International

Dozens of Palestinians have been injured during protests in various parts of the West Bank, occupied since 1967 by the Israeli Army, and near the security barrier that seals off the Gaza Strip.…

The German Parliament on Thursday night passed a controversial package of stricter rules for asylum seekers, including allowing immigration officials to analyze refugees’ cellphone data.

Brazil’s president is vowing to remain in power despite a damaging new corruption allegation, but Latin America’s largest nation could very well be rudderless as long as he stays at the head of…

Sweden is dropping its investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on rape allegations, according to a prosecution statement released on Friday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is calling for the removal of the US envoy, claiming he is sympathetic to Kurdish Syrians as the top congressional Republican demands swift action after…

Up to 200,000 more people could flee Mosul as Iraqi forces push into the last districts held by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, according to the UN.

Nearly 700,000 people…

A wrong-way driver plowed into pedestrians in the heart of Manhattan’s bustling Times Square district minutes before noon on Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring nearly two dozen…

China’s top diplomat, Yang Jiechi, told a visiting South Korean envoy on Friday that he hoped Seoul could respect Beijing’s major interests, concerns and differences over the THAAD missile system…

From Riyadh to Beit-ul-Muqaddas, Bethlehem, Rome, Brussels and Sicily, US President Donald Trump left a swirl of domestic woes behind on Friday to embark on a first foreign trip that will be…

Emerging from her crushing defeat in France’s presidential contest, Marine Le Pen said on Thursday she will run for a parliamentary seat in June elections and that her National Front party has “an…

Japan’s government has approved a one-off bill which, if passed, will allow Emperor Akihito to abdicate.

The 83-year-old emperor said last year that his age and health were making…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, said on Thursday that his passport was confiscated when he was at the airport outside Caracas for a flight to New York,…

Suicide bombers stormed the state TV station in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, triggering clashes that killed at least two people.

The attack was claimed by the self-…

As many as 100 people were killed last week in militia violence in southern Central African Republic, the United Nations said, expressing “grave alarm” over the spread of fighting fuelled by…

Two more people, including a teenager, have been shot dead during anti-government protests in Venezuela.

Yeison Mora Castillo, 17, was killed during demonstrations in central Barinas state…

Freshly elected French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are the new power couple leading the charge against anti-European populists and trying to put the struggling EU…

US President Donald Trump asked James Comey to end the investigation into former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, a request documented in a memo written by the former FBI director,…

Journalists and human rights activists protested in several cities on Tuesday, demanding the government catch the murderers of the veteran journalist Javier Valdez.

The 50-year-old reporter…

The Honduran government said on Tuesday it had moved 773 gang members to a maximum security prison, completing the relocation of some 2,000 highly dangerous inmates to prevent penitentiaries from…

US President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, stood side by side at the White House on Tuesday and promised to strengthen strained ties despite the Turkish leader’s…

South Korea says it wants to reestablish lines of communication with North Korea, as new President Moon Jae-in seeks a two-track policy involving sanctions and dialogue with its…

Chinese state media on Wednesday criticized the United States for hindering efforts to stop global cyber threats in the wake of the WannaCry “ransomware” attack that has infected more than 300,000…

A pair of car bombs has killed at least six people and wounded several others in Syria’s sprawling Rukban Refugee Camp near the border with Jordan, according to residents.

The first…

Turkish prosecutors ordered the arrest of 85 staff at the energy and education ministries under an investigation targeting the network of a US-based cleric whom Ankara accuses of orchestrating…

Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cardenas, who reported extensively on drug trafficking, was killed on Tuesday in Sinaloa, officials said. He is the fifth journalist to be killed in Mexico this…