International

Former chief of Bangladesh’s pro-Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami party, Ghulam Azam has died of a heart attack at the age of 91 in a prison cell at a government hospital in Dhaka. A special tribunal last…

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff looks positioned to narrowly win a second term on Sunday’s run-off thanks to a slight rebound in the economy and her success in portraying her rival as an elitist…

Coalition air strikes killed around 25 Islamic State fighters on Wednesday near the northern Iraqi city of Baiji, residents told Reuters.

They said a series of bombings beginning in the…

Freedoms of the press and of expression in the Americas have seen a “marked deterioration” in the past six months, a leading advocacy group has said.

The Inter American Press Association (…

At least one bundle of US weapons airdropped in Syria appears to have fallen into the hands of IS, a dangerous misfire in the American mission to speed aid to Kurdish forces making their…

North Korea has freed Jeffrey Fowle, one of three Americans detained by the country, and he is being flown home to his family, Washington said on Tuesday.

White House spokesman Josh…

Russia will have military control of the entirety of its 6,200 km Arctic coastal zone by the end of 2014, just a year after Moscow announced its ambitious plan to build military presence in the…

Incumbent President Dilma Rousseff pulled ahead again in a new poll ahead of Brazil’s presidential election and she appears to be the favorite to win Sunday’s runoff although the vote is still too…

A Saudi court has sentenced 13 people, including an Afghan and a Qatari, to between 18 months and 30 years in prison for plotting an Al-Qaeda attack against US forces.

The defendants were…

The European Parliament on Wednesday approved the new European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker, Reuters said. The vote clears the way for the EU executive to take office on November 1.…

Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Wednesday the country’s anti-graft agency did not approve eight of his cabinet choices. Widodo, who took office on Monday, told a news conference he would…

Mexico’s government announced a $110,000 reward for information on the disappearance of 43 students in a case of alleged collusion between a drug gang and police.

The reward was announced…

The panel chosen to pick candidates for Hong Kong’s 2017 election could be made “more democratic”, the territory’s leader said on Tuesday, the first indication of a possible concession to…

Britain’s defense ministry says Royal Air Force drones will fly intelligence-gathering missions over Syria, in a broadening of UK operations against the IS group beyond Iraq.

Defense…

Israeli settlers moved into 10 new homes in the occupied east Beit ul-Muqaddas (Jerusalem) on Monday, activists said, in spite of fierce local opposition and international condemnation of such…

Russia and Indonesia are considering the possibility of expanding military and technical cooperation, including supplies of Russian submarines, Russian Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov…

The forces of the Kiev government used cluster munitions in populated areas in the city of Donetsk, eastern Ukraine, says Human Rights Watch. It adds that the use of this forbidden weaponry…

As the new academic term began in Egypt, riot police were standing guard at Cairo’s universities to quash any repeat of protests that turned campuses nationwide into battlefields.

At least four Afghan soldiers were killed, and around a dozen people including six civilians wounded after a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban exploded in the Afghan capital on Tuesday,…

Sweden’s Armed Forces will keep the airspace above parts of Stockholm’s archipelago closed as the country continues its search for what local media are reporting could be a damaged Russian…

Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of French oil company Total, has died in an air crash in Moscow. His corporate jet collided with a snow plough and then was engulfed in flames. All four…

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday he risked upsetting allies and losing international clout if he pursued an anti-immigration…

European foreign ministers gathered in Luxembourg Monday to try and formulate a coordinated EU response to the spread of the Ebola virus amid warnings the crisis has reached a “tipping point”.…

Japan’s Justice Minister Midori Matsushima has resigned, hours after the resignation of Trade and Industry Minister Yuko Obuchi.

Matsushima had been accused by the opposition of violating…

Hong Kong’s leader says “external forces” are participating in protests that have occupied parts of this financial capital for more than three weeks.