International

Fourteen people, mostly children, died when a storm caught a boating party on Lake Syamozero in northern Russia's Karelia region.  Most of the 37 survivors reached an island in the lake while…

China has accused the Indonesian Navy of opening fire on a Chinese fishing boat in disputed fishing grounds.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that one fisherman was injured and…

Italians elected candidates of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement to run city halls in the capital Rome and Turin in the north, in a setback for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s plans to…

Everyone has the right "to live a life fit for a human being", organizers said in a statement. The demonstrations in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Leipzig follow a surge of attacks against refugee…

More than 20 people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan on Monday, including at least 14 when a suicide bomber struck a minibus carrying Nepalese security contractors in the Afghan…

The number of people displaced by conflict is at the highest level ever recorded, the UN refugee agency says. It estimates that 65.3 million people were either refugees, asylum seekers or…

Donald Trump has suggested the US should "seriously" consider profiling Muslims inside the country to fight terror. The presumptive Republican nominee has previously called for a ban on Muslim…

Six people were killed and 53 injured in Mexico on Sunday when clashes broke out between members of a teachers' trade union and police at a protest that police say had been infiltrated by armed…

The United States should not interfere in China's internal affairs on matters related to Tibet, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told US Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone call on Saturday…

Russia and the United States have agreed on the need to improve coordination to avert incidents while conducting military operations in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

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Iraqi government-run camps struggled on Sunday to shelter people fleeing Fallujah, as the military battled the self-styled Islamic State terrorists in the city's northern districts.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled that he intends to revive plans to redevelop a central Istanbul park that sparked large anti-government protests in 2013. Erdogan said Gezi…

Polls have shown a slight boost for the “Remain” side in Britain’s EU referendum as both campaigns get underway again. Campaigning had been suspended following the shock killing of lawmaker Jo Cox…

Thousands of people gathered on the Japanese island of Okinawa on Sunday in one of the biggest demonstrations in two decades against US military bases, following the arrest of an American…

Egypt’s deposed President Mohammed Morsi has been sentenced to 40 years in prison on charges of leaking secret state documents to Qatar. Two al-Jazeera journalists were sentenced to death in…

The Belgian police arrested 12 people suspected of planning new attacks after about 40 houses were searched across the country overnight, the federal prosecutor’s office said on Saturday.

Donald Trump chipped away at Hillary Clinton’s lead in the presidential race this week, as the candidates clashed over how to respond to the worst mass shooting in modern US history.

The decapitated bodies of seven men have been found on a rural road in an area where several drug cartels operate.

The victims-all men-were between 22 and 49-years-old.

They “were…

Within six days of announcing a crackdown on militants, Bangladesh had filled its jailhouses with 11,600 new detainees in what seemed like an astonishing display of law enforcement might.

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Iraqi government forces have retaken most of the city of Fallujah from the self-styled Islamic State terrorists who have held it since January 2014, officials say.

US Defense Secretary Ash…

Canada’s Parliament has passed a contentious bill to allow medically-assisted death for terminally ill people. The law was put forward after the Supreme Court struck down a ban on doctors helping…

The US administration sought on Friday to contain fallout from a leaked internal memo critical of its Syria policy, but showed no sign it was willing to consider military strikes against Syrian…

The far-right leader of the Russian football supporters’ association is due to be deported from France later, along with 19 fellow fans.

It follows violence at the England-Russia Euro 2016…

The German foreign minister has said recent NATO maneuvers could further inflame the security situation in eastern Europe.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for dialogue with Russia ahead…

British police said on Saturday they had charged a 52-year-old man in the slaying of lawmaker Jo Cox, and said the suspect appeared to have acted alone.