International

Damascus has extended a ceasefire for 72 hours, marking the second of its kind since the end of Ramadan.

A top US diplomat is expected in Moscow, as the international community pushes to…

A prison inmate was taken to the courthouse for a hearing when he managed to wrest a gun away from a police officer. After shooting two bailiffs in an apparent escape attempt, the gunman was soon…

Judges at an arbitration tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands, on Tuesday rejected China’s claims to economic rights across large swathes of the South China Sea. The ruling will be claimed as a…

Iraqi officials say a car bombing at an outdoor market in a Shia-dominated northeastern district of Baghdad has killed at least 11 people. A police officer said an explosives-laden pickup truck…

The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to transform a freshly retaken air base into a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from the self-styled Islamic State…

The gunman who killed five police officers in Dallas was “changed” by his experience in the US military, his mother has said.

Micah Johnson went from being an extrovert to a “hermit”,…

North Korea's military has said it will make a "physical response" to the US and South Korea's decision to deploy the advanced THAAD missile defense system on the Korean peninsula. Beijing is not…

British Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom abruptly withdrew from the contest to succeed David Cameron as Britain’s prime minister on Monday, leaving her rival Theresa May as the only candidate.

There are fears of more violence in Indian-administered Kashmir, after a policeman drowned when his car was pushed into a river, police say.

However, some accounts said the car was not…

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans poured over the frontier with Colombia on Sunday to buy food and medicine after Caracas ordered the border open for the first time in 11 months.

President…

Soccer fans told they could not enter Paris’ Eiffel Tower fan zone responded by throwing bottles at police and setting fires. The riots were an unwelcome reminder of earlier tournament violence in…

The United States said on Sunday it had transferred a Yemeni inmate from the Guantanamo Bay prison to Italy, bringing the number of detainees at the US naval base in Cuba to 78.

Police in Berlin say 123 officers were injured in clashes with leftist protesters over the redevelopment of a district in the east of the city. About 3,500 protesters marched through…

More than 200 arrests have been made across the United States as protesters denounce killings by police.

A prominent activist has been detained in Louisiana and Dallas police released new…

The UN Security Council has called on warring factions in South Sudan to immediately end the recent fighting and prevent the spread of violence.

In a unanimous statement, the council…

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss restarting peace efforts with the Palestinians.

The son of slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has threatened revenge against the United States for assassinating his father, according to an audio message posted online.

Hamza bin Laden…

Japan is voting in a parliamentary election that has half of the seats in the upper house of parliament up for grabs. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is hoping for backing for his economic policies.…

Protesters and police have clashed in Indian-administered Kashmir, leaving many dead and injured. Unrest and fighting started on Saturday after the killing on Friday of a popular rebel commander…

Two Russian pilots were killed in Syria on Saturday when their helicopter was shot down by the self-styled Islamic State militants, the Kremlin said.

The men had been part of an attack on…

Afghan forces are suffering rising levels of battlefield casualties this year after unprecedented numbers of police and soldiers were killed and wounded in 2015, the top…

Britain broke international law when it invaded Iraq in 2003, its deputy prime minister at the time, John Prescott, said on Sunday in the wake of a critical report on the decision.

Kem Ley, a prominent Cambodian political commentator and critic of the government, has been shot dead, local media say. They quote police as saying he was killed at a gas station in the capital…

Australia’s prime minister said on Sunday that his conservative coalition government was reelected for a second three-year term, after a chaotic national election that left the country in a state…

Despite overnight clashes that resulted in 30 arrests, demonstrators refused to back down in Louisiana.

Hundreds gathered outside the shop where 37-year-old Alton Sterling was shot by white…