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Kurdish militants killed three Turkish soldiers in Turkey’s southeast on Saturday, the Turkish Armed Forces said, in a further blow to peace talks between Ankara and the insurgents.

More than 10,000 people have been infected with Ebola and nearly half of them have died, according to figures released Saturday by the World Health Organization, as the outbreak continues to…

India has chosen to buy anti-tank guided missiles from Israel, rejecting a rival US offer, as the right-wing government clears projects worth $13.1 billion to modernize its ageing military,…

It appears to be election season across the world. There are snap elections in Ukraine where people vote for a new parliament amid the ongoing crisis in the separatist east.

Organizers of Hong Kong’s democracy protests cancelled a Sunday vote on the next step in their month-long street occupation.They say they have not properly consulted the public before calling the…

 Iraqi premier Haidar al-Abadi was to visit Jordan Sunday for talks on combating militants from the IS group, continuing a diplomatic push after a trip to Iran. Jordan, which borders Iraq’s…

Eight French voters out of 10 would not support French President Francois Hollande's candidacy to seek a second mandate in 2017, a survey showed on Saturday, Xinhua reported.

People protested in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday to oppose death sentences against a Shia religious leader and seven others convicted after earlier demonstrations.

Following Friday…

Ukraine voters go to the polls today in parliamentary elections called by President Petro Poroshenko in August, the AFP reported.

While Poroshenko may succeed in creating a pro-Western…

A growing sense of desperation is fueling a mass exodus of Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar, with at least 8,000 members of the long-persecuted minority fleeing by boat in the last two weeks…

Egypt has declared a three-month state of emergency in parts of the Sinai Peninsula after at least 31 soldiers were killed in two attacks there.

President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has declared…

As Tunisia votes in key parliamentary and presidential elections, former members of the Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali regime look to make a political comeback, the AFP reported.

A student fatally shot one classmate and wounded four others when he opened fire in the cafeteria of his Washington state high school on Friday, following a fight with fellow students, authorities…

Lebanese troops attacked armed militants holed up in the historic market of the northern city of Tripoli Saturday, after deadly clashes rocked the longtime tourist attraction. A gunman was killed…

A doctor who recently returned from Guinea has tested positive for Ebola -- the first case of the deadly virus in New York City and the fourth diagnosed in the United States, CNN reported.

France's Rafale fighter jets have struck a training center of the Islamic State (IS) militant group overnight in Iraqi city of Kirkuk, French army's chief staff Peter de Villiers said on Friday,…

China launched an experimental spacecraft early Friday that is scheduled to orbit the moon before returning to Earth, a first for the country's ambitious space program and considered a precursor…

A deal has been reached for 200 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces to pass through Turkey to help Syrian Kurdish fighters in the besieged town of Kobane, just over the border in Syria, Turkish…

Voters went to the polls in Botswana on Friday in what is expected to be the closest general elections in the world’s largest diamond producer.

President Ian Khama’s Botswana Democratic…

The governor of Mexico’s southern Guerrero state - where 43 students went missing after clashing with police last month - has said he is standing down.

According to the BBC, Angel Aguirre…

The US will maintain control of South Korean troops in the event of war with the North, the two sides say, delaying again a long-planned command transfer.

Both sides attributed the delay to…

The Russian Defense Ministry believes the military operation in the Baltic conducted by Sweden in search of possible “foreign underwater activity” can only lead to undermining stability and…

Protest leaders in Hong Kong are to ballot their supporters over whether to accept the government’s proposals and end their occupation of the city.

The protest leaders had previously…

Eleven Iraqi police officers were taken to hospital after an IS chemical weapons attack, with the defense ministry and doctors recently confirming the gas as chlorine. This marks the first…

Women and children were caught up in a police siege near the Tunisian capital Friday, with “terrorists” killing one officer in a firefight, ahead of Sunday’s parliamentary elections.

The…