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A top official in Yemen’s armed Houthi movement on Sunday offered to stop attacks on Saudi Arabia and an amnesty for Yemeni fighters opposing the group, if the kingdom stopped airstrikes and…

A Roman Catholic priest who was kidnapped in western Mexico a week ago has been found shot dead. The body of Jose Alfredo Lopez Guillen was found late on Saturday near the town of Puruandiro in…

World powers verbally sparred at an emergency UN Security Council meeting on Syria on Sunday, exchanging blame as a decisive battle for Aleppo unleashed a humanitarian crisis.

A United Nations rights rapporteur said on Monday she intended to visit the Philippines to investigate President Rodrigo Duterte’s deadly war on crime, but was seeking security guarantees for…

A clear majority of Swiss voters have agreed to an overhaul of the confederation’s spying powers. Opponents have voiced concern that the measures could endanger the country’s dearly-held…

The embattled Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has posted a video saying he was alive and well, weeks after officials stated he was seriously wounded.

Swiss voters are casting ballots to decide whether to grant new powers to Switzerland's intelligence services, such as tracking Internet activity, snooping on email boxes and tapping phones to…

Around 15,000 people gathered in Helsinki to protest against racism and violent rightwing extremism. The protests were sparked by the death of a man who was reportedly attacked by a neo-Nazi group…

Authorities say they are still working to determine what prompted the suspect to open fire in a Washington state mall.

Police report the assailant said nothing, but was “zombie-like” during…

Syrian troops captured a militant-held area on the edge of Aleppo on Saturday, tightening their siege on opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city after what residents described as the…

Saudi airstrikes killed nine people in Houthi-controlled Ibb city in central Yemen late on Saturday, medical sources and residents in the area told Reuters. Nine people were also wounded in the…

Police in Charlotte, North Carolina, have released officer bodycam and dashcam footage of a controversial shooting of a black man on Tuesday. They also released pictures of a handgun and marijuana…

Bosnian Serbs are voting on whether to keep January 9 as a national holiday in defiance of Bosnia’s highest court. It has ruled the date discriminates against Muslim Bosniaks and Catholic Croats…

An explosion rocked central Budapest late on Saturday, injuring two police officers, Hungarian police said on Sunday. Police have yet to identify the cause of the blast, they said in a statement…

French President Francois Hollande has said 9,000 places are to be created around the country for migrants living in Calais.

In a TV interview, he said the camp would be dismantled.…

Texas Senator Ted Cruz has said he’ll vote for his former rival for the Republican nomination, Donald Trump.

Only a couple of months ago, Cruz was vilified for refusing to endorse the New…

Jeremy Corbyn was reelected leader of Britain’s opposition Labor Party on Saturday, ending a “coup” attempt by more moderate lawmakers who say his leftwing agenda can never deliver victory at the…

The moment North Carolina police shot a black man was captured on video by his wife, who can be heard pleading with officers: “Don’t shoot him!”

In the footage, Rakeyia Scott tells husband…

US and Russian plans to end Syria’s conflict must be saved as there is no alternative, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has told the UN.

Lavrov was speaking as the northern city of…

Four people are confirmed dead after a shooting at a shopping center in the northwestern state of Washington in the US on Friday. Police say the suspect is still on the loose. Sergeant Mark…

US President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed legislation allowing families of victims of the Sept. 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia, which could prompt Congress to overturn his decision with a rare…

Colombia’s largest rebel group has given its approval to a peace deal agreed with the government after nearly four years of talks.

The announcement of the unanimous decision by FARC members…

A triple suicide bombing against a security checkpoint north of Baghdad on Saturday killed at least 11 members of the security forces, a police officer said.

The “Quartet” of Middle East peace mediators said on Friday it was strongly opposed to Israel’s ongoing settlement activity, warning that it risked ending the chance of a two-state solution with…

A senior Egyptian official says a total of 115 bodies were pulled out of the waters off the Egyptian coast, three days after hundreds of migrants heading to Europe drowned.

Mohammed Sultan…