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At least 272 people have died in fighting between South Sudan’s rival factions in the capital Juba, including 33 civilians, a government source said on Sunday, as heavy gunfire erupted again in…

More than 5,000 French police will be deployed at key venues in and around Paris ahead of the Euro 2016 football final between France and Portugal on Sunday.

Officials say the police will…

The number of refugees entering Germany has plummeted since January, according to German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.

Pro-migrant activists decried the drop as a sign of a “refugee…

The British government has rejected an online petition signed by 4.1 million people calling for a new referendum on whether to leave the European Union.

Britons voted by 52 to 48%, or 17.4…

Russia said on Saturday it had expelled two US Embassy staff members in June after a similar “unfriendly” move by Washington.

One of the expelled diplomats was involved in an incident with…

The talk at this week's NATO summit in Warsaw was apparently all about deterring a resurgent Russia, supporting Ukraine and Afghanistan, and protecting Baltic NATO members.

But in the…

North Korea fired a ballistic missile from a submarine on Saturday but it appears to have failed soon after launch, South Korea’s military said.

Americans’ demand for an alternative to the two main presidential candidates has surged since the last election, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll shows, underscoring the unpopularity of Republican…

At least 12 people have died of dehydration and exhaustion while sitting in traffic in Indonesia. Traffic filled up three lanes for several days on the island of Java. Crowds travelling to their…

Bomb-making material, rifles, ammunition and a combat journal have been found at the home of the suspect in the Dallas shooting, officials say.

Five police officers were killed and seven…

The senior command of the Colombian Farc rebels has said it will disown one of its guerrilla units, if it refuses to demobilize.

A commander in eastern Colombia said units that did not…

There has been heavy fighting outside the presidential compound in Juba, sparking fears of a renewed civil war.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed for calm and said he was “deeply…

Saudi officials say 12 out of 19 people arrested over Monday’s three bomb attacks in the country are Pakistani nationals.

An interior ministry spokesman also named a suicide bomber who…

Britain is on course to get its second female prime minister, after Conservative lawmakers chose Home Secretary Theresa May and Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom on Thursday to fight a runoff contest…

The US State Department says it will reopen an investigation into whether Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information. An FBI probe this week found Clinton and her aides had been “careless”…

A group of families of British soldiers killed in Iraq are preparing to use the results of the Chilcot inquiry to push for Tony Blair’s trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group claimed a triple suicide attack on Thursday evening near a Shia mausoleum north of Baghdad, which killed at least 35 people and wounded 60 others,…

Five Dallas police officers have been killed and six wounded by sniper fire during protests against the shooting of black men by police, authorities say.

Three people are in custody and one…

More than 180 people have been killed in flooding along Yangtze River in China following torrential rain, officials say.

Between 10 cm and 50 cm of rain have fallen in seven provinces and…

The leader of Britain's insurgent rightwing populist UK Independence Party said on Monday he was stepping down after realizing his ambition to win a vote for Britain to leave the EU, punching…

Israel said it expected “different behavior” from a key ally, after opposition lawmaker Tzipi Livni was summoned for an interview with UK police.

Livni was Israel’s foreign minister during…

A leading UK law firm is to take legal action against the government if parliament is not consulted before triggering Article 50 to leave the EU.

Mishcon de Reya said a final decision…

Turkey has sent food, medicine and clothes to Gaza via the Israeli port of Ashdod, as part of its rapprochement with Israel. The move comes six years after a deadly raid by Israeli commandos on…

With Australia’s government in chaos amid a dramatic national election that failed to deliver an immediate winner, the country’s opposition leader called on Monday for the prime minister to resign…

Seven militants who killed 20 people at a Dhaka restaurant made no demands and a person taken alive by police was only a suspect admitted in hospital, Bangladesh’s home minister said on Sunday,…