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A bomb scare has forced the partial evacuation of the airport in Frankton, New Zealand, after a cleaner found a “message” about an explosive device on board a plane that landed in Queenstown…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has said it was behind an attack on a protest march in the Afghan capital, Kabul, that killed at least 61 people and wounded 200.

The IS-linked…

Iraqi forces are digging a trench on the northern outskirts of Fallujah, a month after taking it back from the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, security officials said on Saturday,…

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he would meet his Russian counterpart in the coming days to discuss an American proposal for closer military cooperation and intelligence sharing on…

Hillary Clinton named Virginia Senator Tim Kaine as her vice presidential running mate on Friday, adding a centrist former governor of a crucial battleground state to the Democratic ticket.

Britain’s National Police Chiefs Council has reported more than 6,000 hate crime incidents across the United Kingdom since the EU referendum in late June. Most of the cases have involved violence…

Heavy rain in China has killed at least 87 people and forced thousands from their homes, state media reported on Saturday. The government of Henan Province in central China said 15 people were…

An 18-year-old gunman who apparently acted alone opened fire near a busy shopping mall in Munich on Friday evening, killing at least nine people in the third attack on civilians in Western Europe…

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria hopes that a meeting expected to be held in Geneva next week with American and Russian officials will pave the way for resumption of peace talks between…

A triumphant Donald Trump accepted the Republican White House nomination Thursday, promising fearful Americans he would restore "safety" to a country mired in crises that had lost its way.

French President Francois Hollande urged Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday to quickly come up with a negotiating stance for Britain's departure from the European Union but agreed she needed…

The man who killed 84 people when he drove a lorry through crowds in the French city of Nice planned the attack for months, and had the help of at least five accomplices, authorities…

Prominent Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday welcomed this week’s resignation of seven government ministers, urging remaining Cabinet members to follow suit.

French President Francois Hollande told Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in Paris on Thursday that his country is committed to leading international efforts to help secure peace between Israel and…

Another coup attempt is still possible in Turkey because “separatists” and “terrorists” have potentially infiltrated the state structure, President Tayyip Erdogan has warned, claiming that the…

Six Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers have destroyed two terrorist command centers and compounds during airstrikes at the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group near the ancient Syrian city of…

The Roman Catholic Church may soon join Ibero-American leaders seeking dialogue between Venezuela’s feuding government and opposition, the head of a regional bloc said on Thursday. “I think it’s…

This week it became official. Donald J. Trump was nominated as the GOP’s candidate for president after a last-ditch attempt by anti-Trump delegates to stop him was defeated.

What seemed a…

China’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged the US Republican Party to stop making “groundless accusations” against China in its party platform, which says China practices cultural genocide in…

Seventeen soldiers have been killed and 35 wounded in central Mali in an assault on their military base that authorities called a "coordinated terrorist attack".

The raid on Tuesday is the…

Militants and a monitoring group said two explosions that struck a Syrian town near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Wednesday were caused by an Israeli airstrike but Lebanon’s Hezbollah…

North Korea said on Wednesday its latest ballistic missile tests were personally ordered and monitored by its leader Kim Jong-un and simulated nuclear strikes on US bases in South Korea. …

French lawmakers voted at the National Assembly in the early hours of Wednesday morning to extend the country’s state of emergency by six months.

In light of last Thursday’s deadly…

Despite a massive cyber attack on its website, WikiLeaks has published the first batch of nearly 300,000 emails from the Turkish ruling AKP party’s internal server and thousands of attached files…

The role of AU forces is on the rise, as African leaders voted to send a large AU military force to South Sudan with a more robust mandate than the 12,000-strong UN protection force already in the…