International

Earlier this month, President Barack Obama announced the restoration of diplomatic relations with Cuba after more than five decades of a misguided policy which my uncle, John F. Kennedy, and my…

Pakistani police have detained the alleged Mumbai attacks mastermind in an unrelated kidnapping case, a day after a court ordered his release.

Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi has spent six years in…

The US is conducting an oil war to destroy Russia and Venezuela, the latter country’s President Nicolas Maduro said on Monday.

One more objective pursued by Washington is to…

Indonesian rescuers searching for a missing AirAsia plane carrying 162 people pulled bodies and wreckage from the sea off the coast of Borneo on Tuesday as relatives of those on board broke down…

Gambian soldiers launched a foiled coup bid in the capital Banjul overnight while President Yahya Jammeh was abroad, military and diplomatic sources said Tuesday.

“The presidential palace…

A healthcare worker who has just returned from West Africa has been diagnosed with Ebola and is being treated in hospital in Glasgow. The woman, who arrived from Sierra Leone on Sunday night, is…

A 25-year-old black man killed by police in Los Angeles was shot three times, including in the back at close range, a post-mortem report has found. Ezell Ford was killed in August after a struggle…

South Korea has offered to resume high-level talks next month with North Korea on a range of issues, to prepare for a "peaceful unification".

Unification Minister Ryoo Kihl-jae said he…

The IS militant group has killed 1,878 people in Syria during the past six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based calling itself Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said…

Bahrain’s main opposition movement, al-Wefaq, says its leader has been arrested after a day of questioning at the interior ministry.

Sheikh Ali Salman was summoned for questioning about “…

A Pakistani court on Monday suspended a detention order on the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, government lawyers said, a move likely to further inflame tensions with India.

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A missing AirAsia jet carrying 162 people could be at the bottom of the sea after it was presumed to have crashed off the Indonesian coast, an official said on Monday, as countries around Asia…

The Taliban responded scornfully Monday to the formal end of NATO’s war in Afghanistan, describing the US-led mission as a “fire of barbarism and cruelty” that had drowned the country “in a pool…

Some 1,000 suspected Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria attacked five towns in northern Cameroon over the weekend and briefly occupied a military camp on before being removed by the air force, an…

Ivo Josipovic faces a tight run-off next month to try to win a second five-year term as Croatia’s president after failing to secure a majority from voters frustrated by the country’s economic…

Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded three others in a drive-by attack on a patrol in Egypt’s second city Alexandria on Sunday. The attack comes a day after another policeman was killed in a…

Four people have died of bird flu in Libya in recent days. A fifth person suspected of having contracted the virus is currently in hospital. The H5N1 strain of bird flu has killed more than 400…

Croatians voted on Sunday to elect a new president, with the poll seen as a test for the main political parties.

The incumbent, Ivo Josipovic, is one of four candidates. He was nominated by…

Japan plans to draw up a law to speed the deployment of troops overseas for peacekeeping operations and to support allies, reports said Sunday, in a move that could strain relations with neighbors…

The United States and NATO marked the formal end of the war in Afghanistan on Sunday with a ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as…

Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal on Saturday praised Turkey as a “source of power” for all Muslims in gratitude to Turkey’s leaders for supporting the Palestinian cause.

Mashaal paid a surprise…

Aircraft and ships that spent several hours searching Indonesian waters turned up no sign of an AirAsia plane that disappeared Sunday with 162 people on board in airspace possibly thick with dense…

North Korea blamed Washington on Saturday for Internet outages that it has experienced during a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures.

The latest IS-appointed governor of Mosul was killed in coalition airstrikes, according to Iraqi police.

Hassan Saeed Al-Jabouri, also known as Abu Taluut, was killed 18 miles south of…

Malaysia is battling some of the worst floods in decades along its east coast, which have killed at least five people.

More than 100,000 people have been forced from their homes, and Prime…