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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani nominated ministers for his new cabinet on Monday, after a wait of more than three months.

Many government institutions have been all-but-paralyzed for a year…

The world outpouring of sympathy after the deadly “Charlie Hebdo” attack has touched many in France but some detect a note of hypocrisy or feel squeamish about supporting a satirical…

Haiti’s President Michel Martelly and some of the country’s opposition parties have struck a deal to hold new elections by late this year, aimed at defusing a political crisis that had the nation…

Two female suicide bombers struck a crowded market in north-east Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said she is ready to hold a summit meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un without any precondition and urged Pyongyang to promptly return to dialogue.

The United States is spending more than $300 million a year on Afghan police officer salaries despite a significant risk that the funds are being wasted and abused, a US government watchdog said…

Opposition challenger Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic was elected as Croatia’s first female president, narrowly winning a tight run-off vote with a pledge to kickstart the EU country’s ailing economy.

Several political factions, including Hamas movement, who met in Gaza on Sunday called on the Palestinian unity government to prepare for holding the Palestinian elections.

Veteran Algerian militant and former al-Qaeda fighter Mokhtar Belmokhtar praised the deadly assault on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo and urged Muslims in the West to carry out similar attacks…

UK Prime Minister David Cameron will lose the general election in May because the right-wing vote is divided, a former aide claimed. Alex Deane, who was chief of staff of the Conservative Party in…

Islamic State militants killed at least 24 members of the Kurdish security forces in a surprise attack in northern Iraq, Kurdish officials said, in one of the deadliest single battles for the…

A suicide bomb attack in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli killed nine people and wounded more than 30, in the latest violence linked to Syria's civil war. The Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's Syrian…

Dozens of world leaders linked arms leading big crowds of French citizens in an unprecedented march under high security to pay tribute to victims of France attacks.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is to pay a two-day visit to US President Barack Obama in Washington DC, the White House has said. The two leaders will have a working dinner at the White…

With the end of the war, the country faces an uncertain future. The war in Afghanistan – for America, the longest war in its history – has ended.

The US plans to send 3,000 more troops and over 150 tanks to Europe by the end of the year to bolster its presence in the region, a top commander announced.

The US, which already has around…

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir launched his bid for reelection Sunday, facing little threat to his quarter century in power despite an ailing economy, multiple insurgencies and allegations of…

Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu invited Jews from France and the rest of Europe to immigrate to the state of Israel, referring to what he sees as a “rising tide of anti-Semitism”, while…

Yemeni protesters took to the streets in capital Sanaa and other cities on Saturday to demand – for the first time - the resignation of President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while condemning attacks…

A German newspaper in the northern city of Hamburg that reprinted cartoons from French magazine Charlie Hebdo has been the target of an apparent arson attack. Authorities said no one was injured.…

At least 59 people have been killed after an oil tanker crashed into a passenger bus in southern Pakistan, igniting a fierce blaze, medical sources said. The victims included women and…

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has started its regular military drills in the waters adjacent to the Korean Peninsula, the Chinese ministry of national defense said in a statement…

Warring factions in Libya have agreed to a new round of UN-backed negotiations to attempt to end the conflict destabilizing the North African country three years after its civil war ousted Muammar…

Two men have been arrested after counter-terrorism raids in Sydney, Australian officials said, following long-running investigations into those backing fighters involved in conflicts such as Iraq…

The London cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri was sentenced to life in a US prison on Friday on charge of having a role in the 1998 kidnapping of Western tourists in Yemen that left four hostages…