International

Angry protests have erupted on the Yemeni island of Socotra after the United Arab Emirates deployed four military aircraft and more than 100 troops to the famed UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Public comments by Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's new chief lawyer, about the US president and attorney Michael Cohen in the last 24 hours threw a wrench in Trump's legal strategy, angering and…

At least 24 people have been killed in a double suicide attack on a mosque and a market in northeast Nigeria, police said.

More than a dozen were hurt in the explosions in the town of…

Armenian protesters blocked roads in and around the capital on Wednesday, responding to a call from opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan for a campaign of civil disobedience to force the ruling…

At least seven people have been reported dead after armed men, including two suicide bombers, attacked Libya’s electoral commission headquarters.

The attack on Wednesday in the capital…

China’s foreign minister arrived in North Korea’s capital on Wednesday and could meet with leader Kim Jong-un while trying to ensure a larger role for Beijing in the new round of nuclear…

US President Donald Trump’s lawyers are preparing for a legal showdown with special counsel Robert Mueller, according to sources familiar with their thinking.

France’s interior minister promised on Wednesday to boost security at protests after hooded youths ran amok at May Day demonstrations in Paris, torching cars and a McDonald’s restaurant.

A 26-storey building has collapsed after being engulfed in flames in Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, killing at least one person. More than 150 firefighters are battling the blaze which is…

The foreign minister of North Korea’s chief ally China will visit Pyongyang this week following the historic summit between the leaders of the two Koreas.

Members of a UN Security Council team probing Myanmar’s crisis over its ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority arrived in the country’s capital on Monday after a visit to Bangladesh, where about 700,…

The European Union will deploy a new financial weapon next week to try to rein in what Brussels sees as illiberal nationalism rising in the east of the bloc and threatening its democratic…

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in the United Arab Emirates late Sunday for talks aimed at boosting political and economic ties. Abu Dhabi is the first leg of Abe’s Middle East tour…

Powerful explosions have been heard in the countryside of Hama and Aleppo provinces, the Syrian state news agency reports. It says military bases there were hit by rockets launched by an…

Sajid Javid has been appointed the UK’s new home secretary following the shock resignation of Amber Rudd late on Sunday night in the wake of a growing scandal over the so-called Windrush…

At least 29 people were killed, including Agence France-Presse chief photographer Shah Marai and five other journalists, when two suicide blasts ripped through Kabul on Monday, police and AFP…

Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian demonstrators and wounded more than 950 at the Gaza border, despite the UN human rights chief urging Israel to stop using excessive force against…

Friday’s summit between the leaders of North and South Korea was a “historic meeting” paving the way for the start of a new era, North Korea’s media say.

The North’s Kim Jong-un and Moon…

United Nations human rights experts have expressed serious concerns about racism rooted in the fabric of the United Kingdom’s society, given the disproportionate number of people of African…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to strengthen communications and maintain peace along the border following the conclusion of a two day “informal…

The death toll has risen to nine in Friday’s stabbing attack outside a middle school in northwestern China allegedly carried out by a former pupil seeking revenge for having been bullied. The…

Campaigning for Malaysia’s general election started officially on Saturday, pitting Prime Minister Najib Razak against his former mentor, Mahathir Mohamad, in a contest marred by claims of…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in embraced after pledging on Friday to work for the "complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula," punctuating a day of…

The Armenian parliament will elect a new prime minister on May 1, according to a statement on the parliament’s website and the parliamentary speaker. This is expected to be followed by new…

US Air Force B-52 bombers have carried out training in the “vicinity” of the South China Sea and the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, the force said on Friday, in what a Chinese newspaper…