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Top US diplomat John Kerry met his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov Sunday, amid anger in Moscow over the prospect of new US sanctions and possible lethal military aid for Ukraine. The meeting in…

Russia intends to actively develop commercial and industrial relations with the Middle East, including the Persian Gulf countries, as well as with South-East Asia and Latin…

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual summit visit to India this year was a brief affair.

A parliamentary committee investigating possible British links to torture will request access to blacked out parts of a US Senate report on CIA treatment of Al-Qaeda suspects, its chairman said…

Haiti’s Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe announced his resignation Sunday after repeated calls for him to step down amid anti-government protests and a political crisis, the AFP reported.

“I…

Thousands of people have marched through the US capital, Washington DC, to protest against the recent killings of unarmed black people by police.

Relatives of Michael Brown, shot dead in…

A leading member of the Palestinian Hamas movement has called for a “genuine partnership” with the Palestinian Fatah group – its longstanding rival – against the Israeli occupation.

China has offered to help Iraq defeat IS militants with support for airstrikes, according to Ibrahim Jafari, Iraq’s foreign minister.

Wang Yi, Jafari’s Chinese counterpart, made the…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won comfortable re-election Sunday in a snap poll he had billed as a referendum on his economic policies after early success faded into a recession.

But a…

Britain will send hundreds of troops to train Iraqi and Kurdish forces in Iraq, Defense Secretary Michael Fallon told The Daily Telegraph newspaper on Saturday, in a bid to step up the battle…

A Taliban bomb killed two American soldiers in a NATO convoy late on Friday night near the US Bagram Airfield base north of Kabul, a US defense official said on Saturday. “Two International…

Tens of thousands of Polish opposition supporters marched in the capital Warsaw on Saturday to denounce alleged irregularities in last month’s local elections. Major computer breakdowns in polling…

Taliban insurgents gunned down a top official of Afghanistan’s Supreme Court as he left his home in Kabul on Saturday, the latest in a spate of strikes by the militants on a broad range of targets…

The IS militants shot down an Iraqi military helicopter, officials said Saturday, killing the two pilots onboard and raising fresh concerns about the extremists’ ability to attack aircraft amid…

Japan's Shinzo Abe will put his prime ministership to the test on Sunday, in a snap parliamentary election that will give him four more years to try to put the economy right and pursue his goal of…

Millions of Shia Muslim pilgrims defied the threat of militant attacks and thronged the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala for the climax of annual Arbaeen mourning rituals on Saturday.

Some had…

China and Japan should set aside hatred and not allow the minority who led Japan to war to affect relations now, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Saturday, as the country marked its first…

Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Friday sternly criticized a bill on Ukraine that passed the US Senate, saying Washington was doing its utmost to “destroy the carcass of cooperation” between the two…

The UN’s human rights chief on Friday said the circumstances of the death of a senior Palestinian official killed by Israeli soldiers this week were “disturbing” and called for a timely and…

Militants in Syria using improvised mortar bombs made of cooking gas canisters killed 311 civilians between July and December this year, a monitoring group said on Friday, condemning the use of…

Nearly 6,600 people have now died from the Ebola virus, almost all of them in west Africa, the World Health Organization said Friday. The UN health agency added that as of December 10, there had…

Thailand’s crown prince has divorced his wife, in a dramatic fall from grace for a senior princess at a time of heightened anxiety over the health of the country’s revered but ailing monarch. A…

More than 60 million hectares of land that belongs to 80% of Africa are quietly being exchanged hands through sales and rentals under the smokescene of political instability and terror crises, the…

From across Iraq and neighboring states, millions of Shia pilgrims are heading this week to the city of Karbala for a religious ceremony that authorities say extremists are targeting for attack.…

Egypt has always been impossible to describe. Now it is also impossible to analyze. The acquittal of former President Hosni Mubarak on November 29 marks a symbolic nail in the coffin of the…