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South Korea will sign a deal this month to buy 40 Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) F-35 fighter jets for about 7.34 trillion won ($7.06 billion) for delivery in 2018-2021, two people with…

The US Secret Service has erected a second fence between the White House and a thoroughfare popular with tourists, local residents and workers, days after a man scaled the main fence and entered…

Russia is set to renew the country’s strategic nuclear forces by 100 percent, not 70 percent as previously announced, according to Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

“The formation of…

On Monday evening, the Pentagon announced its airstrikes against militant positions in Syria had begun, marking a watershed moment in the fight against the Islamic State and other…

The Vatican has placed its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, under house arrest on charges of sexually abusing children. The former archbishop was defrocked in June…

Lebanon should not be part of the US-led coalition against IS, the leader of Hezbollah said in a televised speech Tuesday night. Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah opposed US military intervention in Syria,…

Qatar claims there's no problem on the way of hosting the 2022 soccer World Cup despite a FIFA Executive Committee member suggesting that the tournament would have to move because of the tiny Arab…

The number of Ebola infections will triple to 20,000 by November, soaring by the thousands every week if efforts are not significantly stepped up to stop the outbreak, the WHO warned Tuesday. The…

The prime minister of the self-proclaimed People’s Republic of Donetsk said Tuesday that Pro-Russia militias have removed artillery from frontline areas where Ukraine had also withdrawn, in line…

At least 22 people have died in flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains in remote northeastern India, officials said on Tuesday, in the second flood tragedy to hit the…

Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday blamed the United States for his country’s long war, a final swipe at the country that helped bring him to power 13 years ago but towards which he…

Clashes erupted Tuesday between dozens of Palestinians and Israeli forces in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil also known as Hebron after Israeli troops killed two Palestinians, with the…

A second video has been released showing British journalist John Cantlie, who is being held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants.

It comes less than a week after his first appearance on…

Israel’s military said it shot down a Syrian warplane over the Golan Heights on Tuesday, in the first such incident in three decades.

Israeli military sources said the plane apparently…

The United States and several Persian Gulf Arab allies launched air and missile strikes on Islamic State (IS) strongholds in Syria on Tuesday, US officials said, opening a new, far more…

Afghanistan's two presidential candidates signed a power-sharing deal Sunday, capped with a hug and a handshake, three months after a disputed runoff that threatened to plunge the country into…

The world comes to New York this week, accompanied by baggage full of crises.

It’s the 69th annual United Nations General Assembly special debate, and it has not been a peaceful year, the…

Rival groups in Yemen have signed a UN-brokered peace deal after Houthi fighters seized the government headquarters and the prime minister resigned following raging violence in the capital.

Turkish security forces have used tear gas and water cannon to disperse Kurds who had gathered in support of Kurdish refugees fleeing attacks in Syria, and those battling ISIL fighters on Syrian…

Afghanistan’s Taliban militants on Monday decried a pact by rival election candidates to form a government of national unity as a “sham” orchestrated by the United States and unacceptable to the…

Fiji’s former military ruler was sworn in as prime minister on Monday after winning 60 percent of the vote in the South Pacific nation’s first elections since he seized power eight years ago.

A Bahraini appeals court has confirmed five-year jail terms imposed on nine Shiites, among them a photojournalist and an online activist, for calling for the overthrow of the monarchy. Dozens of…

New Zealand may vote next year on changing its flag, newly re-elected Premier John Key says, as the country looks to assert an identity independent of colonial ties to Britain. Key’s center-right…

The Russian prime minister said sanctions against the country by the West are unproductive.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday no ransom was paid for the release of Turkish hostages held by Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and that it was the result of diplomatic and…