International

Colombians are celebrating the signing of a ceasefire by the government and the Farc rebel movement, which ended 50 years of civil war. In the capital, Bogota, people took to the streets, hugging…

A heavily armed man who barricaded himself in a cinema in the German town of Viernheim has been shot dead. His motives are still not known.

According to the state interior minister of Hesse…

The UK’s vote to leave the EU has sparked demands from far-right parties for referendums in other member states.

France’s National Front leader Marine Le Pen tweeted “Victory for freedom”…

At least 79 people have been killed by lightning strikes in the Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Madhya Pradesh, officials say.

Fifty-three people died in Bihar, 10 people were killed…

A day before a large union demonstration is set to take place in Paris, the police have pulled the plug.

Previous demos were marked by violence and security forces are already under strain…

India has successfully launched 20 satellites in a single mission, the most in the history of the country’s ambitious space program.

They include satellites belonging to the United States,…

A mystery explosion in a town close to the Libyan capital Tripoli has killed at least 25 people, apparently after a dispute at a shop escalated.

The blast took place in Garabulli after…

Israel will open a NATO mission at alliance headquarters. Closer cooperation between the Israeli regime and NATO had been blocked by a feud between Turkey and Israel, which are now on the cusp of…

Jordan has declared its border regions with Syria and Iraq to be closed military zones after a suicide bombing on Tuesday that killed six soldiers. It is not clear who was behind the attack, which…

North Korea launched what appeared to be a second intermediate-range Musudan missile on Wednesday that flew about 400 km, in what appeared to be its most effective test yet, hours after another…

Lawmaker Jo Cox, who was shot and stabbed a week before Britain’s referendum on European Union membership, died because of her political views and had been deeply troubled by the tone of the…

A senior US diplomat was in Venezuela on Tuesday to meet officials to jumpstart dialogue between the normally hostile governments as the socialist-run nation is torn apart by daily food protests…

The UN has condemned an “intensified crackdown” on rights in Bahrain after the country revoked the citizenship of a leading Shia authority Ayatollah Isa Qassim.

Germany does not extend the same rights to refugee children as it does to native-born children, UNICEF has said.

This was worrying for a group in need of special care, the children's…

An Egyptian judge has quashed a government decision to hand back two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia.

Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi had announced the return of Tiran and Sanafir…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group launched a counter-attack against fighters trying to capture the Syrian city of Manbij on Monday, inflicting heavy casualties on the US-backed forces…

Venezuelan opposition leader Henrique Capriles has said that more than 70,000 people who endorsed a petition for a referendum to oust President Nicolas Maduro had their signatures validated on…

Japan’s military was on alert for a possible North Korean ballistic missile launch, a government source said on Tuesday, with media reporting its navy and anti-missile Patriot batteries have been…

Jordan’s Army says attackers have detonated a car bomb on the border with Syria, killing 6 and wounding 14 Jordanian troops. The military says the attack took place at about 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday,…

A Briton who tried to grab a police officer’s gun at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas said he wanted to shoot the US candidate, court papers say.

Michael Steven Sandford, 20, did not enter…

Turkey’s representative for Reporters Without Borders has been arrested on charges of disseminating “terrorist propaganda”. Rights groups have raised the alarm over a crackdown on the media.

Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Helmand stopped vehicles and detained at least 25 people, officials said on Tuesday, as the insurgents continued a series of abductions on…

A divided US Senate has rejected four bills to restrict gun sales. Pressure is mounting on lawmakers to take action to restrict gun sales following last week’s mass shooting in Orlando.

North Korea will not negotiate with the United States over two American citizens it is holding until former detainee Kenneth Bae stops publicly talking about his time in prison, state media said…

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned on Monday that in the event the UK chose to leave the EU, other member states would have to do everything to prevent the reversal of…