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North Korea’s deputy ambassador in London has defected with his family, according to media reports, which if confirmed would make it one of the most high-profile defections in recent years from…

Pro-government forces have taken back a key neighborhood in the embattled coastal city Sirte, the main Libya outpost belonging to the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group.

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has said initial evidence suggests the shooting of a black man by police in Milwaukee was justified.

The killing of Sylville Smith in a…

Brazil’s embattled president, Dilma Rousseff, has made a last-ditch effort to avoid impeachment, telling MPs again that voters should decide if they want an early presidential election. She goes…

A Taiwanese armored vehicle has plunged from a three-meter bridge in heavy rain after a military drill and killed three soldiers, officials say. The CM11 armored vehicle carrying five soldiers was…

The cost from damage to infrastructure and economic losses in Yemen’s war is more than $14 billion so far, according to a confidential report seen by Reuters that highlights the effort needed to…

A “gutsy” move by a rising Mexican drug cartel to abduct a son of imprisoned drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is raising alarms of a possible wave of bloodshed as it challenges his Sinaloa…

China and a grouping of Southeast Asian nations aim to finish by the middle of next year a framework for a code of conduct to ease tension in the disputed South China Sea, state media said on…

More than 100 former employees from Australia’s offshore detention centers have called for asylum seekers to be brought to the mainland. The staff worked with detainees held on the Pacific island…

Secretary-General of United Nations Ban Ki-moon has said he would like a woman to take over from him.

Ban said it was “high time” for a female head, after more than 70 years of the UN and…

A decision by the United States and South Korea to deploy an advanced anti-missile defense system is aimed at defending against North Korea’s missile threat and does not threaten China, a senior…

Police and troops are searching for 10 to 12 suspected gang members who were abducted in a shocking raid by gunmen from an apparent celebration at an upscale restaurant in the popular Mexican…

Milwaukee has imposed a curfew on teenagers to quell protests after police killed a black man over the weekend.

The midsized Midwestern city is one of the most segregated in the United…

South Sudanese troops went on a rampage in Juba in July, killing, raping and beating civilians, according to a rights group. It says UN peacekeepers failed to fulfill their duty to protect the…

New York police have charged a man with murder in connection with the killing of an imam and an aide on Saturday. Oscar Morel, 35, was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Imam…

Fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were sent to the UAE in the single largest release of detainees by the administration of US President Barack Obama, the Pentagon announced…

Donald Trump has vowed an overhaul of the US immigrant screening process to bar those who “don’t embrace American values”. In a speech on national security, Trump also called Germany’s immigration…

A Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, the aid group said.

The European Union should grant Turks visa-free travel in October or the migrant deal that involves Turkey stemming the flow of illegal migrants to the bloc should be put aside, Foreign Minister…

Russia and the United States are close to starting joint military action against militants in the Syrian city of Aleppo, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

"We are now in a very…

Donald Trump says he is furious at media coverage of a comment he made on the “Second Amendment,” which many took as a call to arms. He is also angered by suggestions of growing dysfunction and…

A preliminary investigation found no evidence of gunfire in a terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday, despite earlier reports of shots being heard, the airport’s…

Two armed militants attacked a police station in Indian-ruled Kashmir on Monday, police said, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered his annual Independence Day speech in the national capital,…

The leader of India’s main opposition Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, has been discharged from hospital where she had surgery to repair a shoulder injury, doctors say. Her condition is stable and…

Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched a fresh attack on militants of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group early on Sunday as part of a campaign to capture Mosul, the militants’ de facto…