The US military said on Friday a service member has been killed in Somalia during an operation against Al-Shabaab as US President Donald Trump’s administration steps up its fight against the Al-…
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French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's team blasted a "massive and coordinated hacking attack" against his campaign after a flood of internal documents were released online late Friday,…
InternationalThe Iraqi military has admitted bombing a disused school in western Mosul, but denied targeting civilians, saying the building was being used by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group as a…
InternationalNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited two military units near the maritime border with the South on its western coast, according to state media on Friday.
The visit marks the first…
InternationalPeru’s national prosecutor’s office said on Friday it has opened an into allegations of “crimes against humanity” related to the military’s fight against leftist guerrillas in the 1990s, in a case…
InternationalIndonesian authorities are searching for scores of inmates who have escaped from an overcrowded prison on Sumatra Island.
Hundreds of police and soldiers were deployed near Sialang Bungkuk…
InternationalA former anti-government student leader, Moon Jae-in, stands poised to succeed ousted leader Park Geun-hye, the daughter of the slain South Korean dictator who jailed him in the 1970s.
Moon…
InternationalA Turkish court on Friday rejected an appeal by the Wikimedia Foundation against the nearly weeklong blocking of access in Turkey to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, state media said.
The…
InternationalNorth Korea on Friday accused the US Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea's intelligence service of a plot to attack its "supreme leadership" with a bio-chemical weapon and said such a "…
InternationalIraqi forces moved further into Mosul from the north on the second day of a new push to speed up the nearly seven-month attempt to dislodge the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group,…
InternationalSomalia’s security forces have shot dead a 31-year-old government minister after mistaking him for a militant, officials have said.
He was killed in his vehicle near the presidential palace…
InternationalAt least five civilians have been killed and dozens others, including paramilitary personnel, wounded after coming under fire from Afghan forces while conducting a population census near the…
InternationalAlgerian voters looked set to hand the ruling FLN and its allies another five-year mandate in a parliamentary election on Thursday overshadowed by low oil prices and concerns over the health of…
InternationalColombia’s government is blaming a dissident rebel group for the kidnapping of a United Nations employee that is marring a visit by the UN Security Council to the South American nation. A top aide…
InternationalEight Latin American nations have denounced what they call “excessive use of force” by Venezuelan authorities.
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and…
InternationalPro-European Emmanuel Macron and far-right anti-immigration candidate, Marine Le Pen, have offered starkly different visions for France during a campaign that has been closely watched in Europe…
InternationalThe head of the United Nations atomic agency expressed serious concerns about the nuclear program of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, saying all indications suggest that the country is…
InternationalHours after scoring a victory in the House to effectively kill Obamacare, US President Donald Trump praised Australia’s universal healthcare system during a press conference with Prime Minister…
InternationalA powerful blast targeting an armored NATO convoy in Kabul killed at least eight people and wounded 25 on Wednesday, including three coalition soldiers, officials said days after the Taliban…
InternationalVenezuela's angry opposition is set to hold a huge protest rally on Wednesday against unpopular President Nicolas Maduro's proposal to rewrite the constitution, dismissing it as a ploy to avoid…
InternationalThe head of Libya’s UN-backed, Tripoli-based government met on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi, the UAE, with the commander of forces loyal to Libya’s Tobruk-based parliament.
According to media…
InternationalUS President Donald Trump, in a series of late night tweets on Tuesday, both revisited his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton and seemingly slammed the judgment of his own FBI director.
InternationalSatellite images indicate activity has resumed at North Korea’s nuclear test site, US-based analysts said on Tuesday, as tensions remain high over fears of a sixth atomic test by the reclusive…
InternationalBrazilian Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes considers the decision of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to call the constitutional assembly amid the massive protests in the country as a coup.
InternationalThe results of France’s April 23 first round closely reflected what the polls had predicted: Macron and Le Pen both advanced to the final round with 24% and 21.3% of the vote, respectively.
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