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China appreciates North Korea’s “important efforts” to ease tension on the Korean peninsula, senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi told the North’s foreign minister on Tuesday, hours after he called…

The public prosecutor for Germany’s northern state of Schleswig-Holstein announced on Tuesday that it had requested the extradition of former Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont.  

British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn risked further souring his relationship with the Jewish community by attending a Passover event with a left-wing Jewish group that has called for the…

Commuters across France faced severe disruptions on Tuesday as rail workers launched three months of rolling strikes, a major test of President Emmanuel Macron's resolve to reshape the country…

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was investigating “disturbing reports of serious harm to civilians” in an Afghan airstrike on a religious school that security sources say left dozens of…

China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday suggested that the poisoning of a former double agent could benefit the British government by distracting attention from problems around Brexit…

Long-delayed Afghan parliamentary and district council elections should be possible this year despite major security and logistical challenges, Afghan election authorities said on Sunday as they…

The most powerful Syrian rebel faction on the fringes of Damascus began abandoning its stronghold in the once rebel-held enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Monday, in the final chapter of the…

Boko Haram fighters attacked a military base and two surrounding villages near the flashpoint Nigerian city of Maiduguri overnight, killing at least 18 people and wounding 84, officials said on…

President Donald Trump said on Sunday that there will be no deal to legalize the status of young adult immigrants called Dreamers and he said the US-Mexico border is becoming more dangerous.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his comments targeting Turkey’s ongoing military operation in the northwestern Syrian region of…

At least 20 people have been killed and 200 injured in Indian-administered Kashmir after fierce clashes between fighters and government forces on Sunday.

Four civilians were killed when…

An airstrike by the US-backed Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen killed 12 civilians, including seven children, in the coastal city of Hodeidah on Monday, medics and a witness said.

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Russians voted in a presidential election on Sunday that was expected to give Vladimir Putin an easy victory.

Opinion polls give Putin, the incumbent, support of around 70%, or nearly 10…

Turkey’s president said Sunday the Turkish military and allied Syrian forces have taken “total” control of the town center of Afrin, the target of a nearly two-month-old offensive against a…

Germany should consider stepping up its border controls and the suspension of the Schengen Agreement, German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Sunday.

“Not that many border points…

Five members of an Indian family were killed and two injured by shelling from Pakistani troops on Sunday along the Line of Control, the de facto border between India and Pakistan, according to…

Sri Lanka’s president announced he has lifted the nationwide state of emergency that was imposed after communal clashes resulted in the deaths of three people.  The latest series of…

Thousands of people braved freezing temperatures in London to unite against the “evil of racism” and the growth of far-right movements.

Protesters gathered near Oxford Circus on Saturday…

US President Donald Trump slammed the FBI as he hailed the firing of a veteran bureau agent as a “great day for democracy,” a move his attorney said he hoped would bring an end to a probe into…

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday pledged to overcome differences to formulate a roadmap for a reform of the eurozone which they will seek to get…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has condemned the illegal presence of US coalition troops in Syria, saying the western forces deployed on the ground amount to “a direct involvement in the…

Russia’s Foreign Ministry ordered the expulsion of 23 British diplomats from Russia on Saturday in a tit-for-tat response to Britain’s decision to expel Russian envoys in connection with the…

The United Nations has said that there were alarming reports about civilian deaths in the Syrian enclave of Afrin, where Kurdish forces were said to be blocking civilians from leaving the city…