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An Ankara court has ordered a temporary broadcast ban on media coverage of the news related to the assassination of Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov.

According to judicial sources…

The Tu-154’s main flight data recorder was found at a depth of 17 meters, Russia’s Defense Ministry said.

The ministry added that five more fragments of the crashed plane have been located…

Dozens of politicians have split from South Korea’s ruling party over the corruption scandal involving impeached President Park Geun-hye.

Their move on Tuesday could shape presidential…

A powerful typhoon has killed at least four people in the Philippines before passing over the capital Manila.

Typhoon Nock-Ten, known locally as Nina, made landfall on the eastern island…

Residents of the Syrian city of Damascus faced their third consecutive day without water on Sunday after the city’s supply was poisoned.

Authorities cut off the capital city’s pipeline…

Turkish authorities have arrested the cafeteria manager of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper for insulting the president after he said he would not serve tea to Recep Tayyip Erdogan, one of the…

A group of Chinese warships led by the country’s sole aircraft carrier has passed through waters south of Taiwan and is heading southwest, Taiwan’s Defense Ministry said on Monday of what China…

Donald Trump has announced that he plans to shut his charitable foundation, although an investigation into its practices continues.

The US president-elect said he wanted to avoid “even the…

The idea that an investigation “funded by voluntary contributions” will be able to maintain impartiality instead of delivering the results desired by its sponsors is somewhat dubious, said Russia’…

At least 22 civilians were killed in Democratic Republic of Congo’s North Kivu Province over the weekend, an official said, blaming the attacks on an armed group led by Ugandan rebels.

The…

Nobody has survived in the Tu-154 plane crash after it vanished from radar screens at 05.40 a.m. Moscow time (0240 GMT), two minutes after taking off from the airport of Adler, Sochi, Major-…

A quake registered 7.7 on the Moment Magnitude scale, according to seismologists at the US Geological Survey, hit Chile. Chile’s national emergencies office ONEMI put it at 7.6. The epicenter of…

Tunisia's Parliament has been surrounded by hundreds of people, angry at the return of extremists who have fought abroad. The protest was prompted by the Berlin truck attack by Tunisian Anis Amri…

Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force caught sight of the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning passage in the East China Sea for the first time, local media reported on Sunday, citing the Defense…

A recently discovered WWII-era bomb has prompted a Christmas Day evacuation of 54,000 people in the German city of Augsburg.

Specialists are standing by to disable the device, Deutsche…

A Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red Army Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members, crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday, killing everyone…

The world is on high alert, as armed security forces patrol Christmas markets after four atrocities left 15 dead in one day.

Ankara, Berlin and Zurich have all been targeted in a series of…

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building.

The Saudi-led coalition used Brazil-made rockets containing banned cluster munitions when it targeted two schools in the northern Yemeni city of Saada earlier this month. According to the rights…

Tens of thousands of people were expected to gather in Seoul on Saturday for a ninth straight week to demand the ouster of impeached President Park Geun-Hye, organizers said.

Turkish authorities have detained seven people after the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, while Russia is sending more than a dozen investigators to join the inquiry.

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The US federal authorities cautioned local law enforcement on Friday to be aware that supporters of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group have been calling for their sympathizers to attack…

As Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies said the insurgents’ withdrawal from the city could pave the way toward a political solution for the country, some militants shelled Aleppo and…

The US president-elect, Donald Trump, upped the stakes on Friday in a back-and-forth exchange with President Vladimir Putin over nuclear weapons that tested the Republican’s promises to improve…

The headless body of a villager has been found days after he spoke to reporters on a rare government-guided media tour of restive northern Rakhine state, Myanmar police said on Friday.

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