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A car plowed into a crowd in the southern German city of Heidelberg on Saturday, killing one person and injuring two others, police said. The driver was shot and arrested.

A series of suicide attacks on military installations in Syria's government-held city of Homs have killed at least 32 people, including the army's intelligence chief-a close confidante of…

French President Francois Hollande hit back at Donald Trump with a dig about gun control on Saturday, after the new US president attacked France’s immigration policies and Paris.

More than 1,000 people took to the streets of Manila on Saturday to protest Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs, following the arrest of his most high-profile critic.

Turkey may seek to reinstate death penalty, as there is public demand for it, the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.

He added that the government has been seeking to…

Malaysia said on Saturday it would issue an arrest warrant for a North Korean diplomat wanted for questioning over the murder of Kim Jong-nam if he doesn’t voluntarily cooperate with the police.…

The German Intelligence Agency (BND) has spied on journalists from the BBC and The New York Times. 

Press rights watchdogs have criticized the latest revelations of foul play at the…

Prosecutors announced on Friday that an official probe had been opened into claims that presidential candidate Francois Fillon paid his wife hundreds of thousands of euros to serve as his…

Analysts at the US Department of Homeland Security’s intelligence arm found insufficient evidence that citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban…

Iraqi forces on Friday entered west Mosul neighborhoods, a key stronghold in the shrinking “caliphate” of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, which replied with deadly suicide attacks…

The White House has blocked a number of news outlets from covering a question-and-answer session with spokesman Sean Spicer held in place of the daily press briefing.

Media organizations,…

Iraqi forces on Thursday thrust into Mosul airport on the southern edge of the militant stronghold for the first time since the self-styled Islamic State group overran the region in 2014.

French police detained far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s bodyguard and chief of staff in custody on Wednesday for questioning over alleged misuse of European Union funds to pay…

Former Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for misconduct.

Tsang led Hong Kong from 2005 to 2012 and is the most senior official in the territory ever to…

Somalia’s new President Mohamed Abdullahi has been inaugurated in the capital Mogadishu, promising to restore dignity to the troubled Horn of Africa nation but warning it will take another two…

A South African court on Wednesday ruled that the government’s plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court was “unconstitutional and invalid”, providing a boost to the embattled Hague-…

Ecuador’s presidential election will go to an April runoff between leftist government candidate Lenin Moreno and ex-banker Guillermo Lasso, the electoral body said on Tuesday, after a close first…

Detectives probing the assassination of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother want to question a North Korean diplomat, Malaysia’s top policeman said on Wednesday.

Investigators have put five North…

Germany has announced plans to increase its army by 5,000 troops, with 500 extra reserves and 1,000 civilian posts, aiming to have a total manpower of 198,000 by 2024.

The announcement was…

French police on Tuesday arrested three men suspected of planning a terror attack in raids in the Paris area, Marseille and the central city of Clermont-Ferrand, legal sources said. In Clermont-…

The Nigerian insurgent group Boko Haram recruited 2,000 children to fight in 2016, a United Nations report released on Tuesday said.

The data were part of a report indicating that at least…

Toxic fear-mongering by anti-establishment politicians, among them US President Donald Trump and the leaders of Turkey, Hungary and the Philippines, is contributing to a global pushback against…

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged expats in London to bring their talents home to France, following a meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May.

Millions of people living in the United States illegally could be targeted for deportation, including people simply arrested for traffic violations, under a sweeping rewrite of immigration…

French President Francois Hollande said on Monday there would be a summit in Versailles with the leaders of Germany, Italy and Spain on March 6 to prepare reforms for the European Union ahead of…