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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he will study a UN proposal for "local ceasefires" in the war-ravaged northern city of Aleppo, BBC reported.

The UN's Syria mediator Staffan de…

Billed as a new chapter in the history of the Balkans, the first visit on Monday by an Albanian leader to Serbia in 68 years descended into a televised row between prime ministers over the…

A vote on independence for Catalonia has shown more than 80% in favor, officials say.

The non-binding vote went ahead after Spain’s constitutional court ruled out holding a formal…

Bombs exploded in three cities in Afghanistan on Monday killing at least 10 policemen, officials said, a day after a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself in Kabul’s police headquarters…

Opposition parties, civil society groups and religious leaders adopted a plan on Sunday for a transitional authority to guide Burkina Faso to elections, after a popular uprising forced long-time…

Two Gaza fishermen were wounded and four missing on Monday after the Israeli navy fired on two boats off the coast, officials from the Hamas-run security services said.

The two wounded…

At least 35 people, most of them students, were killed when a bomb ripped through a school assembly in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Potiskum on Monday, a hospital official said.

Egypt’s most active militant group, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, has sworn allegiance to IS, the al Qaeda offshoot which has seized territory in Syria and Iraq, according to an audio clip…

The commander of Guantanamo Bay military prison has said there is little chance the facility will be closed while he remains in his post – which is until mid-2016.

Col David Heath told…

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held an ice-breaking meeting Monday on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific conference in Beijing, following more than two years of…

South Korean troops fired warning shots Monday after North Korean soldiers came too close to the border, defense officials in Seoul said.

A bomb exploded on Sunday in an eastern Libyan town where a UN special envoy was due to meet Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni, but there were no casualties, officials said. One government…

Thousands of Hungarians demonstrated against alleged corruption at the country’s tax authority and for wider democratic freedoms in Budapest on Sunday in the latest protest to rock the country’s…

US warplanes attacked a convoy near Mosul in Iraq this weekend in an attempt to kill IS leaders, said a spokesman for US Central Command.

What a difference 25 years can make. In 1989, Central and Eastern Europe embarked upon a historic transformation, from authoritarian communism to democratic capitalism. With memories of the old…

Yemen’s Houthi movement, which seized the capital Sanaa in September, on Saturday rejected a new power-sharing government that President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi announced on Friday, thwarting his…

Italy’s president Giorgio Napolitano, who reluctantly agreed to a second term in 2013 at a time of political crisis, may step down in January, five years before the end of his term, political…

A group of protesters set fire to the wooden door of Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto’s ceremonial palace in Mexico City’s historic city centre late on Saturday, denouncing the…

Thousands of people have protested against the government saying it was making it difficult for Romanians abroad to vote, a week before a presidential runoff.

Romanians in Paris, London,…

The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain voted in a poll on independence on Sunday.

The Spanish judiciary has ruled the vote unconstitutional but Catalan leader Artur Mar warned…

Two Americans who had been held prisoner in North Korea, have arrived back in the US, after being freed through secret negotiations. Kenneth Bae, had been held in North Korea since 2012 when he…

The heaviest shelling in recent weeks has shaken the city of Donetsk in Ukraine’s east, heightening worry about the renewal of full-scale conflict despite a cease-fire signed two months ago…

Four men have been arrested in the UK in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth, according to a report from the British tabloid The Sun. The four alleged terrorists, had…

Leaders of two warring sides in South Sudan agreed to another peace deal early Saturday after two days of talks convened in an atmosphere of increasing international pressure.

A former member of the IS militant group has revealed the extent to which the cooperation of the Turkish military and border forces allows the terrorist group, who now control large parts of Iraq…