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A treaty laying down international rules for the $85 billion dollar global arms trade goes into force on Wednesday with campaigners vowing to make sure it is strictly implemented.

The…

Former minister from Tunisia’s years under dictatorship Beji Caid Essebsi has won the country’s election in the first presidential vote after an uprising that ousted autocrat Zine El-Abidine…

More than 7,500 people have now died from the Ebola virus, as the number of cases climbs towards 20,000, the World Health Organization said Monday.

The UN health agency reported that as of…

Syria has authorized the delivery of medicine to insurgent-held areas of Aleppo, the World Health Organization says. WHO official Elizabeth Hoff said the government had also promised access to the…

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday oversaw the successful test-launch of Russia’s newest heavy-class Angara rocket. The president oversaw by video link the launch of the Angara-A5, which is…

The United States has delivered 10 Apache helicopters to Egypt in recent weeks after lifting part of a freeze on aid to the north African nation, a US official said Saturday. US Secretary of State…

Polls opened in Uzbekistan early Sunday for parliamentary elections in the ex-Soviet Central Asian state where all four competing parties support President Islam Karimov’s policies. More than 20…

Tunisians voted Sunday in the runoff of the first free presidential election in the country’s history, the final leg of an at times bumpy four-year transition from dictatorship.

The second…

Thousands of members of Nigeria’s extremist Boko Haram group strike across the border in Cameroon, with coordinated attacks on border towns, a troop convoy and a major barracks.

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Countries east of the Mediterranean Sea have sustained economic losses amounting to $35 billion due to the Syrian war and the rise of the IS group, the World Bank revealed.

The countries…

Four Afghan prisoners in Guantanamo Bay have been sent back to their home country, the Pentagon says.

Shawali Khan, Khi Ali Gul, Abdul Ghani and Mohammed Zahir were repatriated after a…

President Raul Castro demanded on Saturday that the United States respect Cuba’s communist rule as the two countries work to restore diplomatic ties, and warned that Cuban-American exiles might…

Russia will not be intimidated over its actions in Ukraine and Crimea, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday as his foreign ministry warned that it was preparing to retaliate against…

The death toll from Ebola in the three worst-affected countries in West Africa has risen to 7,373 among 19,031 cases known to date there, the World Health Organization said on Saturday.

A gunman has shot dead two police officers sitting inside a patrol car in New York before killing himself.

The head of the New York police said the men had been “targeted for their uniform…

Having slapped Crimea and Sevastopol with new investment restrictions, the EU stopped short of introducing new sanctions against Russia’s mainland, with political heavyweights including France and…

The United States said on Thursday a cyber attack on Sony Pictures was a serious national security matter and the Obama administration was considering a proportional response, although the White…

Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have claimed their biggest victory yet against IS militants.

They say they have broken the IS siege of Mount Sinjar, where thousands of Yazidis and other…

Militants have stormed a remote village in north-eastern Nigeria, killing at least 33 people and kidnapping about 200, a survivor has told the BBC.

He said that suspected Boko Haram…

World leaders have welcomed a historic move by the US to end more than 50 years of hostility towards Cuba and restore diplomatic relations.

Pope Francis joined leaders from Latin America…

China on Friday criticized a call by the United Nations for North Korea to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague over its human rights record.

Pakistani jets and ground forces killed 77 militants in northwestern Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, days after Taliban fighters killed 148 people - most of…

The United States and Cuba will start talks on normalizing full diplomatic relations, marking the most significant shift in US policy toward the communist island in decades, American officials…

European environment ministers opposed plans on Wednesday from the EU executive to scrap draft laws on waste and air quality, saying they sent a "negative signal" about Europe's ambition to curb…

Japan's trade deficit in November shrank by nearly a third from a year ago, helped by higher exports and falling oil bills, although the volume of shipments to foreign markets remained weak,…