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Security forces in the Maldives have sealed off the country’s parliament and arrested two opposition lawmakers amid a deepening crisis over President Abdulla Yameen’s refusal to free jailed…

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ministers would grant formal authorization on Sunday to a rogue West Bank settlement in response to last month killing of a rabbi who lived there…

Turkey said eight of its troops were killed on Saturday in Ankara’s military operation against a Syrian Kurdish militia, the deadliest day in the two-week-old offensive in the enclave of Afrin,…

China said on Sunday it is “firmly opposed” to the United States’ new nuclear weapons policy statement, describing its speculation about Chinese intentions as “wild guesses”.

Thousands of people from across Greece gathered in the capital, Athens, on Sunday to show their disapproval of the Greek government’s potential compromise in a long-standing dispute with…

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had intentions to invade Qatar at the beginning of a diplomatic crisis that erupted in June, according to Qatar’s defense minister.

A lone gunman targeted foreigners in a drive-by shooting spree on Saturday in a central Italian city, wounding six people, one of them with life-threatening injuries, before being arrested.

Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party nominated current President Nicolas Maduro as its candidate for presidential elections expected before the end of April.

The US-backed Saudi-led coalition that is fighting Houthi fighters in Yemen is responsible for the deaths of scores of children since last summer, a United Nations report says.

Al…

Concerned about Russia’s growing tactical nuclear weapons, the United States will expand its nuclear capabilities, a policy document released on Friday said, a move some critics say could…

Former Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein slammed US President Donald Trump and Republicans after the release of a previously classified memo alleging abuse of government surveillance powers by…

A high-profile unofficial summit has been held in Brussels to discuss the handover of the Palestinian government in the besieged Gaza Strip, Wafa reported on Friday. According to the Palestinian…

About 90 people are feared drowned after a smugglers’ boat carrying mostly Pakistani migrants capsized off Libya’s coast early Friday, the UN’s migration agency said.

According to a leaked EU report obtained by the Guardian, Israel is developing archaeological and tourism sites to legitimize illegal settlements in the Palestinian neighborhoods of Beit-ul-…

Chancellor Angela Merkel said her conservatives and their Social Democrat would-be German coalition partners still have a lot of work to do to overcome differences on a range of policy issues.…

There are at least five mass graves, all previously unreported, that have been confirmed by The Associated Press through multiple interviews with more than two dozen survivors in Bangladesh…

The eldest son of late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide on Thursday aged 68 after being treated for months for depression, Cuban state-run…

US President Donald Trump publicly attacked the FBI’s leadership on Friday, accusing them of politicizing their investigations in favor of Democrats as he gets set to approve the release of an…

The Chinese and Afghan officials are discussing the construction of a base in Wakhan Corridor, a remote mountainous strip that is isolated from the rest of Afghan territory, according to Afghan…

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has said that his country would not force Syrian refugees to return home.

Hariri made the announcement speech at a donor conference in Beirut calling…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the US President Donald Trump administration made a “hostile step” when it published a list of Russian businessmen and politicians as part of a…

UAE-backed separatists in war-ravaged Yemen have surrounded the presidential palace in the self-proclaimed government’s capital Aden, moving closer Tuesday to taking full control of the southern…

Catalonia was plunged into further uncertainty on Tuesday as the region’s parliamentary speaker postponed a crucial vote to reappoint ousted separatist president Carles Puigdemont but vowed to…

Nearly 63 million women are “missing” from India’s population due to feticide, disease, neglect, or inadequate nutrition, a government survey says, adding that more than two million women…

Greek authorities consider that it is possible to settle the so-called Macedonian naming issue within two months, which means ahead of the July NATO summit, a source familiar with the course of…