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Merkel is sending her top security adviser to meet Trump's team in New York, according to a media report.

The German government is reportedly worried about unclear foreign policy stances.…

Syrian state television reported on Sunday that there was a deal between the government and militants to evacuate people from east Aleppo in return for the evacuation of people from al-Foua and…

A Hercules C-130 aircraft belonging to the Air Force crashed after hitting Mount Pugima in Kampung Minimo, Maima District, Jayawijaya, Papua, on Sunday morning. All 13 passengers onboard were…

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev has supported the idea of holding intra-Syrian peace talks in Kazakhstan’s capital of Astana in his phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir…

Bolivian President Evo Morales on Saturday agreed with the ruling party proposal to run for the president again, for the fourth time, in 2019. “If the people say that they would go for the…

China will return an underwater US drone seized by a naval vessel this week in the South China Sea, both countries said on Saturday, but Beijing complained that Washington had been “hyping up” the…

Syrian authorities have handed over a batch of documents with the evidence of banned chemical agent used by militants against civilians near Aleppo to the international chemical watchdog.

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Talks in Democratic Republic of Congo between the ruling coalition and the opposition have failed to reach a compromise on the political future of President Joseph Kabila who intends to stay in…

Supporters of South Korean President Pak Geun-hye rallied on Saturday for her reinstatement while opponents gathered to repeat their demands that the leader impeached over a corruption scandal…

Russia’s engagement in the Syrian crisis prevented militants from gaining control over Damascus, cut down their military and economic base and helped win back some captured Syrian territories,…

The US intelligence community will soon disclose an estimate of the number of Americans whose electronic communications have been caught in the crosshairs of online surveillance programs intended…

The Swiss Parliament has approved a law aiming to curb immigration by giving priority to local workers at open jobs.

The law stops short of imposing quotas as Swiss voters demanded in a…

A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in South China Sea, triggering a formal diplomatic protest from the US…

Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the country. The women were in a van driving to the…

US President Barack Obama said on Friday it was fine for president-elect, Donald Trump, to review Washington’s “one-China” policy toward Taiwan, but he cautioned that a shift could lead to…

Dozens of Polish MPs protested in parliament on Friday over plans to restrict journalists’ right to cover proceedings, as thousands of demonstrators marched outside in support of the lawmakers.

A Pakistani school bus driver was killed and several children were wounded in Indian firing along the de facto Kashmir border, Pakistan said.

The incident occurred at Mohra Village in the…

Thirteen Turkish soldiers were killed and dozens more wounded in a car bombing targeting off-duty conscripts being taken by bus on a weekend shopping trip, the latest in a string of attacks to…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the situation in eastern Aleppo may be resolved in two to three days.

The Russian Reconciliation Center reported earlier that about 6,000…

Thomas C. Schelling, an economist and Nobel laureate whose interest in game theory led him to write important works on nuclear strategy and to use the concept of the tipping point to explain…

South Korean MPs are holding a hearing to investigate why impeached President Park Geun-hye went “missing” during a major ferry disaster in 2014—the latest trouble to hit the pressured leader.…

Near complete results in Macedonia’s early general elections show that the country’s conservative coalition has gained a slim victory over its Social Democratic rivals, but with neither party…

Gambia’s security forces have entered the building of the Independent Electoral Commission, instructed its chairman to leave and barred other employees from entering, according to the commission…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has claimed on Tuesday a suicide bombing two days ago at Cairo’s main Coptic cathedral and threatened more attacks against Christians.

The…

The center-right European People’s Party nominated Italian Antonio Tajani as its candidate for head of the European Parliament to succeed German Socialist Martin Schulz, who said he will step down…