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Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who has endured a year of withering attacks from President Donald Trump, was fired by the Justice Department on Friday just days before he was to retire…

Fifteen people, including at least five children, drowned on Saturday when the small boat they were traveling on capsized in the Aegean Sea, Greek coast guard officials said.

The…

A Taliban suicide car bomber has detonated explosives near to a compound for foreign security contractors in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials said.  At least three civilians were killed…

Germany’s new top diplomat Heiko Maas appealed for Poland to take its place as one of the European Union’s leading decision makers, during a state visit to Warsaw on Friday.

Maas also…

Oxfam faced fresh allegations of sexual misconduct by staff in Haiti, with a report on Saturday claiming the charity kept a senior aid worker in the earthquake-hit country for over a year…

The death toll from the collapse of a pedestrian bridge has risen to at least six, Miami police said on Friday as crews searched under the huge concrete slabs that fell on to a busy highway.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, bruised by half a year of post-election coalition haggling, was Wednesday narrowly confirmed by parliament to her fourth and likely final term at the helm of…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday threatened to soon crush militants in northern Iraq, after his foreign minister last week said Ankara and Baghdad would carry out a joint…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has announced the upcoming withdrawal of the country from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the presidential press service said on…

Republican Rick Saccone refused to admit defeat in the high-stakes US congressional race on Tuesday after his opponent from the Democratic Party, Conor Lamb claimed victory.

Britain will expel 23 Russian diplomats in retaliation for the nerve agent attack on a former Russian double agent, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday.

A human rights monitor has called on Saudi Arabia to immediately investigate the claims that authorities physically mistreated prominent people who were arrested last year, and hold those…

During his brief visit to the Gaza Strip yesterday, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah called for Hamas to hand over control of internal security in the coastal enclave. “As…

US President Donald Trump signaled on Tuesday that conservative commentator Larry Kudlow is the frontrunner to become the top economic adviser at the White House, though he said he was also…

A top UN rights expert warned on Monday that the crackdown on Myanmar’s Rohingya minority bears “the hallmarks of genocide” and insisted the government should be held accountable.

Tillerson’s departure caps months of friction between the Republican president and the 65-year-old former Exxon Mobil chief executive. The tensions peaked last fall amid reports Tillerson had…

Russian armed forces will respond if the lives of Russian servicemen in Syria are threatened, including in the event of a missile strike on Damascus by the US forces, the Russian General Staff…

An explosion has struck the convoy of Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah upon his entrance into the Gaza Strip, lightly injuring several people.  The explosive device detonated…

Turkey said on Tuesday its army and allied rebels had surrounded the Kurdish city of Afrin in northern Syria, raising the prospect of another devastating siege in the country’s long conflict.

Italian right-wing leader Matteo Salvini denounced the European Union as “destroyers” on Tuesday for policies he said robbed citizens of the right to hope, a week after his League party became…

Russian state TV has accused Britain of poisoning former double agent Sergey Skripal in southern England as part of a special operation designed to spoil Russia’s hosting of the soccer World Cup…

Former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi called on the defeated Democratic Party (PD) to help his center-right bloc form a government, saying Italy had to avoid a swift return to the polls.

The pilot of a helicopter that went down in New York’s East River Sunday is the sole survivor of the crash, after all five passengers died, authorities say. Three of the passengers had been…

At least 50 people were killed when a plane approached the runway from the wrong direction, crashed and burst into flames while landing at Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan Airport in Nepal on Monday.

Weapons imports to the Middle East and Asia have boomed over the past five years, fuelled by war and tensions in those regions, a new study showed on Monday.