International

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has extended a ceasefire with FARC rebels until the end of the year to give more time to save a peace deal. The accord, signed with the leftwing rebel group…

A passenger train derailed near New York, injuring dozens of people, US officials say.

The incident occurred at New Hyde Park in Nassau County. The injuries are not said to be life-…

A California SWAT team has surrounded a house where a gunman allegedly shot and killed two police officers, and wounded a third, on Saturday while responding to a domestic dispute call. The…

Rival resolutions on Syria backed by the West and Russia were defeated in the UN Security Council on Saturday, offering no relief to the besieged city of Aleppo and leaving the key powers even…

Hungary’s biggest opposition newspaper has been suspended, its owner company said, citing financial losses. Government opponents have rejected the explanation and called for a street rally to…

More senior Republicans have withdrawn support for US presidential candidate, Donald Trump, after his obscene remarks about women became public. At least a dozen Republicans have said they will…

Police have found explosives in an apartment in the German city of Chemnitz and arrested three people over an alleged terror plot.

The main suspect, 22-year-old Syrian Jaber A., is still on…

Georgians voted in parliamentary elections that have sparked fears of political instability in the former Soviet state.

Georgia’s election commission said the ruling party is ahead but many…

Washington has ordered an “immediate review” of its support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen after a strike on a funeral in the capital killed more than 140 people. The UN is pushing for an…

Thirty-one self-styled Islamic State militants have been killed in clashes and US-led coalition airstrikes in northern Syria over the last 24 hours, the Turkish military said on Sunday, marking an…

Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 5 percentage points among likely voters, roughly the same advantage she has held over the past several…

WikiLeaks has released excerpts from closed-door paid speeches Hillary Clinton gave to Wall Street for the first time on Friday, in the latest leak to hit the US election. It posted what it…

US President Barack Obama has formally removed sanctions on the former military-ruled state of Myanmar. The decision follows a visit to Washington last month by the country’s de facto leader Aung…

Senior Republicans have condemned obscene comments Donald Trump made about women in a 2005 videotape. In the video, posted by the Washington Post, Trump is heard telling TV host Billy Bush “…

Morocco’s governing Justice and Development Party (PJD) has won the country’s parliamentary election.

With 90% of the votes counted, it has taken 99 seats, putting them ahead of their rival…

Hurricane Matthew killed almost 900 people and left tens of thousands homeless in Haiti earlier this week before plowing northward on Saturday over waters just off the US southeast, where it…

Two suicide bombers refused to surrender during a police operation in the outskirts of the capital Ankara on Saturday and blew themselves up, a senior official said. No one else was hurt in the…

Unknown assailants have opened fire on security forces guarding a camp for Malians fleeing militants in their own country.

Niger is beset by extremists flowing over its borders from several…

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said he could cut as many as 70% of federal US regulations if he is elected.

Trump, who was speaking at an event in New Hampshire,…

Despite objections from religious hardliners, lawmakers on Thursday took the first significant move to curb mounting numbers of "honor" killings in Pakistan, stiffening the penalties and closing a…

The United Nations Security Council on Thursday unanimously nominated former Portuguese prime minister, Antonio Guterres, to be the next secretary-general, recommending that the 193-member General…

Venezuela’s opposition leader says he is confident he will be able to force President Nicolas Maduro to step down. Henrique Capriles told the BBC that 80% of the population wanted change and he…

Matthew, the first major hurricane threatening a direct hit on the United States in more than 10 years, lashed Florida on Friday with heavy rains and winds after killing at least 339 people in…

One of Spain’s richest regions, Catalonia has repeatedly fought Madrid over its right to secede. Regional President Carles Puigdemont has vowed to proceed with the referendum even without Spain’s…

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a surprise choice after Colombians voted “No” to an agreement he signed with Marxist rebels to end 52 years of…