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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday compared Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu to the militants who killed 17 people in Paris last week, saying both had “committed crimes…

China confirmed it is investigating a powerful intelligence chief, Ma Jian, for corruption. The Communist Party’s discipline watchdog said Ma was suspected of “serious violations” of the law. Ma…

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko agreed Thursday that the delayed talks on Ukraine conflict with leaders of Russia, France and Germany will take…

Italy’s veteran President Giorgio Napolitano resigned Wednesday, setting the stage for the election of a new head of state, a difficult process which could prove a political headache for Matteo…

The bloodshed unleashed by armed group Boko Haram on Baga, Nigeria, where hundreds of people, if not more, were killed, has raised worrying questions about the military’s continued inability to…

Close to 276,000 illegal immigrants entered the European Union last year, more than double in 2013, the bloc’s commissioner for migration and home affairs, Dimitris Avramopoulos, said Tuesday.…

The former mayor of the southwestern city of Iguala has been charged with last year’s kidnapping of 43 students who are feared to have been killed, a top security official said.

North Korea (DPRK) said Tuesday it is ready for direct talks with the United States to discuss its proposal to suspend nuclear tests. Japan says the proposal is unacceptable.

A passenger bus came under heavy fire in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people, Ukrainian authorities said, and fighting intensified around the international airport in the…

Japan’s cabinet approved the country’s largest ever defense budget on Wednesday, including plans to buy surveillance aircraft, drones and F-35 fighter jets.

Nigeria’s electoral agency said Tuesday that next month’s presidential and parliamentary elections will go ahead in three northeastern states worst hit by Boko Haram violence but there was little…

A “grand coalition” of the Labour and Conservative parties could be formed after the general election in May if neither party is able to secure a majority, Business Secretary Vince Cable claimed.…

Pope Francis gave Sri Lanka its first saint at a waterfront Mass for more half a million people in Colombo on Wednesday. Francis’ visit, the first by a pope in 20 years, has added to the sense…

In the Reagan era, conservative Republicans felt they had a powerful ally in Pope John Paul II, whose forceful anti-communism and anti-abortion stances played out in American politics.

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said his country was committed to supporting the embattled Gaza Strip and ending Israel’s eight-year blockade of the Palestinian enclave, World…

The most dramatic development in the United States in recent months was the sustained nationwide protests against two related events: the deaths of several African-American men and teenagers at…

A day after calling Islam part of Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government would use all means at its disposal to fight intolerance and discrimination, calling the exclusion of…

The Cameroonian army killed 143 Boko Haram militants who attacked a military base in the northern town of Kolofata, in what the government said was the militants’ heaviest loss yet on its…

An Egyptian court on Tuesday overturned a three-year prison sentence against ousted strongman Hosni Mubarak on corruption charges and ordered a retrial in the sole case still pending against him,…

A total of 1,400 Syrians sought refuge in Brazil last year, making them part of the largest refugee group in the country as they flee a bloody conflict, official figures show, AFP reported. The…

China supports a meeting between members of Afghanistan’s and Pakistan’s governments and representatives of the Islamist Taliban movement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on…

France will have more than 10,000 soldiers mobilized on home soil by Tuesday, defense minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Monday, amid heightened efforts to security and track down possible…

The International Criminal Police Organization, Interpol, said on Monday it had put Ukraine's ousted president Viktor Yanukovych, his son Alexander and former prime minister Nikolai Azarov on…

The Cuban government has freed all 53 of its political prisoners, as part of its normalization deal with the United States, a senior US administration official said Monday.

The United States and its allies targeted Islamic State militants in 27 air strikes in Iraq and Syria in a 24-hour period, the Combined Joint Task Force said on Monday, Reuters…