International

Two Germans held hostage for over six months by al Qaeda linked militants in the Philippines have been released. Stefan Viktor Okonek and Henrike Dielen were captured by Abu…

Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal has urged Muslims to defend the Al-Aqsa mosque in Beit ul-Muqaddas (Jerusalem) after Israeli forces restricted the entrance for Palestinians. He accused Israel of trying…

Turkey failed to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council after member states voted on Thursday.

The five non-permanent seats were given to Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New…

The first trial weighing charges of genocide against Cambodia’s brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime opened Friday with a prosecutor saying it will show that Cambodians were enslaved in inhumane…

US officials have held direct talks for the first time with a Kurdish political party in Syria linked to Turkey’s PKK, seen by the US and others as a terrorist organization, the US State…

The UN Chief Ban Ki-moon has launched another urgent appeal for funds to help fight Ebola after a $1bn trust fund he launched in September has received just $100,000 so far. The appeal comes amid…

Early returns from elections in the southern African country of Mozambique show the ruling party candidate for the presidency with a comfortable lead. The results released Thursday night showed…

President Obama said Friday he is open to appointing what would essentially be an 'Ebola Czar' to deal with the ongoing situation with the deadly disease in the US, ABC News reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko in Milan Friday for talks amid encouraging signs the two leaders are trying to ease tensions over eastern Ukraine.…

Mozambicans started voting Wednesday in a tough electoral test for the ruling Frelimo, the party that has run the resource-rich country since independence in 1975.

Voters in neat lines…

Senior military officials from the two Koreas are holding talks for the first time in seven years, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reports.

The news agency, citing an unnamed source, said…

Leading American philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky commended the British parliamentary vote to recognize the Palestinian Territories as a state on Wednesday but stressed that the US…

A Saudi judge on Wednesday sentenced to death a prominant Shia Muslim cleric whose arrest two years ago prompted deadly protests, the cleric’s brother said on his Twitter account, as reported by…

A long-running dispute over natural gas supplies will be on the agenda when Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko hold talks in Italy later this week, the Kremlin…

Washington and Moscow are renewing security cooperation, which ground to a halt amid the rift caused by the Ukrainian crisis. The two are back in business together to share intelligence on the IS…

The number of cases in the Ebola outbreak has risen to 8,914, with the number of dead climbing to 4,447, as the World Health Organization warned Tuesday that there could be up to 10,000 new cases…

Officials suspended Tuesday’s Serbia-Albania Euro 2016 qualifier in Belgrade after a drone carrying a large banner with the Albanian flag entered the stadium late in the first half and sparked…

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised growing economic ties with "natural ally" Beijing as he hosted Chinese premier Li Keqiang for high-profile talks.

Li's three-day visit to Russia…

Western countries must acknowledge their policy faults and stop their mechanical repetition to improve relations with Russia and the security situation in general, Russia’s representative to NATO…

British lawmakers voted Monday in favor of recognizing Palestine as a state, a symbolic move intended to increase pressure for a "two-state solution".

Legislators in the House of Commons…

A mosque was set alight in a suspected arson attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and the name of an Israeli vigilante group called “price tag” was found scribbled on an outside wall,…

Yemen’s president named the country’s UN envoy as prime minister on Monday in a move welcomed by the Shi’ite Muslim Houthi group which controls the capital, signaling an easing in the country’s…

Protesters in Mexico have attacked the local government headquarters in the state of Guerrero in anger at the disappearance of 43 students.

Hundreds of demonstrators broke windows and set…

Fighting in Iraq’s western Anbar province has forced up to 180,000 people to flee since the city of Hit fell to IS earlier this month, the United Nations said on Monday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has made his first public appearance since 3 September, the country’s official news agency KCNA said on Tuesday. Rodong Sinmun daily newspaper carried several…