International

Germans took to the streets late Monday to protest anti-Islamist rallies in the eastern city of Dresden, which grew to a record size, as Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the nation to shun…

As 2014 comes to a close, it is clear that the European and international political structures that have been in place since 1989 have failed the test of time. Indeed, the world has not witnessed…

Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State (IS) militant group in Kobane, northern Syria, have seized a key district and now control 80 percent of the town, activists say.

Inspector general of the CIA David Buckley, who investigated a dispute between the agency and Congress regarding the handling of records of the CIA’s detention and interrogation activities, is…

Turkish Airlines, the last foreign airline operating in Libya, said on Tuesday it was suspending all flights to the north African country over concerns about worsening security. Turkey’s flag…

Iceland is planning to formally withdraw its EU application, the country’s prime minister told the national radio station. It also wants to lift capitals controls imposed on Iceland by Brussels…

UN troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo are taking up positions to support a planned offensive against Hutu rebels in the east after they ignored a deadline to surrender, a UN spokesman said…

Thousands of Indians have fled from their homes as fighting between India and Pakistan spread along a 200-kilometer stretch of the border in the disputed region of Kashmir.

A Libyan warplane from forces loyal to the internationally recognized government bombed a Greek-operated oil tanker anchored offshore, killing two crewmen in an escalation of a battle between the…

The weather improved Monday and divers will attempt again to locate large objects on the ocean floor believed to be the fuselage of the AirAsia flight that crashed more than one week ago, killing…

India has ceded influence in Sri Lanka to China. Could the upcoming election change that?

In less than a week, President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka will be facing the toughest political…

Turkish authorities on Monday detained at least 34 police officers in a new wave of raids over the illegal eavesdropping of top officials including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media said…

President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela said he is seeking the release of a jailed opposition leader if the United States agrees to release a Puerto Rican nationalist.

Policing the Ecuadorian embassy in London for over two years in order to prevent a possible Julian Assange escape has already cost the British taxpayers over £9 million ($13.7m), and the bill…

Deadly clashes erupted on the streets of Bangladesh Monday on the first anniversary of controversial elections as police besieged the main opposition leader in her office.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that his government would express remorse for World War II on the 70th anniversary of its end in August.

New York City police turned out in their thousands for the funeral of the second of two officers murdered last month, but in a sign of persistent tensions with Mayor Bill de Blasio, and as an…

Bad weather hampered a search on Monday for 16 Philippine seamen missing since their cargo ship sank off Vietnam, a Vietnamese rescue official said. The Bulk Jupiter, owned by Bermuda-based…

Czech President Milos Zeman slammed Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, calling him “a prime minister of war” because he is unwilling to peacefully solve the civil conflict in the country…

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee said he was leaving his weekly Fox News show so he can explore a 2016 presidential bid. Huckabee, who vied for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008…

Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that it was sending a delegation to Iraq ahead of opening an embassy in Baghdad where its last mission closed nearly 25 years ago.

When a church that once felt threatened by heliocentrism sees hydrocarbons as a threat to God’s creation, there is reason to hope that today’s science skeptics will find religion, according…

Two cargo boats with a total of more than 1,200 migrants on board were abandoned and left to drift dangerously in the Mediterranean this week - a relatively new tactic by people smugglers. The…

Switzerland is considering transporting detainees to France or Germany as its own correction facilities are overcrowded, according to the chief Swiss prison official.

The country’s justice…

Israel plans to freeze the transfer of $127.6 million in tax revenues collected on behalf of the Palestinians, following Palestine’s attempt to join the International Criminal Court, a senior…