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Fifteen people drowned when a fishing boat carrying migrants sank off the Turkish coast in the Marmara Sea on Friday and up to 15 more were missing, Turkey’s coast guard said. The boat sank off…

The UN Security Council on Thursday warned that a referendum on independence by Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government was potentially destabilizing, adding its weight to international opposition to…

Bangladesh’s prime minister has accused Myanmar of ethnic cleansing of its Rohingya people and urged the country to allow the return of “hungry, distressed and hopeless” refugees.

Sheikh…

Saudi Arabia is “not an ally of the united States,” according to Bernie Sanders, the independent senator and former Democratic presidential hopeful.

Sanders broke with the bipartisan…

On Sunday, France will elect nearly half its senate, in a vote that is expected to illustrate the slide in President Emmanuel Macron’s popularity since his election earlier this year.

Police, firefighters and ordinary Mexicans dug frantically through the rubble of collapsed schools, homes and apartment buildings early Wednesday, looking for survivors of Mexico's deadliest…

Spanish police raided Catalan government offices and arrested officials on Wednesday to halt a referendum on independence, an action the regional president said meant Madrid had effectively…

Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has said that a group of Arab countries imposing an “unjust blockade” on Qatar are seeking to destabilize a sovereign state.

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan threatened to impose sanctions against Kurdish northern Iraq over a planned independence vote, piling economic pressure on Kurdish authorities after Turkish…

Nations on Wednesday began signing the first treaty to ban nuclear weapons, a pact backed by over 100 countries but spurned by those with nuclear arms.

The UN treaty office said 51…

The battle for the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group’s de-facto Syria capital, Raqqa, has reached its “final stages,” the US-backed force leading the assault said Wednesday. The Syrian…

US President Donald Trump’s controversial United Nations speech—in which he threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea and described the Iran 2015 nuclear deal as “one-sided and an…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed on Tuesday for statesmanship to avoid war with North Korea and criticized world leaders stoking resentment over refugees for political…

Embattled  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday baffled world leaders with a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly and singled out China, North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela…

Police deployed overnight in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk to prevent any outbreak of ethnic violence ahead of a referendum on Kurdish independence strongly opposed by the Baghdad…

Brazilian President Michel Temer criticized a rise in nationalism around the world and said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday that protectionism was not the solution…

Germany’s center-left Social Democrats (SPD) slightly narrowed their gap with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in a poll published on Tuesday five days before a federal election.

Washington and Seoul have “discussed the option” of putting nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, according to US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who said there are “many military options…

British companies selling weapons have earned hundreds of millions of dollars by selling arms to Saudi Arabia during the ongoing war in Yemen, a report says.

UN human rights investigators on Tuesday said they needed “full and unfettered” access to Myanmar to investigate a grave and ongoing crisis, but the government renewed its rejection of the probe…

An Afghan official says the Taliban have killed three government employees abducted last month in western Herat province. Gelani Farhad, spokesman for the provincial governor in Herat, says the…

The Turkish army kicked off a military drill near the border with Iraq’s Kurdish region, underscoring Turkey’s threat to do whatever it deems necessary against an Iraqi Kurdish independence…

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Monday he had formally demanded the Kurdistan region suspend an independence referendum that regional neighbors and Western powers fear could…

The US military staged bombing drills with South Korea over the Korean peninsula and Russia and China began naval exercises ahead of a UN General Assembly meeting on Tuesday where North Korea’s…

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s decision to bar Saudi Arabia from his party’s annual conference next week suggests he would not be afraid to cut military and diplomatic ties with the oil kingdom…