International

Swedish authorities reportedly searching for a Russian submarine in its waters are probably looking in the wrong direction. The sub is probably Dutch, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told…

India’s BJP is set to form governments in Maharashtra and Haryana, after the party won the elections in both states.

Last week’s elections were PM Narendra Modi’s first major test of…

Lebanon has all but sealed its borders to refugees fleeing the conflict in Syria, overwhelmed by an influx of over one million people who have fled the fighting, officials said Saturday.

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The US military has airdropped weapons, ammunition and medical supplies to Kurdish fighters in the Syrian city of Kobane to beef up the defense against IS forces, the Pentagon said.

Nine people were killed Sunday in new violence in Benghazi where pro-government forces have launched an offensive against militias, raising the toll to 75 dead in five days, medics said on Monday…

Joko Widodo, the winner of Indonesia’s presidential election in July, has been sworn in as the leader of the South East Asian nation.The 53-year-old took the oath of office at a ceremony held at…

About 110,000 people gathered in the center of Barcelona to call for snap regional elections after Catalonia was forced to cancel its November 9 independence referendum under pressure from Madrid…

A pristine comet is heading towards Mars, approaching closer than one third of the distance from the Earth to the Moon. Astronomers are preparing for an exciting astronomical event that occurs…

Pope Francis closed an assembly of Catholic bishops Sunday, saying that the Church should not be afraid of change and new challenges, Reuters reported.

Francis, who has said he wants a more…

Afghanistan and Turkey signed a strategic cooperation agreement during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Kabul on Saturday.

The agreement signed by the leaders of the two…

The Hong Kong government said on Saturday that it would hold talks with student protest leaders on Tuesday, the start of a formal dialogue that could ease tensions over nearly three weeks of…

Joko Widodo will cap a remarkable rise from an upbringing in a riverside slum when he is sworn in as Indonesia’s president Monday, but takes power amid doubts about his ability to enact much-…

Syrian activists have warned that the IS militant group is test-flying captured fighter jets with the help of former Iraqi air force pilots.

The group has been flying the planes…

Fidel Castro has expressed Cuba’s readiness to cooperate with the US in the global fight against Ebola. Cuba has been on the frontline of international response to the worst outbreak in the…

The Iraqi parliament on Saturday approved a Sunni Muslim to become defense minister and a Shia to be interior minister, state television said, as part of a more inclusive government to help tackle…

The son of slain former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto launched his formal political debut in a massive rally Saturday, vowing to resist extremism and stop the IS group from gaining a foothold in…

Indian and Pakistani troops traded cross-border fire Sunday, the latest in a series of clashes that began earlier this month and have claimed at least 20 civilian lives .No one was injured in the…

Tens of thousands of people have protested in London, Glasgow and Belfast about pay and austerity, BBC said in a report.

Many of those protesting were public sector workers such as teachers…

Protesters in Hong Kong clashed violently with police Saturday as they reoccupied a protest camp mostly cleared the previous day, leading to multiple arrests and jeopardizing government talks…

Nigeria has reached a ceasefire agreement with the Boko Haram group and the deal includes the release of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls, Nigerian officials said Friday.

The deal came…

Suspected Ugandan rebels killed more than 20 people overnight in their second attack near the eastern Congolese town of Beni in 48 hours, a civic group said on Saturday.

Thousands marched in the Mexican beach resort of Acapulco on Friday to demand answers about the fate of 43 missing trainee teachers, who authorities fear were massacred by police in league with…

Opposition candidate Aecio Neves would defeat President Dilma Rousseff by almost 13 percentage points in the Oct. 26 runoff to Brazil’s presidential election, according to a poll published on…

Russia and Ukraine made progress on Friday towards resolving a dispute over gas supplies in time for winter.

Houthi rebels sweeping across Yemen clashed with armed tribesmen for a second straight day on Saturday in violence that left at least 16 people dead, medics said. Twelve rebels were killed in a…