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Ukraine's president said on Wednesday Russia had removed the bulk of its forces from his country, raising hopes for a peace drive now underway after five months of conflict in which more than 3,…

A suspected case of Ebola was discovered and isolated in Italy's central region of Marche on Tuesday, authorities said.

Hundreds of thousands of people were fleeing flash floods on Wednesday after having been warned to evacuate as the death toll from severe monsoon rains and flash floods in Pakistan and neighboring…

Pakistani warplanes struck three militant hideouts in a Taliban stronghold near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing 35 insurgents, AP reported the army as saying.

The strikes targeted…

US President Barack Obama told Congressional leaders that he has enough authority and doesn’t need their authorization to broaden military action against the Islamic State, ahead of a speech on 9/…

Ukraine's president has promised to introduce legislation in parliament as early as next week that would offer greater autonomy to regions in the country's pro-Russian east, where separatists have…

Israeli troops killed a Palestinian man during an arrest raid in the West Bank early Wednesday that was met with violent resistance, the military and a Palestinian medic said.

Ahmad Betawi…

The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has exceeded 1.37 million, according to the statement from Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD). As of August 2014, some 1.37 million…

Top US and China security officials disagreed this week over what the United States said was China's intercept of a US Navy patrol plane near the southern island province of Hainan.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino on Wednesday asked Congress to swiftly enact a law creating a Muslim autonomous area in the south of the mainly Roman Catholic state, a crucial step in ending…

Japan and the United States are exploring the possibility of Tokyo acquiring offensive weapons that would allow Japan to project power far beyond its borders, Japanese officials said, a move…

A bomb exploded next to an underground train station in the Chilean capital of Santiago on Monday afternoon, wounding at least 10 people, and the government said it bore the signs of "a terrorist…

Liberia, the country worst hit by West Africa's Ebola epidemic, should see thousands of new cases in coming weeks as the virus spreads exponentially, the World Health Organization said on Monday.…

Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first visit to India as head of state on a regional visit starting this week which will also take in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Tajikistan, the foreign…

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said Monday that Finance Minister Guido Mantega asked not to stay in the job if she is re-elected in October.

Rousseff made the comments to local online…

The death toll from floods in Pakistan and India reached 400 on Tuesday as authorities in both countries warned of more flooding in the days ahead.The flash floods, which began on Sept. 3, have…

The Israeli navy arrested four Palestinian fishermen and seized their boat on Tuesday, a Gaza official says, in one of the first instances of friction between the sides since the Gaza war ended…

European Union member states have formally adopted new sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine crisis.

The new measures include restrictions on large Russian state-owned oil companies raising…

An investigation by The New York Times has found that several prominent Washington, D.C. think tanks have regularly taken donations from foreign entities in exchange for using their influence over…

International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Christine Lagarde urged Germany to increase investments to help spur the euro zone's flagging economic recovery, adding that the bloc as a whole needed to…

Abdullah Abdullah, one of two contenders for Afghanistan's presidency, said Monday that he will not accept the expected outcome of the election's second round and that talks with his opponent to…

At least six government troopers have been killed and a few more injured in a bomb blast in Afghanistan's northeastern province of Badakhshan. Local police said on Monday that the soldiers were…

Australia has been accused of a "chain of human rights violations" in its treatment of asylum seekers by the incoming United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al-…

Parents and students in Canada's British Columbia are scrambling for learning and daycare options again as half a million students face the 2nd week of the new school year without classes. Over 40…

Scores of Palestinians staged a protest in East Beit-ul-Muqaddas on Sunday after hearing that a youth from their neighborhood had died of wounds suffered in a clash with Israeli police last week,…