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The United Nations Committee Against Torture criticized the United States in a report Friday for a pattern of police brutality and excessive force against racial and ethnic minorities across the…

Pope Francis said on Friday fighting hunger and poverty, rather than military intervention alone, were key to stopping extremist militants carrying out “barbaric violence” in Syria and …

Thousands of angry protesters hit the streets of Haiti on Friday to demand the resignation of President Michel Martelly, in the latest public outcry over long-delayed elections in the troubled…

More than 480,000 residents of Ukraine have arrived in Russia since early April 2014 and over 240,000 applied for temporary asylum or refugee status, according to State Secretary - First Deputy…

A spate of mystery drones flying over French nuclear plants has led the country to launch a program aimed at developing ways of detecting and intercepting them, officials said Thursday.

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The Taliban bombed a British embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital Kabul on Thursday morning, killing five people, and attacked a foreign compound in the city center in the evening, officials and…

A roadside bomb tore through a bus station near a busy junction in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, killing 40 people including five soldiers, witnesses and a security source on the scene said.

Namibians went to the polls on Friday to choose a new president and parliament - in what is Africa’s first electronic ballot.

The ruling South West Africa People’s Organization (Swapo) is…

US interference in the internal affairs of countries around the world has brought neither peace, nor democracy, said Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister. America’s double standard experiments in…

A United Nations agency declared a state of “emergency” in Gaza City on Thursday, after two days of heavy rains and flooding in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave

“Hundreds of residents in…

Amnesty International condemned Thursday Egypt’s demolition of hundreds of homes and called for a halt to its “unlawful evictions” of residents to create a buffer zone with the Gaza Strip.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the Muslim world can solve its problems only by itself and not with the help of foreigners, claiming that they only like the gold, oil and diamonds…

The first human trial of an experimental vaccine against Ebola showed “promising” results but it will be months before it can be used in the field. Twenty volunteers were immunized in the United…

Tongans dumped half their members of parliament in a general election this week as the tiny Pacific island kingdom faces up to a grim economic outlook. Official results released by the Tongan…

Afghanistan’s new President Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday he would not allow anyone to conduct a proxy war in his country after warnings that the rivalry between India and Pakistan could spill…

The US-led coalition against the IS in Syria has killed 865 people since the start of the airstrikes in late Septem ber, at least 50 of them civilians, a new report from the UN chief reveals.

One of the most troubling aspects of the phenomenon of militant Salafist-takfiri groups like IS is the appearance of smaller groups across the Arab world that share IS’ ideology and methods, and…

Protest marches have sprung up in cities across the United States, as a huge security operation is trying to stifle clashes in Ferguson, the town at the center of the country’s latest racially-…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday slammed US “impertinence” on the Syrian conflict, exposing the extent of strains between Washington and Ankara days after his key meeting with…

Gunmen killed three Pakistani women polio workers and their driver on Wednesday, police said, in the most deadly attack on the health workers in two years. Teams in Pakistan working to immunize…

The French government said that six Mirage fighter jets would be deployed to Jordan on Thursday to assist in the fight against the IS group. Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told a weekly…

Pope Francis has warned that the world sees Europe as "somewhat elderly and haggard" during a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The Pope said the continent felt "less and less a…

Indian Kashmir headed to the polls Tuesday under tight security, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party eyeing power for the first time in the tense and disputed Muslim-…

Turkey and the United States smoothed over some differences in the fight against the IS during a weekend visit by US Vice President Joe Biden, but the talks heralded little in the way of…

The UK government approved £7 million worth of military licenses to Israel during the six months leading up to the recent assault on Gaza, according to campaigners.