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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe swept to a resounding victory in a snap election on Sunday, winning a mandate to harden his already hawkish stance on North Korea and reenergize the world's…

A suicide attacker detonated a car full of explosives on Saturday outside Afghanistan’s top military training center in Kabul, killing at least 15 soldiers, a military spokesman said.

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The Spanish government decided on Saturday to sack the secessionist leadership of Catalonia and force the region into a new election, saying it had to take the unprecedented step to prevent the…

The World Health Organization (WHO) should overturn its decision to appoint of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador, global health leaders said on Saturday, describing the…

At least 54 Egyptian police officers were killed in an ambush by militants near the Bahariya oasis in the country’s Western Desert, security and medical sources said Saturday, in a rare flare-up…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in the capital as Afghan officials on Saturday raised the number of casualties from…

Nearly 450,000 Rohingya refugee children are in urgent need of assistance and the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Myanmar continues to become more dire, according to a new report from the…

Japanese voters will head to the polls today (Sunday)  for snap general elections, a year ahead of schedule.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe dissolved the lower house of parliament and…

The Spanish government has secured opposition support for dissolving Catalonia’s Parliament and holding new elections there in January in its bid to defuse the regional government’s push for…

What the Syrian Kurds are actually calling for is the federalization of the whole state, says Shahoz Hasan, recently elected as co-chair of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).

President Vladimir Putin launched one of his most stinging critiques of US foreign policy on Thursday, listing what he called some of the biggest betrayals in US-Russia relations.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday begins the first full round of talks on forming a three-way “Jamaica” coalition that she needs to work or else risk her time in power coming to an end…

On the eve of a weeklong trip to the Middle East, South Asia and Europe, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke with two US news outlets, directing tough rhetoric toward China and setting low…

European Union leaders sought to minimize Spain’s crisis with Catalonia on Thursday and avoid encouraging separatists across the bloc, describing Barcelona’s secession bid as a domestic issue…

Turkish authorities have issued arrest warrants for 110 people connected to a seized company over alleged links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says orchestrated last year’s…

Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday called on the government to protect the Kurdish population in northern Iraq.

Sistani’s call, issued at the Friday prayer…

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday laid out a confident vision for a more prosperous nation and its role in the world, stressing the importance of wiping out corruption and curbing…

In a report published on Wednesday, human rights group Amnesty International said Myanmar's security forces had surrounded villages, shot fleeing inhabitants, set buildings alight and burned to…

The chief of MI5, the United Kingdom’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency, has warned that terror attacks will show no sign of abating in the UK in the immediate future.

Rep. Frederica Wilson blasted President Trump on Wednesday, calling him a "sick man" after he accused the Florida Democrat of fabricating her claim that he made an insensitive remark to the wife…

A chastened Angela Merkel warned her conservatives they must compromise to forge a nationally untested alliance in Germany as she heads into talks with other parties on Wednesday after suffering…

Qatar has accused Saudi Arabia of trying to engineer "regime change" during its four-month blockade of its neighbor.

Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani told CNBC…

Kurdish Peshmerga forces have retreated to positions they held in northern Iraq in June 2014 in response to an Iraqi army advance into the region after a Kurdish independence referendum rejected…

An explosion ripped through a police truck on Wednesday killing at least seven people in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, police said. The attack claimed by Pakistani Taliban killed five…

The Baghdad government recaptured territory across the breadth of northern Iraq from Kurds on Tuesday, widening a sudden and dramatic campaign that has shifted the balance of power in the…