International

North Korea has denied hacking into the computer system at Sony Pictures in retaliation for a film depicting the country's leader - but has praised the attack itself as a "righteous deed."

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accused Russia of interfering in the affairs of Eastern European countries seeking closer ties with the EU.

In an interview in Die Welt am Sonntag…

Thousands of demonstrators marched Saturday through downtown Sao Paulo against government corruption and the recent re-election of President Dilma Rousseff, the AFP reported.

The march,…

At least one of 43 Mexican students who went missing in Guerrero state has been identified from charred remains, an official has said.

A family member of one of the students, Alexander Mora…

The US government says it has released six Guantanamo Bay detainees and sent them to Uruguay for resettlement.

A Pentagon statement on Sunday identified the men as four Syrians, a Tunisian…

Protests of a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man continued around the country, and authorities said a march in California…

Syria’s government and opposition will hold talks in Moscow on the resolution of the Syrian crisis, advisor to the Syrian president Bouthaina Shaaban told RT Arabic.

Syria and Russia agreed…

An 18-year-old Kurdish protester was killed Saturday in unclear circumstances during clashes with police in the majority Kurd region of southeast Turkey.

The victim was killed by a bullet…

Five civilians have been killed in fresh violence in eastern Ukraine, where more explosions and gunfire rang out on Sunday, two days before the start of a planned truce.

Three civilians…

A suspected US drone strike in Afghanistan killed nine alleged Pakistani Taliban fighters in a rural village near the mountainous border between the two countries, a local official said Sunday.

An overnight attack by suspected Ugandan rebels in the area of Beni in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has left 14 people dead, authorities said Sunday. More than 200 people have been…

IS militants stormed parts of a sprawling army air base Saturday in eastern Syria after days of clashes that killed dozens on both sides, the AP reported.

The sprawling base, outside the…

UN human rights experts have expressed “legitimate concerns” about US juries failing to charge policemen involved in the deaths of two black civilians.

It is part of a broader “pattern of…

Mexico City’s police chief, Jesus Rodriguez Almeida, has resigned after strong criticism of his handling of protests in the city.

A largely peaceful march on 20 November over the…

Uruguay’s President Jose Mujica has confirmed his country will resettle six Guantanamo Bay prisoners on humanitarian grounds.

President Mujica was himself held for over a decade in terrible…

President Barack Obama on Friday nominated veteran defense expert Ashton Carter as his defense secretary, a job that will require him to tackle messy wars in the Middle East and…

Chinese authorities have arrested former domestic security chief Zhou Yongkang and expelled him from the ruling Communist Party, accusing him of crimes ranging from accepting bribes to leaking…

Thousands of anti-government protesters have clashed with police in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince.

They burned tires and threw stones at officers who responded with tear gas.

The…

A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman on Friday denied any changes in China’s policy toward Hong Kong, while reiterating its opposition to foreign interference in Hong Kong affairs.

“We…

The UK is to establish its first permanent military base in the Middle East since it formally withdrew from the region in 1971.

A deal signed in Bahrain this weekend will see the Royal Navy…

US journalist Luke Somers was killed during a rescue operation in Shabwa in southern Yemen on Saturday, a senior official in the president’s office told Reuters. He said the government initially…

The Pakistani military said on Saturday they killed a top al-Qaeda operative wanted in the United States for planning to bomb the New York subway system. The Federal Bureau of Investigation…

NASA's new Orion spacecraft lifted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral and rocketed to orbit Friday morning; the first test flight for a program that NASA hopes eventually will get astronauts to…

Protests were held for a second night across US on Thursday over the death of a black man held in an apparent chokehold by a white New York police officer. Thousands of people took to the streets…

Reported sexual assaults in the US military rose by 8% this year to 5,983, with nearly two-thirds of those who reported saying they faced retaliation.

The figures come from an anonymous…