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Bangladesh police have banned all protests in the capital Dhaka from Sunday until further notice and locked main opposition leader Khaleda Zia in her office, ahead of the first anniversary of…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree which lets foreign citizens serve in the Russian army as contractors.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is suffering from a lung infection and has been breathing with the aid of a tube, Saudi officials said.

The monarch, who is said to be aged about…

Gambian security forces went door-to-door in the capital Banjul in search of participants in a failed coup against the West African country's strongman President Yahya Jammeh, residents said.

Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Saturday condemned the fatal shooting by Egyptian border guards of what they said was a Palestinian minor on the Gaza border. The seventeen year-old Zaki Hopi…

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said world powers must tackle instability in Libya but stopped short of openly backing the military intervention called for by regional powers in the…

The Palestinian ambassador to the UN formally submitted Palestine’s application to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) to the UN secretary-general.

The US has imposed new sanctions on North Korea in response to a cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday, allowing…

Mock anti-terror exercises conducted by police in the state of Gujarat have sparked widespread condemnation in India. The security drills in PM Narendra Modi’s home state used fake terrorists…

Indonesian officials were hopeful Saturday they were honing in on the wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501 after sonar equipment detected two large objects on the ocean floor, more than a week after…

The Danish Defense Intelligence Service (FE) has stated its readiness to launch cyberattacks against hostile states and organizations, according to Politiken daily. Over the next 2 years some $75…

With western economic sanctions against Russia, Iran, and Cuba in the news, it is a good time to take stock of the debate on just how well such measures work. The short answer is that economic…

Pope Francis in his New Year address called on all nations to fight “modern forms of enslavement” and human trafficking, saying that millions of people today “are deprived of freedom and are…

Violence in Iraq in 2014 killed at least 12,282 civilians, making it the deadliest year since the sectarian bloodshed of 2006-07, the United Nations said in a statement.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Friday asked UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to provide assistance for resuming dialogue with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Park…

Venezuela confirmed it had entered a recession while inflation remained the highest in the Americas, and President Nicolas Maduro’s government blamed political foes for the dismal data.

Six adults and two children have been shot dead in the Canadian city of Edmonton as a man carried out what police called a "senseless mass murder" linked to "extreme domestic violence."

The…

By the end of next year, Washington plans to station about 150 tanks and armored vehicles in Europe, according to a US military commander, who said the decision was made before the Ukrainian…

Three Yemenis and two Tunisians held for more than a decade at the US military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to Kazakhstan for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, the latest in a…

A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an official with Indonesia’s search and rescue agency said, raising questions about how the disaster…

The UN Security Council on Tuesday rejected a Palestinian resolution calling for an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem (Beit ul-Muqaddas) and the establishment of a…

The number of journalists who died in targeted killings, bomb attacks or shootings around the world rose to 118 in 2014 from 105 the year before, the International Federation of Journalists said…

Flash floods and mudslides have killed at least 53 people in the central and southern Philippines, the national disaster agency said on Wednesday, after days of heavy rains that have also hit…

A veteran of previous regimes Beji Caid Essebsi was sworn in as Tunisia’s president at a ceremony in parliament on Wednesday, the AFP reported. The 88-year-old’s opponents have accused him of…

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that a widening of US sanctions against Moscow this week may hamper bilateral cooperation on issues such as Iran's nuclear program and the Syrian crisis,…