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Donald Trump has said he will no longer grant access to the storied D.C. newspaper. It’s the latest move in what many see as a concerted effort by Trump to control the news media.

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Venezuela’s government has asked the Supreme Court to reject the opposition’s proposal to hold a referendum to remove President Nicolas Maduro from office. It accused the leaders of the recall…

The gunman whose attack on a nightclub left 49 victims dead appears to have been a “homegrown extremist” who espoused support for a jumble of often-conflicting radical groups, the White House and…

A Canadian hostage held by the militant group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines has been killed, media reports say.

Robert Hall was kidnapped in September along with three other hostages from…

Mexican police have arrested a teachers’ union leader accused of siphoning off money raised illegally from union members in the southern city of Oaxaca.

Ruben Nunez has led a decade-long…

US President Barack Obama may not decide before a NATO summit next month whether to alter plans to nearly halve America’s forces in Afghanistan, a diplomat and a US official said.

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Dozens of bodies were slowly removed overnight from a popular Orlando club after a gunman sprayed the helpless crowd with bullets in violence that killed 50 people and devastated a city famous for…

Hundreds of civilians have reportedly escaped from a stronghold of militants besieged in northern Syria. In a blow to the self-styled Islamic State militant group, a US-backed alliance has…

A bomb exploded outside the headquarters of Lebanese Blom Bank in central Beirut on Sunday, causing damage but no fatalities, the interior minister said. There was no immediate claim of…

The president of the European Council has warned of the lengthy process that would ensue if the UK left the bloc.

Tensions have risen across the UK and the EU ahead of a historic vote on…

The French government has urged cities hosting Euro 2016 matches to ban alcohol near venues and fan zones. It follows three days of clashes between fans and police in Marseille.

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The slender Eritrean man with a close-cropped beard was arrested by Sudanese police on May 24 at a coffee shop in Khartoum.

Two weeks later, he was flown to Italy in what Italian and…

Turkey’s state-run news agency says three suspects have been ordered jailed pending prosecution in connection with a car bombing in Istanbul that killed 11 people.

Nigeria is firing dozens of senior officers accused of corruption and the theft of billions of dollars meant to buy arms to fight the Boko Haram insurgency, the army and an officer privy to the…

At least 50 people have been killed and some 53 injured in a shooting at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the mayor Buddy Dyer    says.

Orlando Police said officers entered…

Turkish warplanes killed 13 suspected Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants on Saturday in the southeast province of Diyarbakir, military sources said. The rebels were spotted by an unmanned…

A number of British people are in hospital in France, the UK’s ambassador has said following a series of clashes between football fans in Marseille.

Violence has broken out among England…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said a potential recall referendum against him will not be held before 2017. The opposition has blamed Maduro for the country’s dismal economy in recent…

Three former government ministers have been arrested in Guatemala on corruption charges. All served under former president Perez Molina, who is in jail facing charges of money laundering and…

Eleven German MPs of Turkish origin have been put under police protection. They received death threats after supporting a move to describe the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as…

Several thousand demonstrators formed a human chain along the perimeter of a US Air Force Base in southwest Germany on Saturday in protest against drone operations by the United States.

At least eight people have been killed in a twin bomb attack on a suburb of Damascus, which is home to Syria’s holiest Shia shrine, state media say.

Some 13 other people were wounded in the…

The number of asylum-seeker lawsuits against Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees has risen sharply in 2016. Refugees have sued the ministry over their failure to act on asylum…

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri, in an online audio message, pledged allegiance to the new head of the Afghan Taliban, who was appointed last month after his predecessor was killed in a US drone…

Forces aligned with Libya’s unity government said on Friday they had taken control of the port of Sirte, making further gains in the North African stronghold of the self-styled Islamic State…