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Thirteen months after launching an improbable bid for the White House, Donald Trump captured the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, having vanquished 16 party rivals, warred with…

US President Barack Obama spoke to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, offering US assistance as Ankara investigates last week’s attempted coup, but urging the government to show restraint as…

Pages from a notebook found at the home of an Afghan teen who attacked passengers on a German train with an ax may be regarded as a suicide note, police and investigating officials said during a…

A 12-year-old Palestinian was killed on Tuesday evening during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the town of Al-Ram north of Beit-ul-Moqaddas in the central occupied West Bank after he was struck…

The third day of a hostage crisis in Yerevan has seen gunmen free two out of seven people held at a police station in the Armenian capital.

According to a police statement on Tuesday,…

Ten paramilitary soldiers have been killed in a clash between security forces and Maoist rebels in India’s eastern Bihar state, police say.

At least five other soldiers were injured in the…

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned that further “criminal activity will be forcefully dealt with” and announced that the United States has been given evidence of the involvement of…

At least three people were wounded in clashes with the Israel Defense Forces, as army troops bulldozed a Palestinian suspect’s house in West Bank.

Angry locals reportedly threw Molotov…

Turkey purged its police on Monday after rounding up thousands of soldiers in the wake of a failed military coup.

Nearly 20,000 members of the police, civil service, judiciary and army have…

The Philippines has turned down a Chinese proposal to start bilateral talks, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, because of Beijing’s precondition of not discussing a court ruling that nullified…

British MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favor of renewing their aging nuclear weapons system, Trident.

Some observers say new PM Theresa May is using the vote to unify her party after a…

North Korea test-fired three ballistic missiles on Tuesday, in further defiance of the international community and in apparent reaction to the planned deployment of a US defense system in the…

WikiLeaks has said it is planning to release documents on Turkey’s political power structure, after a failed coup attempt over the weekend that left hundreds dead, thousands injured and more than…

Twenty-six people are believed killed after a bus carrying tourists caught fire and burst into flames after an accident on a highway in Taiwan, China.

The accident happened near Taoyuan…

German police have shot dead a young Afghan refugee after he attacked passengers on a train with an axe and a knife.

Police have found a hand-painted flag of the self-styled Islamic State…

At least 21 civilians have been killed in airstrikes by US-led coalition planes against areas in Syria held by the self-styled Islamic State militant group, a monitoring group said.

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Donald Trump’s wife, Melania, took center-stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention but faced accusations that a portion of her speech plagiarized Michelle Obama. Commentators…

Britain’s Theresa May will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday to discuss how they can work together as Britain prepares to leave the European Union in her first foreign visit as…

Morocco has formally announced its wish to rejoin the African Union, 32 years after leaving the organization.

In a message to the AU summit in Rwanda, Moroccan King Mohammed VI said the…

Two car bombs went off near army checkpoints in Yemen’s southeastern city of Mukalla, killing several security personnel and wounding many more.

New Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he would assure his EU counterparts on Monday that Britain would continue to cooperate closely with them once it leaves the bloc following last month’s…

Gunmen killed at least two policemen in Kazakhstan’s financial capital Almaty in three near-simultaneous attacks on Monday, security sources and witnesses said.

The Interfax news agency,…

Renewed fighting in South Sudan, which has killed more than 300 people, is set to dominate an African Union summit that starts in the Rwandan capital of Kigali on Sunday.

A shaky ceasefire…

Malaysia Airlines has settled damages with the relatives of most victims of the MH17 crash, the lawyer representing the victims, Veeru Mewa, says.

Flight MH17 was shot down exactly two…

Authorities in the Indian-administered part of Kashmir have shut down printing presses and temporarily banned newspapers from publishing in a sweeping information blackout after days of anti-India…