International

Hungary and Poland want a strong say in the future of Europe and firmly reject the EU’s migrant quotas, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday after meeting his counterpart from…

An informed source from the National Iraqi Alliance has indicated the possibility to reach a solution for the crisis between Baghdad and Erbil soon, the London-based Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper…

A record-shattering Arctic freeze kept its grip on much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday but temperatures everywhere except the Northeast were expected to warm within…

South Korean President Moon Jae-In on Tuesday urged authorities to organize "follow-up measures to quickly restore … dialogue" between the two countries, saying he sees Kim's suggestion for…

Congolese security forces killed at least seven people and at least one policeman died amid violence as more than a thousand people demonstrated in the capital against President Joseph Kabila’s…

Police in Brazil say 77 inmates are on the run after escaping amid a riot at a jail in the central state of Goias.

The authorities say nine prisoners were killed and 14 injured when a…

A far-right German politician has been condemned for an anti-Arab and anti-Muslim tweet, which briefly saw her suspended from the platform.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Beatrix…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has appointed new ministers for defense, information and industry in a cabinet reshuffle.

State news agency SANA reported on Tuesday that Assad has…

Moldovan President Igor Dodon on Tuesday criticized a decision by the country’s constitutional court to suspend his powers temporarily due to a wrangle between him and the pro-Western government…

Pakistan has summoned the US ambassador, an embassy spokesman said on Tuesday, in a rare public rebuke after Donald Trump lashed out at Islamabad with threats to cut aid over “lies” about…

President Donald Trump slammed Pakistan for “lies & deceit” in a New Year’s Day tweet that said Islamabad had played US leaders for “fools”. “No more,” Trump tweeted, AP reported.

Kim Jong-Un urged North Korea to mass-produce nuclear warheads and missiles in a defiant New Year message Monday suggesting he would continue to accelerate a rogue weapons program that has sent…

Pope Francis in his year-end message said that 2017 had been marred by war, lies and injustice, and he urged people to take responsibility for their actions.

French President Emmanuel Macron vowed to pursue his reform agenda with the “same intensity” in 2018 and kick-start a “French renaissance” in his first New Year’s address as leader, which comes…

Taking over the EU presidency in the present times poses a serious challenge for Bulgaria. Ongoing Brexit talks, debates to establish a coordinated position on refugee and migration matters, and…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party unanimously urged legislators in a non-binding resolution on Sunday to effectively annex Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank,…

A small plane crash Sunday in northwest Costa Rica killed 12 people, including 10 US citizens, officials said.

The single-engine turboprop’s two Costa Rican pilots also died in the crash…

More than 1,000 ceasefire agreements were signed with Syrian towns and settlements in 2017, the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation said Saturday.

“This year, more than 1,000…

A seaplane crashed into a Sydney river on Sunday, killing six people on a sightseeing flight ahead of the New Year’s Eve celebrations at city’s harbor.

A suicide attacker blew himself up at a funeral in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least 15 mourners and wounding another 14, officials said, capping a deadly year for civilians.

At least 20 civilians were killed on Saturday when US-backed Saudi-led coalition fighter jets hit Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, witnesses and a medical source told Xinhua. The warplanes…

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has rejected a request by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over the border exits, a parliamentarian source said on Sunday.

Germans have rarely been so divided about the changes taking place in their society, the country’s long-time leader Angela Merkel said Sunday, adding in her New Year’s address that she is…

The Turkish foreign ministry on Saturday denounced a decision in Greece to grant asylum to a Turkish helicopter co-pilot, who fled the country after last year’s failed coup, as “politically…

Nick Ackerman, a former Watergate prosecutor, said Saturday that the big issue in special counsel Robert Mueller investigation is not whether the US President Donald Trump campaign coordinated…