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About 100,000 Hungarians rallied on Tuesday night to protest at a planned tax on data traffic and the broader course of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government they saw as undermining democracy…

Zambian President Michael Sata has died at the age of 77 after receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness. He was being treated in the UK and died in London. It is not immediately clear who…

The foreign ministry has responded to the latest remarks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticizing Tehran’s policy on Syria.

An unnamed official at the foreign ministry said, “…

The foreign ministry spokesperson on Tuesday congratulated the Tunisian nation on holding a "successful" parliamentary election, saying Iran has always supported the "stability, territorial…

Suicide bombers, roadside bombs and rocket attacks on the Afghan capital have intensified in the one month since President Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai took office as the Taliban are sending a message…

Fighting in central Yemen between Houthi fighters and a tribe in the town of Radda has killed at least 250 people in the last three days, security officials said Monday.

Mexican authorities have made four new arrests in the search for missing students.

Four members of the drug cartel Guerreros Unidos were detained for their alleged involvement in the…

More than 50 people have been arrested – including prominent local political figures in Spain’s mainstream parties – in what is being dubbed the country’s biggest ever crackdown on corruption…

Turkish police launched a new wave of operation targeting senior colleagues over claims of illegal wiretapping in the southern province of Mersin, and detained twenty of them on Tuesday.

Japanese and North Korean officials held talks in Pyongyang for the first time in 10 years Tuesday, meeting to assess progress into North Korea’s investigation into the fates of Japanese citizens…

As Britain’s last remaining troops depart from Afghanistan, a poll indicates 68 percent of Britons think the UK’s military campaign there was not “worthwhile.” A further 42 percent of those…

Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has rejected claims that it is not doing enough to help Syrian fighters defeat the IS group in Kobane.

He told the BBC it would only take part in…

According to Israeli sources, Tel Aviv is preparing to construct over 1,000 housing units in east Jerusalem.

The land is in the West Bank, and Palestinians have said such moves compromise…

A fleet of planes and helicopters airlifted the last U.S. and British forces from a key base in southern Afghanistan on Monday, a day after the international coalition closed the massive facility…

At least 27 Shiite militiamen have been killed in a bomb blast on the outskirts of the Iraqi town of Jurf al-Sakhar on Monday after security forces pushed Islamic State militants out of the area…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said there is a “plot within a plot” when it comes to the embattled Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane that was probably designed by a mind greater than the…

Japan began exercises Monday with the US Army in Hokkaido, a day after it started naval maneuvers with Russia 800 km away off the coast of Vladivostok.

Heavy fighting flared on Sunday between Libya’s army and militias apparently trying retake one of their largest camps in the eastern city of Benghazi, military officials said.

Leftist ruling coalition candidate Tabare Vazquez led Uruguay’s presidential election on Sunday but he fell short of a first-round victory and will go to a runoff vote next month.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s party was in the lead with over 22 percent of votes in the country’s Sunday parliamentary elections, exit polls said on Monday. Poroshenko’s bloc was closely…

An academic took over as interim governor Sunday of a crime-riddled Mexican state thrust into the global spotlight by the disappearance of 43 students a month ago.

The Israeli government is advancing construction plans to build about 1,000 settlement units built in parts of Beit ul-Muqaddas (Jerusalem), the AP reported.Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid…

The new Afghan president is scheduled to travels to China on Tuesday, signaling the pivotal role he hopes Beijing will play in Afghanistan’s future, not only in the economic reconstruction of the…

Dilma Rousseff has been re-elected president of Brazil, after securing more than 51% of votes in the closest election race in many years.

An official count showed her rival, centrist…

Iraqi government forces and Shia militias seized control of the strategic town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from IS on Saturday and Kurdish fighters made gains in the north after heavy coalition…