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A massive influx of Rohingya refugees fleeing recent violence in Myanmar has pushed aid services in Bangladesh to the brink, with established camps already beyond capacity, aid workers said…

In a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister, UK Prime Minister Theresa May is said to have called for the country to end its involvement in the Yemeni civil war, and comply with…

A surge in attacks by Boko Haram fighters has claimed nearly 400 lives since April in Nigeria and Cameroon, double the figure of the previous five months, according to a rights group.

Novartis CEO Joe Jimenez will step down on Feb. 1 and hand over to drug development chief Vas Narasimhan to decide the fate of $50 billion in assets and make good on a pledge to return the Swiss…

Tens of thousands of Rohingya are fleeing for their lives as the Myanmar  military engages in a scorched earth policy against Rohingya civilians. The  Burmese Rohingya Organization UK…

East Libyan forces said they had launched airstrikes on the self-styled Islamic State terrorist fighters after the militants made incursions south and east of their former coastal stronghold of…

The BRICS group of five major emerging economies called Monday for comprehensive reform of the United Nations and its Security Council to better represent developing countries, as it held a…

North Korea could be preparing another missile launch, Seoul said Monday as it strengthened its defenses following Pyongyang’s biggest-ever nuclear test and declaration it had a hydrogen bomb.…

Syria’s army and its allies have advanced towards Deir Az Zor, a city held by self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, after capturing the al-Kharata oil field, a war monitor said on Sunday.…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel traded blows with her election rival, Martin Schulz, in a live TV debate Sunday night, three weeks before the country's federal election.

The pair sparred…

Extensive damage left by Hurricane Harvey in Texas is estimated at between $150 billion to $180 billion, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday, which could be more than 20 times bigger than…

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Sunday that his coalition will not share power, two days after the supreme court annulled last month’s presidential election and ordered a new poll…

Russia on Sunday demanded the US rethink its shuttering of Moscow’s diplomatic premises, insisting Washington bore sole responsibility for worsening ties after the “hostile act”.

“We…

Al Shabaab militants attacked a military base near Somalia’s southern port city of Kismayu early on Sunday, a Somali army officer said, adding that he did not immediately have details of any…

Pope Francis travels to Colombia this week to encourage a fledgling peace process that ended half a century of war between a succession of governments and the guerrilla group FARC but has left…

Central Frankfurt looked like a ghost town Sunday after tens of thousands of people were evacuated ahead of a bomb disposal operation in the German city.

Around 60,000 people have been…

North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test on Sunday, which it said was an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile, marking a dramatic escalation of the regime’s…

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend this month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York, Russian news wire quoted his spokesman as saying on Saturday. US President Donald Trump…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a looming humanitarian catastrophe in western Myanmar after the killing of nearly 400 people —mostly Rohingya Muslims— in the worst outbreak…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says it may be time to rethink relations with Turkey, after two more German citizens were detained there.

On Friday, the German Foreign Ministry said they…

The Syrian army and its allies were fighting on Saturday in the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group’s last pocket in central Syria after taking the heavily defended village of Uqairabat on…

Suicide bombers attacked a state-run power station north of Baghdad early on Saturday, killing seven people and forcing the facility to shut down, police and army sources said. At least three…

The UN Security Council should present a diplomatic framework within which the concerned parties could negotiate a solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis, Russian Ambassador to the United…

The Saudi town of Awamiya now exists in name only. Last month, days before an assault on its Shia inhabitants by the US-backed Saudi regime, the UN designated it a place of unique cultural and…

The United States on Thursday ordered Russia to close its consulate in San Francisco and two other installations in two days, a move Moscow greeted with “regret,” as relations between the…