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Pilots at the French national airline have started a four-day strike that could disrupt plans for thousands of football fans on the second day of the Euro 2016 competition. Air France has…

Another suspect has been arrested in connection with the March 22 terrorist attacks in Brussels. The man was detained following a raid on his house in the Belgian capital.

Keiko Fujimori conceded defeat on Friday to Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in Peru’s tightest presidential election in decades, but she warned that her rightwing populist party would be a force of…

Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) has ruled that 1.3 million people who signed a petition for a referendum to oust President Nicolas Maduro will need to turn up at regional electoral…

John Major and Tony Blair warned a vote to leave the EU will “jeopardize the unity” of the UK, as they campaigned together in Northern Ireland.

They suggested a Leave vote may reopen…

US and Iraqi officials fighting the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group said on Friday they could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been…

The Euro 2016 football championships kicked off in France on Friday under unprecedented security measures and with French President Francois Hollande vowing to take decisive action to stop strikes…

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has accused Riyadh of exerting “undue pressure” to get the Saudi-led battle group in Yemen deleted from a UN child violator blacklist. He said Saudi funding for millions of…

“I’m with her,” US President Barack Obama has declared in a video statement. His support for Hillary Clinton came just after a meeting in the White House with her defeated rival Bernie Sanders.…

A Belgian court has approved the transfer of a key suspect in the Paris terror attacks claimed by the self-styled Islamic State militant group to France.  But the process could take time due…

Former investment banker, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, was on track to become Peru’s next president after a near-final vote tally gave him a slim lead in the tightest election in decades, although his…

Venezuelan lawmaker Julio Borges was bloodied while trying to enter a heavily secured government building in Caracas. He accused pro-government gangs of attacking him with pipes, stones and…

US President Barack Obama has approved giving the US military greater ability to accompany and enable Afghan forces battling a resilient Taliban insurgency, in a move to assist them more…

A car bomb attack by Kurdish militants on a police station in southeastern Turkey killed three people and wounded more than 30 on Wednesday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said, a day after a bomb…

China said on Wednesday the Philippines has ignored a proposal for a regular talks mechanism over maritime issues, as it repeated that its door was always open to bilateral talks with Manila on…

Russia is building an army base near its border with Ukraine, the latest in a chain of new military sites along what the Kremlin sees as its frontline in a growing confrontation with NATO.

Hillary Clinton has won enough delegates to lead the Democrats in the race for the White House. But Senator Bernie Sanders has vowed to take his campaign all the way to the Democratic convention…

Five cyclists were killed and another four hurt in a hit-and-run incident in the US state of Michigan, police say. The cyclists were struck by a pickup truck that was seen being driven erratically…

North Korea has restarted production of plutonium fuel, a senior US State Department official said on Tuesday, showing that it plans to pursue its nuclear weapons program in defiance of…

Global violence has reached its highest level in the last 25 years. That’s despite a new ranking showing that the world would be growing more peaceful, if it weren’t for conflicts in the Middle…

Euroskepticism is on the rise across Europe, new research has suggested, with little more than two weeks to go before Britons decide whether to remain within the EU.

Nonetheless, the Pew…

Police in Papua New Guinea fired gunshots on Wednesday to quell a student protest demanding the prime minister’s resignation, the government said. It reported several injuries but denied reports…

A fleet of US, Japanese and Indian warships will hold a large-scale joint naval exercise over eight days from Friday in the Western Pacific, close to a Japanese island chain, part of which China…

Non-EU migrants who have illegally entered an EU member state should not face detention on those grounds, the European Court of Justice has found.

Migrants staying illegally should instead…

A car bomb ripped through a police bus in central Istanbul during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, killing 11 people and wounding 36 near the main tourist district, a major university and the…