International

The anti-Islam movement known as PEGIDA which began in Germany sprung up in Austria, drawing hundreds of supporters and counter demonstrators on to the streets of Vienna on Monday.…

Two Russians working for UTair airline have been kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region, the Russian airline and the Russian Embassy in Khartoum said on Tuesday.

UTair, which has a contract for…

Police forces in England and Wales have uploaded up to 18 million “mugshots” to a facial recognition database - despite a court ruling it could be unlawful.

They include photos of people…

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird plans to step down from his post, according to a person familiar with the decision, just months before the ruling Conservatives face the country’s voters to…

Uzbekistan is strengthening border security after receiving information that the Islamic State militant group was planning to conduct terrorist attacks in the country this spring, u…

Anti-government protesters firebombed a bus full of sleeping passengers in eastern Bangladesh on Tuesday, killing seven in spiraling political unrest against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

Hand grenades were hurled at two schools in Pakistani city Karachi on Tuesday morning.

No casualties were reported after attackers riding motorcycles targeted two private schools in the…

Via streaming video, the NSA whistleblower’s discussion with a journalist touched on national security, surveillance and their recent tumultuous years. Speaking from an undisclosed location in…

A car bomb went off near a stadium in the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe on Monday, a few minutes after President Goodluck Jonathan left a party rally there.

Islamic State militants are withdrawing from areas around the Syrian town of Kobane, a group monitoring the war said on Monday, after Kurdish and Arab fighters met little resistance as they seized…

China warned US President Barack Obama to avoid appearing with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama later this week at a prayer meeting, saying it amounted to unwanted meddling.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras ruled out seeking aid from Russia and said on Monday he would pursue negotiations for a new debt agreement with European partners, but saw little sign of…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China in May, the Indian foreign ministry announced. China is one of India’s top trading partners but they vie for regional influence and dispute…

Saudi businessman Prince Alwaleed’s new Alarab TV channel stopped programming on Monday only one day after launch. Alarab TV was set-up in Bahrain since Saudi Arabia does not allow independent…

Relations between Russia and China have reached an unprecedented high level, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi…

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed another ceasefire deal Monday in their latest effort to end 15 months of deadly fighting in a civil war that has ravaged the…

Israeli bulldozers on Monday razed several Palestinian buildings near the West Bank city of Nablus, an official said.

“An Israeli army force backed by several bulldozers raided the West…

An Egyptian court sentenced 183 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) to death on Monday on charges of killing police officers, as authorities continued their crackdown on Islamists.

NATO’s military commander and Obama administration officials appear to be moving toward supporting sending defensive weapons to Kiev’s forces fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine,…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro accused the US and Vice President Joe Biden of plotting a conspiracy against his country, according to a report on the website Ultimas…

The hostage crisis that blew up on Jan. 20 and ended so tragically taught Japan about the reality of life in a strife-filled part of the world, and the video journalist who had tried so hard to…

The United Nations mission to Iraq said Sunday that violence in the country amid the war against the extremist Islamic State group killed at least 1,375 people in January.

North Korea said on Sunday the United States had rejected an invitation to send one of its top diplomats to Pyongyang, accusing Washington of trying to shift the blame for the deadlock in…

At least seven people were killed when a blast ripped through a bus carrying Lebanese Shiite pilgrims in the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday, a monitoring group said.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Sunday his government had “lessons to learn” from a shocking state election rout in Queensland, amid growing leadership questions after his unpopular…