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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday expressed frustration that the US and its allies were not responding to conditions set for his country to play a greater role in the coalition…

The United States wants to subdue Moscow, but will never succeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday.

“They do not want to humiliate us, they want to subdue us, solve their…

A UN committee on Tuesday voted to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for alleged crimes against humanity. The vote followed a UN Commission of Inquiry report…

Colombia’s FARC rebels justified their capture of General Ruben Dario Alzate and two others as a legitimate act of war on Tuesday and urged the government to rethink its retaliatory suspension of…

President Barack Obama has ordered a comprehensive review of US policy governing efforts to free Americans being held by militant groups overseas, the White House said on Monday.

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Governor of the US state of Missouri Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Monday ahead of a grand jury’s decision on whether to indict a police officer in the killing of unarmed black…

The United Arab Emirates has been accused of an “unprecedented clampdown on dissent,” as more than 100 activists have been jailed since 2011 for calling for political transformation, Amnesty…

Human Rights Watch says in a new report that police in Congo’s capital conducted dozens of extrajudicial killings in a three-month crackdown against organized crime gangs.

The rights group…

Four Israelis were killed and several others wounded in a terror attack on Tuesday morning in a synagogue in the western Beit ul-Muqaddas (Jerusalem) neighborhood of Har Nof. Eight people were…

More than 10,000 people protested Monday in the Hungarian capital, demanding the ouster of the head of the tax authority and greater accountability from Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government.…

About a dozen people have reportedly been injured in clashes with riot police outside the US embassy in Athens following mass protests marking the 1973 revolt against the US-backed military junta…

The number of deaths from terrorism increased by 61% between 2012 and 2013, a study into international terrorism says.

There were nearly 10,000 terrorist attacks in 2013, a 44% increase…

Iraqi security forces entered the country’s largest refinery for the first time on Tuesday after months of battling IS militants who had surrounded it, a police colonel and state television said…

Spain’s state prosecutor will sue Catalan leader Artur Mas for defying a court ruling and holding a symbolic vote on the region’s independence from the rest of the country. If successful, the…

Four people, including 2 Afghan security guards, were killed after an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into a foreign-run compound in the eastern outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul. The area…

Israel will never stop its settlement constructions in occupied East Beit ul-Muqaddas (Jerusalem), according to Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

More than two-thirds of Hong Kong people think protesters who have occupied key parts of the city for seven weeks should end their street protests, a Chinese University of Hong Kong survey…

Political and military leaders in Burkina Faso have chosen a former foreign minister, Michel Kafando, to be the country’s interim president.

The move follows the signing of a charter on…

The Pakistani army has killed 1,200 suspected militants in an anti-Taliban offensive during the past five months, seriously reducing the group’s ability to carry out attacks, senior officers said…

Provincial mayor Klaus Iohannis defied expectations to win Romania’s presidential election on Sunday, inflicting a shock defeat on Prime Minister Victor Ponta that was cheered by thousands of anti…

As Kiev continues to amass its forces in eastern Ukraine despite the ceasefire and use radical nationalist groups as armed battalions, Moscow is concerned about possible ethnic cleansing there,…

US President Barack Obama has condemned the killing of US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig as “an act of pure evil”.

The IS militant group released a video showing a masked man standing over…

The European Commission was to discuss emergency protective measures after a highly contagious strain of bird flu was discovered at a poultry farm in the Netherlands. The commission was to hold an…

Colombia has suspended peace talks with the Farc rebel group after the apparent kidnapping of an army general.

Brig Gen Ruben Dario Alzate Mora was abducted by rebels in the northern…

Work has begun to remove wreckage from the MH17 crash site in rebel-held eastern Ukraine after months of delays, Dutch officials said, BBC reported.

The Malaysian Airlines plane, which was…