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Thousands of protesters forced the temporary closure of the Hong Kong government's headquarters on Monday after they clashed with police outside, defying orders to retreat.

When El Salvador emerged from more than a decade of civil war in the 1990s, the United States helped set up a training program for the country’s new National Civilian Police as part of…

Pope Francis has urged Muslim leaders around the world to condemn terrorism carried out in the name of Islam.

Speaking on board a flight back to Rome, the Pope said that he understood the…

A peacekeeping force in Darfur has become a security burden and should leave, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday, escalating a row that has already led to the closure a joint…

A delegation of five European officials led by French former justice minister Rachida Dati will visit the US military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba this week, aides said Sunday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday held talks in Ankara with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to tighten links which have survived potentially grave disputes over the Syria and…

The number of people displaced by conflict in Iraq has grown to 2.1 million, aid organizations warned Sunday as snow began falling on the Kurdish north hosting nearly half of them.

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The head of the UN Ebola response mission in West Africa has told the BBC there is still a “huge risk” the deadly disease could spread to other parts of the world. More than 6,000 people have now…

 Tabare Vazquez won back his old job as president of Uruguay in a runoff election on Sunday, extending the decade-long rule of a leftist coalition and allowing it to roll out a law that…

Fifteen people were killed when a group threw explosives into a crowded street where vendors were selling food in China's restive region of Xinjiang, the official Xinhua news agency said on…

Egyptian police have used tear gas to disperse protesters angry that charges against ex-President Hosni Mubarak over killings during the uprising three years ago have been dropped.

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About 400 people have been killed in six weeks of heavy fighting between Libyan pro-government forces and militia groups in Libya’s second-largest city Benghazi, medical staff said on Saturday.

Turkey’s main Kurdish party accused the government of turning a blind eye to IS militants on its soil on Saturday after suicide bombers attacked the town of Kobane along its southern border with…

Moldova went to the polls on Sunday in a crucial parliamentary election that hinges on whether the impoverished ex-Soviet country will pursue integration with Europe or return to Russia’s fold.…

On the last day of his visit to Turkey, Pope Francis held a joint service in Istanbul together with Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world’s 250 million Orthodox…

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s surprise resignation has largely been ascribed to his lack of assertiveness on key issues and a frosty relationship with President Obama, but it must be seen…

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected head of the opposition UMP, in what is being seen as the start of a new bid for the presidency.

Sarkozy gained 64.5% of the vote,…

Greenland’s ruling Siumut Party narrowly won a snap election, results showed on Saturday, but its new leader Kim Kielsen will need to build a coalition to form a government to deal with a…

US police officer Darren Wilson - who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in the Missouri town of Ferguson on 9 August- has resigned from the force, his lawyer Neil Bruntrager says.…

An Egyptian court dismissed Saturday a murder charge against former president Hosni Mubarak over the deaths of protesters during a 2011 uprising, after a dramatic retrial in which he defended his…

Libya's self-proclaimed prime minister has warned that attempts by a rival government in the east to assert control over the oil industry could escalate the political conflict dividing the OPEC…

Gunmen set off three bombs and opened fire on worshippers at the main mosque in north Nigeria’s biggest city Kano on Friday, killing scores of people witnesses and officials said, in an attack…

Russia on Friday successfully tested its new submarine-launched Bulava intercontinental missile, designed to carry nuclear warheads, the defense ministry said in a statement.

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Two months of US-led airstrikes have failed to weaken IS militants, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem has said.

Moualem told Lebanese TV the only way to tackle IS was to force Turkey…

Taliban militants have launched an offensive against Afghan forces at Camp Bastion, the huge base in southern Helmand province vacated by the British military a month ago, officials said.