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US-led coalition airstrikes reportedly killed dozens of Syrian soldiers on Saturday, endangering a US-Russian brokered ceasefire and prompting an emergency UN Security Council meeting as tensions…

Fewer than a dozen world leaders have made an appearance at a meeting of a large Cold War-era bloc in Venezuela. The cash-strapped country has spent more than $120 million to prepare for the event…

A group of Central European EU members known as the Visegrad Four is ready to veto any Brexit deal that would limit people's right to work in the UK, Slovakian PM Robert Fico says. In an interview…

At least 29 people have been injured in an explosion in a crowded district of New York City.

The cause of the blast late on Saturday in Chelsea remains unclear. Mayor Bill de Blasio…

An Egyptian court on Saturday upheld a decision to freeze the assets of several prominent human rights campaigners in the latest blow to a once-vibrant activist community that has been largely…

Russia’s governing party and its three largely cooperative opponents are expected to retain their positions in the national parliament, but new procedures for choosing the seats could affect their…

The Pentagon says a US airstrike has killed one of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group’s most senior leaders, Wa’il Adil Hasan Salman al-Fayad, in Syria.

Also known as Dr Wa’il,…

With policy splits among European Union countries putting their bloc under existential threat, national leaders agreed Friday on a six-month timetable to come up with solutions for the multiple…

An accused Al-Qaeda bomb-maker who went to college in Arizona told military officials at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that he believed an unnamed member of the Saudi royal family was part…

Republican US presidential candidate, Donald Trump, is facing criticism after appearing to hint at the assassination of his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton for a second time.

Trump…

Investigators from France’s Institute for Criminal Research found traces of the explosive material TNT last week in Cairo on debris from an EgyptAir plane that crashed in May, triggering a dispute…

A Swedish appeals court decided to uphold the arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Friday, prolonging the six-year-long legal standoff with prosecutors and clearing the way for…

About 980 million liters of radioactive water have leaked into Florida’s main underground source of drinking water, officials in the US state say. The leak occurred after a huge sinkhole opened up…

The spotlight will be on Syria when world leaders gather at the United Nations next week, as the United States and Russia try to shore up a fragile truce deal and US President Barack Obama pushes…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday lambasted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “ethnic cleansing” video as an “unacceptable and outrageous” portrayal of people who oppose…

Russia said the Syrian Army had begun to withdraw from a road into Aleppo on Thursday, a prerequisite for pressing ahead with international peacemaking efforts as the government and militants…

A large item of debris found off the coast of Tanzania belongs to the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Australian investigators say. The fragment, said to be the inboard section of the…

Turkish air strikes have killed 16 suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group in the southeastern province of Hakkari near the border with Iraq over the past two days,…

Expressing grave concern at the continued use of terrorism for achieving political objectives in the region, India and Afghanistan on Wednesday called for an end to all sponsorship and sanctuaries…

Shimon Peres, Israel’s former president, has been put into an induced coma by doctors after suffering a stroke.

The 93-year-old elder statesman was stable and fully conscious before…

Turkey has asked Washington to arrest a US-based religious leader and businessman for allegedly masterminding a failed attempt to overthrow the government, according to state media.

The…

The UN welcomes "a significant drop in violence" in Syria, as the ceasefire in the country appears to be holding.

Staffan de Mistura, the UN’s special envoy to Syria, says he hopes that aid…

The “Russia card” too often gets the spotlight in the US presidential election campaign, President Putin’s Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, adding that Obama’s recent comments on Russia do not…

The United States has agreed to a record multibillion-dollar deal to provide Israel with military assistance over a decade-the largest such agreement ever with any country.

Following 10…

US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in New York on Sunday to discuss responses to North Korea's latest nuclear test, South Korea's Foreign…