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Nicolas Maduro has been declared the winner of Sunday's presidential election, which saw a 46.1% turnout, according to Venezuela's electoral council, after the opposition called for a boycott.…

US President Donald Trump said he will “demand” that the Justice Department open an investigation into whether the FBI infiltrated his presidential campaign, an extraordinary order that came…

An Ebola vaccination campaign was to begin on Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some 4,000 doses of the vaccine were shipped to Mbandaka over the weekend after it was announced that…

Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia leader whose bloc beat expectations to come out on top in Iraq’s parliamentary vote, has held separate meetings with rival political leaders, ushering in what could be…

A volcano that is oozing, spewing and exploding on Hawaii’s Big Island has become more hazardous, with rivers of molten rock flowing into the ocean and flying lava causing the first major injury…

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met with Muqtada al-Sadr on Saturday, less than 24 hours after the Shia cleric’s bloc was declared winner of Iraq’s parliamentary election, the clearest sign…

Three months before the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump Jr. met with a small group of people at Trump Tower in New York, including an emissary for two Arab princes and an Israeli social…

Cuban officials say they have found one of the two black boxes from a plane that crashed near Havana airport, killing more than 100 people. The Cuban Transport Minister Adel Yzquierdo says he…

US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday discussed North Korea’s recent threats to cancel its unprecedented summit with Washington, Seoul’s presidential office…

Defying foreign governments’ pressure, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was seeking a six-year term on Sunday in a vote.

Venezuelans, reeling under a devastating economic crisis, went…

The leader of a Burundian opposition coalition said Saturday they would not accept the outcome of a referendum on extending the president’s time in office, calling the vote undemocratic and…

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said development is the “only solution” to Indian-administered Kashmir’s problems, as separatist leaders called for a strike to protest against his day-…

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Sunday she would again consider another vote on independence for Scotland when the British government offers some certainty over Brexit.

Sanctions imposed by the US President Donald Trump administration that could hurt companies in Germany and Russia were among the issues discussed by President Vladimir Putin and Chancellor…

Ten people were killed and 10 wounded in a shooting Friday morning at a high school south of Houston, authorities said. The shooting at Santa Fe High School was the nation’s deadliest such…

The final results of Iraq's elections confirmed Saturday a breakthrough for nationalist cleric Muqtada Sadr, who was in the lead, ahead of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. But the possibilities…

At least eight people were killed in a series of bomb explosions at a cricket match in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar Province, a provincial official said.  The attack took place as…

More than 100 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed soon after taking off from Havana in what appeared to be Cuba’s worst air disaster in nearly 30 years, and there were only three…

The Chinese air force has for the first time landed several bombers on a South China Sea island. The move could fuel tension in the region amid concern that Beijing is expanding its military…

President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Admiral Harry Harris as US ambassador to South Korea on Friday, filling a key diplomatic post ahead of his high-stakes June 12 meeting…

International rights groups have condemned the arrests this week of seven prominent Saudi Arabian women’s rights activists who previously campaigned for the right to drive, which the kingdom is…

Italy’s two anti-establishment parties agreed the basis for a governing accord on Thursday that would slash taxes, ramp up welfare spending and pose the biggest challenge to the European Union…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a meeting with the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Sochi, the acting presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. The two leaders conducted “extensive”…

US President Donald Trump sought on Thursday to placate North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un after Pyongyang threatened to scrap an unprecedented summit, saying Kim’s security would be guaranteed in…

A powerful but short-lived explosion occurred at the summit of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island, producing a massive volcanic cloud. The cloud reached 30,000 feet above sea level—…