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The wife of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has captured his parliamentary seat with a reduced majority in a by-election.

It is being seen as a test of support for the…

A storm packing powerful winds ripped off roofs and toppled trees in Romania on Sunday, killing eight people and injuring dozens more, officials and witnesses said. With gusts that reached…

Hundreds of Rohingya, including children, were jostling to get hold of aid packages being thrown from trucks at Balukhali in the Bangladeshi city of Cox’s Bazar bordering Myanmar.

Women…

Hundreds of police officers in full riot gear responded to the streets of downtown St. Louis after another day of peaceful demonstrations over a former police officer's acquittal in the death of…

More than 700 mayors from Catalonia gathered in Barcelona on Saturday in defiance of Spain’s central government to show their support for an independence referendum.

Tensions are heating…

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has “a last chance” to halt an army offensive that has forced hundreds of thousands of the mainly Muslim Rohingya to flee abroad, the UN head has said…

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi during his visit to the United States this week and discuss their concerns about northern Iraq’s independence…

Hamas has agreed to talks with the rival Fatah movement and expressed its willingness to hold general elections in the Palestinian territories.

The first far-right party set to enter Germany’s parliament for more than a half a century says it will press for Chancellor Angela Merkel to be “severely punished” for opening the door to…

Syrian troops seized a suburb of the eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Sunday, tightening the noose around the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, a Syrian military source said.

The…

A roadside bomb killed a senior tribal government administrator and five tribal police in Pakistan near the Afghan border on Sunday, officials said. Fawad Ali, the assistant administrator, was…

The Red Cross on Sunday condemned the killing of children in Yemen by apparent shelling, saying Friday’s attack in the city of Taiz was a reminder of the “immense suffering” endured by civilians…

Germany will have no choice but to restrict its economic ties with Turkey to pressure its NATO partner into releasing German citizens it imprisoned on political grounds, Chancellor Angela Merkel…

North Korea said on Saturday it aims to reach“equilibrium” of military force with the United States, which earlier signaled its patience for diplomacy is wearing thin after Pyongyang fired a…

The United States has sternly urged the semi-autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan to call off its independence referendum, saying the timing for the vote is not right.

Bangladesh again warned Myanmar on Friday of violating its airspace as violence has driven nearly 400,000 ethnic Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh over the past three weeks in what the UN has…

Icelandic Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson on Friday called a snap election after a junior coalition member quit the nine-month-old government.

The centrist Bright Future Party said…

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday urged the lifting of a Saudi-led embargo on Qatar in effect since June. Macron called for “the embargo measures affecting the people of Qatar, in…

Books will be written on the designs of the Saudi regime to reshape the greater Middle East. Entire chapters could be dedicated to the depth of United States and Israeli involvement and their…

Russia, Iran and Turkey have agreed on the boundaries of the final de-escalation zone in Idlib, Syria, the parties said in a joint statement. All four de-escalation zones in the war-torn country…

A home-made bomb on a packed rush-hour commuter train in London engulfed a carriage in flames and injured 22 people on Friday in what police said was Britain’s fifth terrorism incident this year…

When news broke of a possible breakthrough in an impasse that has pitted Qatar against its Arab neighbors for the past three months, one of Saudi Arabia’s most well-known clerics expressed his…

More than 80 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in two gun-and-car bomb attacks near the city of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq.

The attacks in the southern province of Thi Qar…

Catalan separatists have officially launched their campaign for an independence referendum. The region has also said it will stop sending financial accounts to Madrid to prove public funds aren’…

The death toll from Hurricane Irma was at 82 early on Friday as 1.5 million homes and businesses in Florida remained without power in sweltering heat, five days after the historic storm ripped…