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Spain’s chief public prosecutor on Monday refused to rule out ordering the arrest of Catalonia’s president as Spanish authorities continued a crackdown against an independence referendum in the…

The US wants a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday, as China warned there would be "no winners" in a war on the Korean peninsula.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Iraqi Kurds would go hungry if his country halts the flow of trucks and oil across the border with northern Iraq and warned that all military and economic…

A Palestinian gunman on Tuesday killed three Israeli security men and critically wounded a fourth outside an occupied West Bank settlement before being shot dead. Israeli officials said the…

Iraqi Kurds cast ballots on Monday in their autonomous region and in a wide sweep of captured territories on whether to seek independence from Baghdad, a historic vote that has also raised…

Weakened by the worst result for her party since 1949 and facing a more fractious political landscape at home, Germany’s Angela Merkel could be forced to rein in plans to re-shape Europe…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Monday he will call a snap election for parliament’s more powerful lower house for next month.

Abe said at a news conference that he will…

China on Monday called for all sides in the North Korea missile crisis to show restraint and not “add oil to the flames” amid an exchange of increasingly bellicose rhetoric between US President…

Turkey, Russia and Iran are working on setting up a new de-escalation zone in Syria’s Afrin, the Anadolu news agency quoted Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim as saying on Monday.

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The photographs that the Russian Defense Ministry published on Sunday on its Facebook page provide compelling evidence that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and US troops that support them are…

French President Emmanuel Macron’s La Republique en marche (LREM) party suffered a setback in senate elections on Sunday as the conservative Les Republicains strengthened their hold on the upper…

Some 43 Taliban militants, including a top commander, have been killed in US air raids in the northern Afghan province of Faryab bordering Uzbekistan, officials said on Sunday. Gen.

US President Donald Trump is embracing an “us versus them” conflict involving politics, patriotism and popular American pastimes. And there is an unmistakable racial element at play, since he is…

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud will travel to Russia before the end of the year, Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Tuesday after talks with Prince Mohammed bin Salman,…

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives beat their rivals on Sunday to win her a fourth term in an election that will also bring a far-right party into Germany’s parliament for the first time…

North Korea said on Saturday targeting the US mainland with its rockets was inevitable after “Mr. Evil President” Donald Trump called Pyongyang’s leader “rocket man”, further escalating rhetoric…

At least three civilians were wounded when a suicide car bomb targeted a convoy of foreign forces in Kabul. A NATO team arrived at the scene of the blast. A car bomber attacked a Danish convoy…

Hundreds demonstrated in eastern Iraq against a planned referendum on the secession of northern Iraq’s Kurdish region, which neighboring countries and western powers fear could break up the…

Doctors treating some of the 429,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar in recent weeks have seen dozens of women with injuries consistent with violent sexual attacks, UN…

Turkey said on Saturday it would take security and other steps in response to a planned independence referendum in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region that it called a “terrible mistake”, as a…

Tens of thousands of demonstrators rallied to a call Saturday by firebrand leftist politician Jean-Luc Melenchon to join a protest in Paris against President Emmanuel Macron's sweeping reforms…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged supporters on Saturday to keep fighting for votes with Alternative for Germany (AfD) emerging as the first far-right party to enter parliament since the end…

German gun manufacturer Heckler & Koch vowed to stop selling weapons to “crisis regions of this world,” ending the sale of their weapons in several countries in Africa and the Middle East —…

Russia warned the United States on Thursday it would target US-backed militias in Syria if Russian troops again came under fire, as the United States disclosed an unusual face-to-face meeting…

North Korea said on Friday it might test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean after US President Donald Trump vowed to destroy the reclusive country, with leader Kim Jong Un promising to make…