-austerity government, saying they feared their own…

Huge new avalanches hit Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley, closing off areas that were already difficult to reach, the provincial governor said on Sunday.

An Egyptian court on Sunday ruled as unconstitutional a clause in the election law that draws voting districts, a verdict that would likely delay parliamentary elections later this month.

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It would be reassuring—sort of—to believe that Benjamin Netanyahu decided to set the US-Israel relationship on fire mainly because he fears that President Obama is selling out Israel.

An estimated 2,000 people protested on Saturday in the city of Newcastle, in northeast England, as part of a counter-demonstration against a smaller march held by the British branch of Germany’s…

Italy is to begin its annual naval exercises - known as Mare Aperto (Open Sea) - on Monday near the coast of Libya, where a breakdown in order has allowed tens of thousands of migrants to try to…

Israel reportedly bypassed the White House and asked the US Congress for the second consecutive year for an extra $317 million to be added to President Barack Obama’s budget for the next fiscal…

The jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan called on his followers to take a “historic” decision to lay down their arms, according to a statement on Saturday, a…

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced measures to limit the number of US diplomats working in the country.

Maduro said he wanted a review and reduction of American diplomatic staff…

Thousands of people gathered in central Moscow on Sunday to honor Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead on Friday.

Opposition supporters met at a point not far from…

Islamic State suicide bombers and militants struck targets on Saturday in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra, where security forces and their Shiite militia allies have been gathering for an…