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President-elect Donald Trump says that “no computer is safe” when it comes to keeping information private, expressing new skepticism about the security of online communications his administration…

Burundi’s environment minister was shot dead in the capital Bujumbura early Sunday, police said, the first assassination of its kind since the country plunged into political turmoil in 2015.…

The UN has approved a Russia-drafted resolution supporting a shaky but functioning ceasefire in Syria.

The measure calls for immediate and speedy access for humanitarian workers to the…

President Joseph Kabila will be unable to change the country’s constitution to extend his mandate for a third term. He will step down after elections are held in 2017.

These are the major…

At least five people have been confirmed dead after a fire broke out on a large boat carrying tourists to islands north of the Indonesian capital, while more than a dozen others remain missing and…

The US president-elect Donald Trump on Friday praised Russian President Vladimir Putin for refraining from retaliation in a dispute over spying and cyber attacks, in another sign that the…

UN Security Council will hold a meeting behind closed doors on Saturday and vote on the draft resolution proposed by Russia in support of ceasefire in Syria, the Russian Permanent Mission to UN…

A pair of bomb blasts targeting a market in central Baghdad on Saturday killed at least 28 people and wounded at least 54, according to police and medical officials. The attacks took place early…

Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Germans on Saturday to hold firm to democratic values in the face of terrorism, urging them to counter “murderers who are full of hate” with compassion and…

Police in Brazil believe that Greece’s ambassador to the country was killed by his wife’s lover under her orders in a house in the Rio area and have detained three suspects, authorities said on…

More than a dozen Nobel laureates have criticized Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi for failing to uphold the human rights of Rohingya Muslims in the country’s Rakhine State, calling for immediate…

Iraqi security forces on Thursday resumed an offensive to rid eastern Mosul from the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group after a two-week pause, an Iraqi Army official said.

Dozens of child asylum seekers formerly from the jungle camp in Calais have launched a legal challenge to UK’s Home Secretary Amber Rudd.

Lawyers say 28 of them want written reasons for the…

At least six workers have been killed in a coal mine accident in eastern India and police said on Friday 17 others could be trapped in the mine.

A nationwide ceasefire in Syria, brokered by Russia and Turkey that back opposing sides in the conflict, appeared to hold early on Friday after a shaky start during the night in the latest attempt…

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he would not eject the US diplomats.

The Foreign Ministry in Moscow on Friday announced its recommendation for taking retaliatory measures…

Hong Kong on Friday confirmed its second human case of bird flu this season, days after an elderly man died of the virus. A 70-year-old man, who had travelled to the Chinese cities of Shenzhen and…

The UN Security Council’s draft resolution envisaging Syria-related sanctions that France and Britain have co-authored is categorically unacceptable, because its ultimate aim is to put political…

Christmas market attack suspect Anis Amri visited 15 mosques in Germany and had contact with two men with ties to the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, according to a media report.

Former Argentine president, Cristina Fernandez, was indicted on Tuesday in a corruption case involving public works.

Federal Judge Julian Ercolini approved charges of illicit association…

Government officials in Kabul have reacted with dismay to a trilateral meeting in Moscow involving Pakistan, China and Russia to discuss the situation in Afghanistan.

Turkey and Russia have separately accused the US of backing terrorist groups in Syria, on the same day they agreed to push for talks in Kazakhstan next month over the conflict.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday it would take three months to remove the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group from Iraq, as US-backed forces battle to dislodge the militants…

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has rejected the prime ministerial candidate nominated by the left-of-center Social Democrats (PSD). Sevil Shhaideh would have been Romania’s first female and…

Syrian Armed Forces killed more than 25 terrorists belonging to the self-styled Islamic State militant group west of Palmyra in Homs on Monday.

A military source also told SANA that this…