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 A fire swept through a Friday night birthday party at a café in the Normandy city of Rouen, killing at least 13 people and injuring six others, French authorities said.

More than 50…

US Secretary of State John Kerry is still pursuing an agreement with Russia on military cooperation in the fight against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Syria despite major…

Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for the US presidential election, has finally endorsed leading party colleagues. The move ends a four-day standoff and may signal a change in campaign strategy…

Lawyers for US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen say they fear an attack on his life, in the wake of the failed coup attempt on 15 July in Turkey. Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for Gulen…

Gunmen have opened fire on a busy marketplace in India's northeastern state of Assam, killing at least 13 people, officials say.

Police blamed the attacks on suspected rebels from a faction…

Protesters from the British arm of the Black Lives Matter movement blocked the main road to London’s Heathrow Airport on Friday, causing traffic congestion at the busiest airport in Europe.

US President Barack Obama says there have been gains against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria but warned the group still poses a threat. As the extremist group lost…

A Syrian group said on Thursday it had the bodies of five people shot down in a Russian helicopter and demanded the release of prisoners in exchange for the corpses.

South Africa’s governing African National Congress looks to be facing its biggest electoral setback since the end of apartheid, after the partial results of municipal elections.

With 85% of…

Militants have attacked a convoy of foreign tourists in west Afghanistan, injuring six and their Afghan driver.

The group of a dozen travelers was being escorted by Afghan Army personnel to…

The Egyptian military said on Thursday that it had killed the leader of an offshoot of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, along with 45 militants, in a series of airstrikes in Sinai…

The European Commission president says EU accession talks with Turkey should continue. Jean-Claude Juncker rejected an Austrian push to halt membership negotiations after rights violations…

A Senate impeachment committee voted on Thursday to put suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on trial in the full chamber for breaking budget laws, opening the way for her to be removed…

Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, has rejected suggestions that she violated visa rules when she started working as a model in New York. In a statement she…

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has named his wife as his running mate and candidate for vice president as he seeks reelection for a third term.

An Emirates airline flight from India has crash-landed at Dubai International Airport with some 300 people on board, officials say.

Images posted online show thick black smoke coming from…

Polling stations will open shortly in hotly-contested South African municipal elections. The polls are regarded a key barometer on the nation’s mood ahead of the 2019 general elections.

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Donald Trump has dismissed US Barack Obama’s time in the White House as a “disaster” after the US president said he was not fit to succeed him.

“He’s been weak, he’s been ineffective,”…

At least 22 people are missing after a highway bridge connecting the city of Mumbai with the beach resort state of Goa in western India collapsed. Officials said two buses carrying passengers…

US President Barack Obama and Singapore’s prime minister on Tuesday made sales pitches for a Pacific Rim trade deal that both US presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have…

A suicide car bomb attack in the eastern city of Benghazi targeting Libyan troops killed 23 people and wounded dozens of others on Tuesday, a hospital official said.

With yet another mayor shot dead in Mexico within two weeks, calls for better security for municipal officials have been quickly amassing. The country’s war on drugs is fast approaching crisis…

North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Wednesday that landed in or near Japanese-controlled waters for the first time, the latest in a series of launches by the isolated country in defiance…

German flag carrier Lufthansa warned on Tuesday that recent terror attacks in Europe were having a “tangible impact” on business, with second-quarter profits down 17%.

Net profits between…

Electoral authorities on Monday certified that opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro had gathered enough signatures to permit them to conduct a second petition drive aimed at removing…