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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his government would ensure that the Turkish people’s “call” to reinstate the death penalty in wake of the failed coup is heard despite the EU’s…

Two attackers killed a priest with a blade and seriously wounded another hostage in a church in northern France on Tuesday before being shot dead by French police.

The attack took place…

In the wake of revelations that the Democratic National Committee displayed favoritism toward presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, her rival…

China’s foreign minister has asked US Secretary of State John Kerry to support the resumption of talks between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea, following a ruling against…

Australia’s prime minister has called for an investigation into allegations that teenagers were abused at a juvenile detention center in the country’s north.

Malcolm Turnbull also said on…

A Syrian man who detonated explosives outside a music festival in the German city of Ansbach, killing only himself and wounding at least 15 people, had pledged allegiance to the self-styled…

The number of bodies of refugees recovered on a Libyan beach since the weekend has risen to 87, according to a media official from the coastal city of Sabratha.

The bodies began washing up…

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday he hoped to announce in early August details of a US plan for closer military cooperation and intelligence sharing with Russia on Syria.

Holding this year’s summit in a tent in the capital Nouakchott, Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz said it was “a historic event that the Mauritanian people have long awaited.”

Nineteen residents have been killed in a knife attack at a care center for people with mental disabilities in the Japanese city of Sagamihara.

Such attacks are extremely rare in Japan,…

At least 13 people were killed when two vehicles packed with explosives went off as they were driven towards a base for African Union troops in the Somali capital, according to officials and…

Shots erupted outside a party for teenagers at a Florida nightclub early on Monday, killing two people and wounding as many as 17 others in the latest burst of gun violence to wrack the state this…

Democratic Party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has resigned following a leak of emails suggesting an insider attempt to hobble the campaign of Hillary Clinton’s rival in the White House primaries…

Detention warrants for 42 Turkish journalists have been issued by authorities, Turkish media reported on Monday.

A 27-year-old Syrian man died when a bomb he was carrying in a rucksack went off outside a music festival in Germany and wounded 12 people, an official said.

Police said in a statement…

Britain will need months of preparation before Brexit talks can start, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Monday, chiding the government in London for not preparing better for the…

A suicide car bomb killed at least 21 people and wounded more than 32 at the entrance of a town northeast of Baghdad on Monday morning, security sources told Al Jazeera. There was no immediate…

Pope Francis' advocacy of refugee rights faces a diplomatic test on Wednesday when he begins a five-day visit to Poland, where a populist government has slammed the door on most asylum-seekers.…

Floods in north and central China have killed at least 150 people, with scores missing and hundreds of thousands forced from homes, officials say.

Hebei and Henan provinces are the worst…

American activists from the Black Lives Matter movement marched with Brazilian partners through central Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, to protest police violence before the city hosts the first-ever…

The responsibility of US-led coalition special forces being present in areas targeted by Russian airstrikes in Syria lies on their top commanders, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

It also…

The 18-year-old suspect who opened fire at a crowded Munich shopping center and fast-food restaurant, shooting nine people dead and wounding 16 others before killing himself, was obsessed with…

Southeast Asian foreign ministers will hold crunch talks in Laos on Sunday at a summit already overshadowed by infighting over Beijing’s sabre rattling in the South China Sea.

Former Argentine president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, said she is not afraid of going to prison as a result of the corruption charges she faces.

Fernandez has been accused of making…

Turkey’s authorities have detained the “right hand” of US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused of masterminding the failed coup attempt, a…