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Romania could have its first female prime minister, an economist who is a member of the country's small Muslim community.

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said on Thursday he would appoint…

Turkey’s authorities detained in Istanbul on Friday Deputy Parliament Speaker Pervin Buldan who is a member of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party.

Buldan has confirmed the detention…

It was not clear what prompted Thursday's tweet by Trump, who takes office on January 20, but it came the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country needed to boost its nuclear…

The Syrian Army has regained control over all of Aleppo and has returned “security and stability to the city”, the army's general command said. The Red Cross has also confirmed that a complex…

The Berlin Christmas market truck attacker was killed in a pre-dawn shootout with police in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan on Friday, Italy's interior minister said.

Two hijackers of a Libyan aircraft with 118 people on board surrendered to authorities on the island of Malta hours after claiming to have hand grenades and threatening to blow the plane up unless…

A gunman who shot three worshippers in a Zurich mosque on Monday evening was a 24-year-old Swiss man with Ghanaian roots and no apparent links to terrorist groups, police said on Tuesday. The…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry have proven that bilateral relationship can be effective in many areas, outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki…

The Association of South-East Asian Nations is set to continue its dialogue with Beijing through the existing formats with a view to helping resolve the South China Sea dispute.

A massive explosion gutted Mexico’s biggest fireworks market, killing at least 31 people and injuring 72, the authorities said.

The conflagration in the Mexico City suburb of Tultepec set…

The Brussels prosecutor’s office has confirmed that a large security operation, which put the Schaerbeek area of the city on lockdown on Monday, was an anti-terrorist operation in which one person…

Indonesian anti-terrorism police killed three suspects after a gunfight on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, on Wednesday and foiled a suicide bomb plot, a police spokesman said.

German police on Wednesday stepped up their hunt for the driver of a truck that rampaged through a Berlin Christmas market, in a deadly assault claimed by the so-called Islamic State terrorist…

Darayya has been fully liberated by the Syrian government’s forces and Russian journalists were allowed to visit the area for the first time.

Militants have leveled buildings and religious…

Japan’s top court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a government plan to relocate a US military base on the island of Okinawa, dealing a blow to islanders’ efforts to get rid of the base altogether.

Cluster bombs made in the UK have been used in the conflict in Yemen, the government has confirmed.

British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said Saudi Arabia had confirmed munitions bought…

Choi Soon-sil, the jailed confidante of impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye denied on the first day of her trial on Monday that she used her ties to Park to extort money from big…

Jordanian security forces said they killed four “terrorist outlaws” after flushing them out of a castle in the southern city of Karak where they had holed up after a shootout that killed nine…

President-elect Donald Trump has received a majority in the US Electoral College, as votes from Texas electors put him over the 270 threshold. Monday’s result confirmed as expected Trump’s…

A man burst into a Muslim prayer hall in the Swiss city of Zurich on Monday and started shooting, injuring three men, according to police, who have launched a manhunt for the shooter.

Turkish police detained six people over the killing of the Russian ambassador, state media said on Tuesday, widening a probe to relatives of the off-duty policeman who shouted “Don’t forget Aleppo…

A lorry ploughed into a busy Christmas market in Berlin on Monday, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more in what police said was a suspected terror attack.

Lebanon acquired a new 30-minister government led by Saad al-Hariri, bringing together the entire political spectrum except for the Christian Phalangist party that rejected the portfolio it was…

An ambassadorial meeting of the Russia-NATO Council, the third meeting this year, has begun in Brussels.

According to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, the parties will discuss a…

The US Electoral College is expected on Monday to officially select Donald Trump as the next president in a vote that is usually routine, but takes place this year amid allegations of Russian…