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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced an array of new nuclear weapons on Thursday, in one of his most bellicose speeches in years, saying they could hit almost any point in the world and…

Israeli police arrived on Friday at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home where media reports said they were to question him for an eighth time over charges of fraud and bribery.

An…

At least 24 people have died in a fire at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, according to the prosecutor’s office and the ministry of emergency. The prosecutor’s office…

Catalonia’s former separatist leader, Carles Puigdemont, has withdrawn his candidacy for president of the Spanish region after months of political deadlock with Madrid.

Puigdemont was…

Italy’s rival political parties wrapped up a bitter campaign on Friday ahead of an election on Sunday in which former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi could once again play a leading role.

Armed assailants attacked several targets in Burkina Faso’s capital on Friday, including the army headquarters and the French embassy, in a coordinated assault that France’s ambassador to the…

The Afghan government is willing to recognize the Taliban as a legitimate political party as part of a potential ceasefire agreement with the militant group, President Ashraf Ghani said on…

Three Nobel peace laureates urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the military on Wednesday to end the “genocide” of Rohingya Muslims now or face prosecution.

US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior aide Jared Kushner has lost his top-level security clearance, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, a decision with potentially…

Russia said on Wednesday that militants in Syria’s besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta were blocking aid and the evacuation of people who want to leave, despite Moscow’s announcement of a…

At least 15 people were killed in train collision in northern Egypt, the health ministry said.  Another 40 people were hurt in the collision between a freight train and a passenger train in…

Lebanese Prime Minister’s Saad al-Hariri arrived in Riyadh on Wednesday, his first trip to Saudi Arabia since he announced his resignation there during a visit last November, which triggered a…

Jeremy Corbyn’s anticipated speech on Brexit, laying out his party’s vision of post-Brexit relations with Europe, ticked many boxes with his supporters.

The European Union stands ready to regulate cryptocurrencies if risks from the sector are not tackled at the global level, the bloc’s financial services chief said on Monday.

As expected, delegates at the CDU party conference in Berlin on Monday approved by a wide margin the grand coalition agreement with the Social Democrats (SPD), with only 27 of the 975 delegates…

The Gaza Strip’s collective of charitable organizations said more than 1,000 Palestinians have died as a result of the ongoing Israeli blockade on the coastal enclave.

The coordinator of…

One hundred and ten girls are missing after an attack on a school in northeast Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, the information ministry said on Sunday, in what may be one of the…

Five people were killed and four more were in hospital on Monday after an explosion and fire destroyed a three-storey building in the central English city of Leicester, police said. The cause of…

European Union foreign ministers on Monday asked the bloc’s top diplomat to draw up a list of sanctions to be imposed on senior Myanmar military officers over “serious and systematic human…

Militants in East Ghouta, who continue to hold civilians hostage and shell Damascus in breach of a humanitarian pause, have started to stage a provocative chemical attack, the Russian Center for…

The United States is willing to talk to North Korea, but only if those talks will lead to an end of the North Korean nuclear program.

“We will see if Pyongyang’s message today, that it…

Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the Syria situation over the phone on Sunday, the Kremlin press office reported…

Hundreds of desperate Rohingya Muslims are still pouring over the Myanmar border into Bangladesh every week, bringing harrowing accounts of torture and murder, six months after a military…

China’s ruling Communist Party on Sunday set the stage for President Xi Jinping to stay in office indefinitely, with a proposal to remove a constitutional clause limiting presidential service to…

North Korea is willing to hold talks with the United States, South Korean President Moon Jae-In said in a statement on Sunday.

The South Korean leader said he had met with the North…