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The Roman Catholic Church’s chief advisor on clerical sexual abuse broke ranks with Pope Francis on Saturday after the pontiff accused Chilean abuse victims of slander.

At least five people were killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday, the UN said, as the authorities cracked down on a protest against President Joseph Kabila.

Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court on Sunday ruled against calls by Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers to delay a parliamentary election, expected to be called for May, to allow hundreds of thousands of…

Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Kabul and killed at least 19 people including a foreigner, sparking a 12-hour battle that left terrified guests scrambling to escape and parts of the building…

Protestors took to the streets en masse across the United States Saturday, hoisting anti-Donald Trump placards, banging drums and donning pink hats for a second Women's March opposing the US…

Turkish forces crossed the border into Syria’s Afrin district on Sunday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said.

At a news conference in Istanbul, he said Turkey’s military aimed to…

Tens of thousands of people rallied against anti-corruption legislation in Romania’s capital Bucharest, braving heavy snow, as well as a large police presence.

US President Donald Trump marked the first anniversary of his inauguration Saturday with his government in shutdown, accusing Democrats of taking Americans hostage with their demands and putting…

Myanmar was making final preparations to take back the first batch of Rohingya Muslims who had fled conflict in troubled Rakhine State, state media said on Saturday, despite growing doubts about…

French President Emmanuel Macron has suggested that Britain is likely to negotiate a unique relationship with the European Union before it leaves the bloc next year, while stressing that any…

The German government said on Friday that it would “immediately” stop approving arms exports to anyone participating in the war in Yemen. The move would include Saudi Arabia, a major buyer of…

Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire on Saturday along their volatile frontier in Kashmir, killing at least four civilians and a soldier in the latest escalation of violence in the disputed…

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met on Saturday with the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government’s Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani for the first time since conflict broke out over a…

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is planning to force Jacob Zuma to quit as president, as its leaders gather to outline the party’s program for the coming year.

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Surviving militants are fleeing from Syria to Central Asia, including Northern Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday at a meeting of the UN Security Council devoted…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey had “de-facto” launched a new operation on the ground to oust Kurdish militia from a northern Syrian enclave, defying US warnings that…

Turkey on Friday started shelling the Syrian town of Afrin held by a US-backed Kurdish militia that Ankara considers "terrorists" in a move to oust them, the defense minister said.

The main focus of national security for the United States is now power competition and not terrorism, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Friday, announcing new National Defense Strategy…

Saudi Arabia has violated international humanitarian law in Yemen and unjustly jailed activists peacefully seeking social reforms, a human rights group said on Thursday.

Pope Francis accused victims of Chile’s most notorious pedophile of slander on Thursday, an astonishing end to a visit meant to help heal the wounds of a sex abuse scandal that has cost the…

The Iraqi parliament has failed to set a new date for the upcoming legislative elections, Iraqi media sources reported on Thursday.

Seventy percent of South Sudan’s children are out of school and the young country risks losing a generation that would make it harder to rebuild after conflict ended, a United Nations official…

British Prime Minister Theresa May and her French counterpart Emmanuel Macron agreed a new border security deal on Thursday, through which the UK will pay more to France to stop migrants trying…

The sacked former leader of Catalonia said on Friday he was perfectly eligible to be reelected as regional president and there was no reason why he could not rule the Spanish region remotely…

A Turkish military CASA CN-235 cargo plane on Wednesday afternoon crashed in the southern Anatolian province of Isparta while on training exercises, killing three Turkish crew members. Turkish…