International

Brazilians voted Sunday in the most unpredictable presidential election in decades and the first since the end of an economic boom underpinning the leftist Workers' Party's 12-year rule.

At the Autumn Meeting of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (PA), Russian official Sergey Naryshkin made the Ukrainian crisis a top European security issue, while speaking at a conference on new…

The Pakistani Taliban have declared allegiance to IS militants in Syria and Iraq.

In a statement, the group appealed for unity against the “enemy” - the US-led alliance, saying it fully…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under increasing fire in a data sharing scandal that broke on Saturday.

A report in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper revealed that Germany’s…

Washington will not be the one to decide Sweden’s policies, Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström said after the US criticized Stockholm’s plans to officially recognize Palestine as a…

North Korean delegates have met with the South’s top officials in an unusual and rare visit, as both countries agreed to resume high-level talks which have been strained by military tensions on…

At least 22,000 households were left without power in the Amami area in Kagoshima Prefecture, on the most southwesterly main island of Kyushu as powerful typhoon Phanfone moved in, Japan’s…

Somali government troops backed by African Union forces have captured a key stronghold of al-Shabab militants. The AU says al-Shabab, who had held Barawe – about 200km south of Mogadishu – for six…

IS militants in Iraq have carried out mass executions, abducted women and girls as sex slaves, and used child soldiers in what may amount to systematic war crimes that demand prosecution…

The Turkish Parliament voted on Thursday for a motion authorizing the government to send troops abroad and allowing foreign forces to use Turkish territory for possible military operations against…

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has extended her lead ahead of Sunday’s election and would win re-election in a likely second-round runoff, while her main challengers are running neck-and-neck…

The UN has described Ebola as the world’s “highest priority.” Anthony Banbury, head of the UN Mission on Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), began a tour of the three hardest-hit nations in the…

The crowds of protesters on the streets of Hong Kong shrank sharply Friday after the territory’s leader agreed to meet with their leaders over their demands for electoral reforms.

Police…

Almost 30 Libyan soldiers were killed and 70 wounded in a double suicide bombing and clashes in the port city of Benghazi on Thursday, medics said.

Four people were also killed in a…

The US State Department has approved a $1.75 billion sale to Saudi Arabia to upgrade its Patriot air defense system with PAC-3 missiles, a deal that would benefit Lockheed Martin…

Muslim hate crime in London has shot up by almost 65% in twelve months. Metropolitan Police figures show that offences have increased from 344 to 570 in the last year, with many attacks targeting…

North Korea is ready to resume six-party talks on its nuclear program but must maintain its readiness in the face of joint US-South Korean military exercises, a senior envoy in Geneva said on…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has condemned indiscriminate shelling in east Ukraine after a Red Cross employee was killed. Swiss citizen Laurent DuPasquier, 38, was killed…

At least nine police officers were killed and tens of civilians were injured when two back to back explosions rocked the capital Kabul early Wednesday morning targeting army buses a day after the…

Thousands of Catalan demonstrators hit the streets of Barcelona and Madrid on Tuesday, outraged at the Spanish Constitutional Court’s decision to suspend Catalonia’s November vote for independence…

Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic accused prosecutors of lying about his role in Bosnia’s descent into civil war to make up for a lack of evidence as he took the floor to wrap up his…

NATO welcomed its 13th secretary general on Wednesday. Jens Stoltenberg, a former two-term prime minister of Norway, succeeds Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who had been the alliance’s top leader since…

Months after Owais Jakhrani was sacked from the Pakistan navy for radical views, he led an audacious mission to take over a warship and turn its guns on a US naval vessel in the open seas.

Three judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have ordered Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to appear at a pre-trial meeting on October 8 in a criminal case in The Hague in which he is a…

A dozen more bodies were found Wednesday near the ash-covered summit of a Japanese volcano as searches resumed amid concern of toxic gasses and another eruption.The death toll from last Saturday’s…