International

Turkey renewed airstrikes against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Syria on Friday, extending operations along a 90-km corridor near the Turkish border, which Ankara says it is…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared a nationwide “state of lawlessness” on Saturday after suspected Abu Sayyaf extremists detonated a bomb that killed 14 people and wounded about 70 in…

Venezuela’s socialist government said on Friday it thwarted a coup plot this week as opponents planned to build on their biggest protest in more than a decade with further street action demanding…

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has published a summary of interviews with Hillary Clinton and others over the presidential candidate’s use of a private email server while serving as…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday spoke of their joint resolve to settle once and for all a territorial row over a string of tiny islands, which…

Gabon opposition leader, Jean Ping, on Friday declared himself the rightful president and called for a vote recount, days after incumbent Ali Bongo was declared the winner of a weekend election…

Two bombs killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens outside a court complex in northwest Pakistan, a rescue official said, hours after militants from a Pakistani Taliban faction attacked a…

Protesters want a recall referendum to oust President Nicolas Maduro and they want it before a key date in January. If Maduro loses a recall vote before January 10, there will be a snap election…

Three people were killed and up to 1,100 were arrested in Gabon on Thursday, the government said, in a second day of rioting over the announcement of President Ali Bongo’s reelection and his main…

Companies building a multibillion-dollar bridge to link the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea, a project close to the heart of Russian President Vladimir Putin, were targeted by the United…

Uzbekistan’s President Islam Karimov has died, Turkey said, despite no official confirmation from the Uzbek government. Karimov, 78, was taken to hospital last week after a brain hemorrhage.…

After a summer of political earthquakes followed by a few weeks of holiday calm, Prime Minister Theresa May will meet members of her government on Wednesday to discuss how Britain is to leave the…

Italy witnessed a surge of migrant arrivals at the end of August amid favorable weather conditions on the sea. Rome has warned would-be migrants of the perils of the deadly voyage after 3,000 died…

The government of Myanmar is holding landmark peace talks with armed ethnic groups as part of efforts to bring an end to decades of conflict. The meeting in the capital Nay Pyi Taw, involving 17…

North Korea has executed a vice premier and banished two other top officials to rural areas for re-education, South Korean officials said Wednesday.

If confirmed, they would be the latest…

Russia questioned on Tuesday a report by the United Nations and a global chemical weapons watchdog that blamed Syrian government forces for two chlorine gas attacks, saying the UN Security Council…

The chief strategist of the Islamic State group, whose calls for attacks against the West during Ramadan led to mass bloodshed, has been killed in Syria, IS-affiliated media say. The Amaq news…

Flooding and mudslides that reached a care facility in the town of Iwaizumi in northern Japan caused the deaths of nine of the facility’s elderly residents, Japanese officials announced on…

In a surprise move, Donald Trump will travel to Mexico on Wednesday to meet with President Enrique Pena Nieto, just hours before the Republican delivers a highly anticipated speech on immigration…

The United States welcomed an apparent pause in fighting between Turkish-backed forces and Kurdish militia fighters in Syria on Tuesday, both of them members of the coalition fighting Islamic…

Bangladesh’s highest court has rejected a final appeal from Mir Quasem Ali against a death sentence for murder during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Ali financed the Jamaat-e-Islami…

A truck bomb has exploded outside a hotel in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, in a heavily secured area close to the gates of the presidential palace. A BBC reporter says politicians are among the…

Republican voters in Arizona and Florida are expected to pick Senators John McCain and Marco Rubio as their respective US Senate nominees when they go to the polls on Tuesday, but one name not on…

A defiant President Dilma Rousseff warned on Monday that her conservative opponents were trampling on Brazil’s democracy by using trumped-up charges to oust her and roll back the social advances…

The FBI has urged officials to secure election systems ahead of the US presidential elections. US officials have grown wary of cyber attacks on state and federal infrastructure following a series…