International

Pope Francis has approved measures to sack bishops who mishandle child sexual abuse cases, a papal decree says.

Bishops who are “negligent” in dealing with priests committing abuse will be…

Keiko Fujimori aims to steer the rightwing populist movement she inherited from her disgraced father back into power in a runoff election for Peru’s presidency on Sunday, but the latest polls…

China rebuffed US pressure to curb its activity in the South China Sea on Sunday, restating its sovereignty over most of the disputed territory and saying it “has no fear of trouble”.

The Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime and urged citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug dealers who would resist arrest and fight back.

The Syrian Army has crossed the boundary of Raqqa province, home to the de facto capital of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, after a major Russian-backed offensive against the…

For seven years, the ethnic Tamil housewife has waited for news of a son who vanished near the frenzied end of Sri Lanka’s quarter-century-long civil war.

 After so much time, she has…

A media report says German President Joachim Gauck will not run for a second five-year term as the country’s head of state, citing health reasons and his age, according to the Berlin-based “Bild”…

Nations struggled on Friday to craft a viable new strategy for Mideast peace, failing to agree on a French proposal for an international conference that would bring together Israel and the…

An emergency committee “will meet shortly” to examine the impact of the virus on the summer games, the WHO chief has said.

Over 1.5 million people have been infected in Brazil, the country…

River Seine in Paris is at its highest level for more than 30 years, with floods forcing parts of the metro systems and major landmarks to close.

Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan has warned Germany of consequences if it passes an Armenian genocide resolution.

A French naval search vessel has picked up signals believed to originate from one of the black boxes of EgyptAir flight MS804 that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, the Egyptian…

Some Fort McMurray residents returned home for the first time, on Wednesday, after a huge wildfire displaced 90,000 people in northwest Canada.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said the…

In the hills east of Beit-ul-Moqaddas, overlooking the Palestinian city of Jericho and the Jordan Valley, stands a Jewish settlement whose red-tile roofs, neat gardens and brightly colored…

The world’s longest and deepest rail tunnel is to be officially opened in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work. The 57-km twin-bore Gotthard base tunnel will provide a high-…

The self-styled Islamic State fighters set up human shields to halt an Iraqi Army assault on the city of Fallujah on Tuesday, while the United Nations warned of peril for civilians trapped in the…

The US has warned that the Euro 2016 football championship being held in France next month could be a target of militant attacks.

“The large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer…

North Korean state media has hailed US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a “wise politician” who could be good for the North.

The editorial in DPRK Today said he was…

Bigger boats, with more people on board, are partly to blame for an increased death toll in the Mediterranean. Italian police have also picked up 16 alleged human traffickers at sea.

Militants from the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group have launched a dawn counter-attack, as Iraqi government troops push into the city of Fallujah.

A day after troops advanced…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan officially designated the religious movement of US-based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen a terrorist group and said he would pursue its members whom he accuses of…

Seventeen Indian soldiers have been killed in a massive fire at a military ammunition depot in western Maharashtra state, army officials say.

The fire in the depot at Pulgaon near Nagpur…

French railroad workers are to go on strike, as unions continue to protest against planned labor reforms. This is expected to further disrupt a transport network already suffering from a shortage…

A force that controls oil terminals in eastern Libya said it had captured the town of Ben Jawad from the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, pushing the militants back along a coastal strip…

A former tycoon wanted on allegations of embezzlement and fraud in Taiwan has died in a car accident in California, the island’s foreign ministry confirmed on Tuesday. He had been hiding for years…