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State Duma chairman, Sergey Naryshkin, has reiterated his advice to European countries to rule themselves and stop heeding meddlesome US advice that does more harm than good.

Any congressional authorization of US military force against IS should be flexible and not limit the fight to Iraq and Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday.

The CIA misled the White House and public about its torture of detainees after the Sept. 11 attacks and acted more brutally and pervasively than it acknowledged, a US Senate report said on Tuesday…

A Palestinian minister died shortly after being hit by Israeli soldiers during a protest on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, a Reuters photographer who witnessed the incident and a Palestinian…

Ebola is still “running ahead” of efforts to contain it, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO says the situation has improved in some parts of the worst-affected countries in West…

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov arrived in Syria Wednesday for a meeting with President Bashar al-Assad, as Moscow presses its bid to restart a peace process for the war-torn…

British Prime Minister David Cameron was scheduled to visit Turkey on Tuesday amid strained relations between Turkey and the UK due to allegations that Turkey handed over two of its citizens to IS…

The opening of a large UK naval base in Bahrain is a reward to London for not speaking out against the royal family’s abuses against dissenters, human rights activist Nabeel Rajab told RT.…

A ‘Day of Silence’ began in southeastern Ukraine on Tuesday. A spokesman for the monitoring mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and officials of the Joint…

Israeli lawmakers unanimously voted Monday to dissolve parliament, officially ending the legislature’s term two years ahead of schedule and kicking off an election campaign ahead of a March 17…

Security was stepped up at US facilities around the world ahead of the release of a report expected to reveal details of harsh CIA interrogations, the White House says.

Embassies and other…

Divisions among the veto-wielding powers of the UN Security Council are harming the world’s children and sowing the seeds of future conflicts, the head of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on…

Syrian officials demanded the UN impose sanctions on Israel after Tel Aviv conducted airstrikes near Damascus Airport. They say the attack was a “heinous crime” against their sovereignty by a…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would have to “adequately” respond to the development of US anti-missile system in Europe.

Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel on Sunday told US troops in Afghanistan their mission was not over as they shift to a scaled-back role training their Afghan counterparts.

More than 30 humanitarian organizations launched an appeal on Monday for countries to take in around 180,000 refugees from the Syrian conflict.

That figure would represent five percent of…

An opposition party worker was shot dead in Pakistan on Monday, officials said, as hundreds of activists clashed with riot police armed with water cannon in the central city of Faisalabad.

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The US and Britain took part Monday for the first time in a conference of some 800 delegates from more than 150 countries exploring the risks posed by the world’s 16,000 nuclear warheads.

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Mexico said on Sunday that mounting evidence and initial DNA tests confirmed that 43 trainee teachers abducted by corrupt police 10 weeks ago were incinerated at a garbage dump by drug gang…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told voters Monday not to be intimidated against casting ballots in Indian Kashmir’s state elections after a string of attacks, as he hit the campaign trail in…

Despite three failed raids to free US hostages held by militants, the United States will continue to conduct such operations, officials indicated on Sunday, as President Barack Obama …

Syria’s army accused Israel of carrying out air strikes Sunday against two government-held areas in Damascus province, one of them near the capital’s international airport.

Hong Kong protesters were thin on the ground on Monday ahead of a possible mid-week clearance of the main camp site straddling downtown arteries, testing the patience of residents and commuters…

Moncef Marzouki and Beji Caid Essebsi will face off on December 21 in Tunisia’s second round of presidential voting to decide who leads the nation that sparked the Arab Spring. “Voting will take…

A Russian deputy foreign minister accused the United States on Monday of trying to bring down President Vladimir Putin by imposing sanctions on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine. “It is hardly a…