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At least 13 people are dead and many workers still missing after a fire broke out inside a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh Saturday evening, the latest such deadly blaze in the south Asian nation.…

Indonesian rescuers on Sunday resumed their search for 86 victims still missing from the AirAsia plane that crashed on December 28 with 162 people on board, an official said.

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Islamic State militant group said they had beheaded a second Japanese hostage, journalist Kenji Goto, prompting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to vow to step up humanitarian aid to the group’s…

Iraqi Kurdish fighters and police retook an oil field in Kirkuk province Saturday that was seized by the Islamic State group overnight, and freed 24 workers who had been taken captive, officers…

Tens of thousands of longtime Palestinian refugees in a camp on the outskirts of the Syrian capital have been cut off from United Nations emergency aid for nearly two months by…

Thousands of pro-democracy activists returned to the streets of Hong Kong on Sunday for their first big rally since mass protests last year.

The number of protesters – estimated by…

As 2015 begins, the values enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are under threat. Around the world, personal liberty,…

The US and EU have advised Israel to drop its plans to construct an additional 450 settlement homes in the West Bank, warning that failure to do so would further destabilize the situation in the…

At least 40 people have been reported killed as fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels rages on in the east of the country.

Ukrainian officials say 15 soldiers and 12…

Thousands of people massed in central Madrid for a rally organized by radical Spanish leftists Podemos.

The "March for Change" is one of the party's first outdoor mass rallies, as it looks…

Three soldiers and 123 Boko Haram militants were killed when the group attacked a Chadian army contingent in northern Cameroon, Chad’s military said Friday. Twelve soldiers were also wounded in…

Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who killed four people at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Jan. 9 recorded the attack on a camera, a US intelligence official said. He recorded seven minutes of…

Venezuela introduced new regulations on Friday which would allow soldiers to open fire if they feel their lives are at risk during protests and demonstrations. Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino…

Africa’s biggest democracy is pushing ahead with its next elections. Here’s why that would be a mistake, Princeton N. Lyman, the US ambassador to Nigeria 1986-89, wrote for Foreign Policy.

Outgoing US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an interview on Friday the United States might eventually need to send non-combat ground troops to Iraq to help turn back Islamic State militants…

According to an article in the Washington Post, Imad Mughniyah was reportedly assassinated in a joint Mossad-CIA operation that required special approval from former US president George W. Bush.…

Islamic State militants on Saturday seized a small crude oil station near the northern Iraqi city Kirkuk where 15 employees were working, and explosions in and around the capital Baghdad…

The Islamic State militant group struck at Kurdish forces southwest of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Friday, while bombs in Baghdad killed at least 21 people, security and medical sources said.

Saudi Arabia's new King Salman announced a major cabinet reshuffle, a week after he acceded to the throne.

Top officials from the Ports Authority, the National Anti-Corruption Commission…

The senior US House of Representatives Democrat said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s scheduled speech to the US Congress in March could damage the Obama administration’s attempts to…

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for an attack at the Kabul airport in which a gunman shot and killed three American contractors and one Afghan man. A US and an Afghan official said the…

A gas truck explosion ripped through a maternity hospital on the western edge of Mexico City on Thursday, killing one woman and two children and injuring dozens, authorities said, with…

A powerful bomb tore through a busy Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan on Friday, killing close to 50 people in the country's deadliest sectarian attack in nearly two years.

The blast hit…

At least 27 people, mostly soldiers, have been killed in a series of attacks by militants in the north of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. Most of the casualties were in the provincial capital, El-Arish…

The state Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin said on Thursday that Russia is likely to leave the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) until the end of 2015 and added that the country…