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While every other ally of Israel has distanced itself from Israel’s policies after its offensive in Gaza this summer - especially on settlements - India has pledged to strengthen its relations…

US President Barack Obama issued an appeal on Monday for restraint by protesters and police after a Missouri grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death…

Yemeni security forces freed seven Yemeni hostages and one foreigner in a special operation in which seven al Qaeda kidnappers were also killed, the country’s supreme security committee said.

Tunisia’s first presidential election since a 2011 revolution was “pluralist and transparent”, the head of the EU observer mission said on Tuesday as reported by the AFP.”The exercise of freedom…

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's center-left Democratic Party (PD) won regional elections in Calabria and Emilia Romagna on Sunday but an exceptionally low turnout suggested growing…

The United State’s Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will step down from his position, a senior administration official confirmed to CNN Monday.

Hagel, who has served in this position since…

In his third foreign visit after trips to Saudi Arabia and China, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani traveled to Pakistan on November 14 to talk about the peace that Afghanistan desperately needs.…

A ‘temporary’ deployment of US troops in Poland and the Baltic states has been extended through 2015, a US commander in Europe said. NATO sells its presence as a deterrent to an ‘aggressive Russia…

US Vice President Joe Biden has stressed that the US needs Turkey and it seems that Turkey believes it needs the US, despite the major differences on ways and means of dealing with the threat of…

Beijing on Monday fired back at US criticism of an artificial island project in the disputed South China Sea that could reportedly include an airstrip, with a top general defending it as “…

NATO says that two of its service members have been killed in an attack in eastern Afghanistan.

Following protocol, it did not confirm their nationalities. A NATO spokeswoman says the…

Members of al Qaeda’s Nusra Front seized an area south of a village in north Syria on Sunday after clashes with pro-government fighters, opposition activists said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia will sign a strategic partnership agreement on Monday, the Kremlin said. Abkhazia relies on financial and…

These are bleak times. I’ve been in serious conversation with some deep sources and interlocutors – those who know but don’t need to show off, privileging discretion, Pepe Escobar wrote in Asia…

Hundreds of protesters, among them neo-Nazis and angry local residents, protested in the German capital on Saturday against the construction of a centre for refugees seeking political asylum.

North Korea’s top military body warned Sunday of “catastrophic consequences” for supporters of a UN resolution censuring its human rights record, as state media reported its leader presiding over…

IS militants have killed at least 25 members of a Sunni Muslim tribe in a village on the eastern edge of the provincial capital Ramadi, local officials said on Saturday, in apparent revenge for…

Afghanistan’s parliament approved agreements Sunday with the Washington allowing US-led troops to remain in the country past the end of this year.

A house owned by a Palestinian family in Khirbet Abu Falah village near Ramallah was set ablaze early Sunday after Israeli settlers threw a petrol bomb inside it, the house’s owner said.

“A…

Tunisians voted on Sunday in the country’s first presidential election since the 2011 uprising that triggered protests across the region.

More than 25 candidates are in the race, but…

Some 250 Syrian migrants crammed onto a fishing boat were rescued off the northern coast of Cyprus on Sunday as the vessel hit rough seas in the Mediterranean, Turkish media reported.

A strong 6.2 magnitude earthquake in central Japan left 39 people injured, seven seriously, and wrecked homes in a popular ski resort, the government said Sunday. The quake struck at 10:08 pm…

A bomb went off near a train station in southern Egypt Saturday night, as police found three other explosive devices planted on railway tracks in the region, the government said. One person was…

A strong earthquake shook central Japan's Nagano region on Saturday night, injuring several people and collapsing a building in area village, the country's Kyodo news agency reported.

Western sanctions against Russia over its role in Ukraine are aimed at forcing regime change in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says, BBC reported.