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Suspected miltants from Somalia hijacked a bus in Kenya’s north and killed 28 people on board, police officials said Saturday.

The bus traveling to the capital Nairobi with 60 passengers…

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was heckled by protesters as he tried to pay tribute to the victims of the last year’s Euromaidan riots in Kiev, which saw around 100 dead and led to a regime…

Bahrain is holding its first parliamentary elections since anti-government protests broke out in 2011 as opposition groups stage a boycott, saying the vote is an attempt to establish “absolute…

Police in Togo’s capital Lome on Friday fired teargas at protesters defying a government ban on marching to the country’s parliament, an AFP reporter said.

The police resorted to the gas to…

Ecuador Friday guaranteed political asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for “as long as necessary,” one day after he lost an appeal against a Swedish warrant for his arrest.

Assange…

US Vice-President Joe Biden is in Turkey to meet President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, aiming to push for a bigger Turkish role in the fight against he IS militant group.

Turkey has said such a…

The United Nations adopted a resolution Friday urging Myanmar to grant citizenship to its Rohingya Muslim minority, ramping up pressure on Yangon to scrap a controversial identity plan.

Barack Obama has extended the combat role for US troops in Afghanistan for another year, in a classified order he signed in recent weeks, the New York Times reported Friday.

Previously, the…

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates has been detained by police as part of an investigation into corruption, money-laundering and tax fraud, Portugal’s Attorney-General’s office said…

An outbreak of plague in Madagascar has killed 40 people and infected almost 80 others, the World Health Organization has said. The WHO warned of the danger of a “rapid spread” of the disease…

Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives lost a second parliamentary seat to the anti-EU UKIP party in Britain on Friday, an embarrassing defeat that foreshadows a possible political upheaval…

Pledging to fix America’s “broken” immigration system, President Barack Obama offered five million undocumented migrants protection from deportation Thursday, allowing families to emerge from the…

Egypt on Thursday arrested a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader who was a key negotiator between the government and the now blacklisted group, security officials said.

Mohamed Ali Bishr was…

Relatives of 43 missing Mexican students, who the authorities say were murdered by a drugs gang, have led mass protests in the capital.

The marches were largely peaceful but some protesters…

Thailand’s martial law will not be lifted for the foreseeable future, the justice minister said on Friday, despite an earlier pledge to lift the law in some provinces to help the tourism industry…

Bahraini rulers are open to dialogue with the opposition despite its boycott of elections this weekend, a cabinet minister said Friday.

“The door to dialogue will never be shut, including…

A horrified France was grappling with a new reality on Thursday in which hundreds of its citizens are openly joining extremist groups and directly calling for attacks on their homeland.

A…

The United States has transferred five Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Europe as part of efforts to empty and close the controversial US military detention center in Cuba, officials said Thursday.…

Mongolia’s parliament Friday chose a new prime minister to head its fractured government, an official website said, as the sprawling, resource-rich nation struggles with stalling economic growth,…

A US drone strike killed six suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan, security officials said on Friday.

Two missiles struck a house in Mada Khel village of the North Waziristan tribal…

Spanish lawmakers have overwhelmingly adopted a motion calling on the government to recognize a Palestinian state, following similar moves in other European nations.

The vote on Tuesday…

Syria’s once-promising economy has been set back more than 30 years by its brutal fighting, economists say, and it may never recover.

Squeezed by sanctions and the fallout of the more than…

Grappling with outrage over violence and impunity after the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on Tuesday accused unspecified groups of seeking to…

The Solomon Islands went to the polls on Wednesday in the first election since an Australian-led peacekeeping intervention ended in 2013, with officials hoping biometric voter registration will…

Making public the Senate’s comprehensive review of the CIA’s controversial post-9/11 interrogation and rendition program could endanger the lives of Americans working overseas, warned former CIA…