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Russia has started establishing a permanent military presence at naval and air bases in Syria, the defense minister said on Tuesday as parliament ratified a deal with Damascus to cement Russian…

More than 250 migrants were rescued in the central Mediterranean during the night between Monday and Tuesday, Italy’s Coast Guard said. A statement said the migrants, in one large rubber dinghy…

Saudi Arabia has released 23 of the 200-or-so powerful individuals detained since November on corruption charges after they reached deals with the government, Okaz newspaper reported on Tuesday…

Speaker of the Kurdish Parliament Yousif Mohamed announced on Tuesday his resignation from his post, a step that resulted from the Kurdish government’s forcible dispersal of peaceful…

Germany’s Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel proposed on Tuesday that the European Union’s upcoming Brexit deal with the UK could serve as a template for relations with other non-EU states, namely…

It’s getting colder and colder, the clock is ticking and regional authorities are scrambling to meet President Emmanuel Macron’s deadline: get migrants off France’s streets and out of forest…

The foreign ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan appealed to Taliban militants to join peace talks following a meeting Tuesday organized by China to mend strained relations between the two…

Peruvian police on Monday fired tear gas and clashed with protesters marching against the pardon of ailing ex-president Alberto Fujimori, who was serving a 25-year sentence for human rights…

Pope Francis used his Christmas message on Monday to call for a negotiated two-state solution to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, after US President Donald Trump stoked regional tensions…

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri arrived in the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh expecting to spend the day with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, but instead found himself manhandled by…

Nobody in their right mind would want to start a war on the Korean Peninsula, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, adding that Washington wants to strangle North Korea into submission.…

A suicide attacker detonated explosives Monday near major political offices in the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing at least 10 people, officials told CNN. The attack took place near an office…

Swiss President Doris Leuthard told a newspaper on Sunday that a national referendum on Switzerland’s relationship with the European Union would help clarify the country’s relationship with the…

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s bid to oust one of the country’s most powerful provincial governors has run into strong resistance that has deepened political uncertainty just as Washington…

The Palestinian foreign ministry has denounced a new Israeli settlement construction plan, which includes the building of 300,000 housing units in occupied East Beit-ul-Moqaddas (Jerusalem).

Turkey is working with Russia to evacuate around 500 people from the besieged Damascus suburb of East Ghouta, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday.

“There are around 500…

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz on Saturday said the EU should consider other ways to tackle the migration crisis and formally end “failed” attempts at redistributing migrants across the EU…

After facing international outrage and charges of ethnic cleansing, Myanmar made a pledge: Rohingya Muslims who fled the country by the hundreds of thousands would start their journey home…

Thousands of Russians on Sunday endorsed the candidacy of Alexei Navalny, seen as the only Russian opposition leader who stands a fighting chance of challenging strongman Vladimir Putin in a…

Thirty seven people were believed killed in a fire that engulfed a shopping mall in the southern Philippine city of Davao, local authorities said on Sunday. A bureau of fire protection commander…

The rise of the far right was a defining feature of European politics in 2017.

In December, the trend peaked with Austria becoming the only European country to bring the far right into…

The death toll from a tropical storm in the southern Philippines climbed swiftly to 133 on Saturday, as rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from a swollen river, police said.

Tropical Storm…

The Wall Street Journal has published a report suggesting that the Saudi government ordered Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, who is allegedly held in a luxurious Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, to pay…

French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed European reforms will play a big role in talks between German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives to form a government with the center-left…

Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday named the former army chief who led a coup that ended Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule, as one of his two deputies in the ruling party, the…