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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Monday of reviving a 2002 Arab peace initiative that offers Israel diplomatic recognition from Arab countries in return for a…

Brazil’s transparency chief has quit his post, after being accused of trying to derail an ongoing corruption probe before taking office. He is the second minister to resign in a week.

Survivors and human rights groups have praised the ruling by a special court in Senegal to sentence former Chad dictator Hissene Habre to life in prison. He was convicted of war crimes and crimes…

Iraqi forces started pushing into the city of Fallujah on Monday as a wave of bombings claimed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Baghdad and near the Iraqi capital killed at…

Rodrigo Duterte became the 16th president of the Philippines on Monday when a joint session of Congress declared him winner of a May 9 election, succeeding Benigno Aquino who steps down next month…

Federal police have temporarily halted all planes at the Cologne/Bonn airport in western Germany. Officers are looking for a person who reportedly bypassed security checks.

The police on…

Jordanian King Abdullah has dissolved parliament, paving the way for elections expected later this year. The polls are seen as a move toward more democracy, at least at face value.

Jordan’s…

The Japanese government said on Monday it was doing all it could to secure the release of a Japanese journalist being held hostage by an Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, after an apparent photograph…

The brother of a man killed alongside Afghan Taliban Chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike in southwest Pakistan has filed a report with police asking for his brother’s killing to be…

Five United Nations peacekeepers have been killed and another was seriously injured in an attack in central Mali.

The soldiers, who were from Togo, were travelling in the Mopti region when…

Servicemen from the US-led coalition were seen near the frontline of a new offensive in northern Iraq launched on Sunday by Kurdish Peshmerga forces that aims to retake a handful of villages from…

An armed squad has killed 11 people in Venezuela, including a Colombian national and three minors, according to the Attorney General’s office. The impoverished country is descending into violence…

Real Madrid’s Champions League triumph has been marred by an attack on the club’s fans in Iraq. It’s the second time in recent weeks that fans have been targeted by extremists.

A suicide…

Huge crowds took to the streets of Istanbul to celebrate 563 years since the Ottoman siege that conquered the city.

In a speech, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used the occasion to condemn…

Seventeen people have died in a fire at a building housing elderly people in a village near Ukraine's capital Kiev.

The fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday in a two-story building…

Iraqi government forces have made gains in their offensive to drive the self-styled Islamic State militants from Fallujah—one of the country’s two major cities controlled by IS.

The nearby…

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim’s government on Sunday won a vote of confidence in parliament as well as approval for his legislative program, parliament speaker, Ismail Kahraman, said.

Venezuela’s opposition and top government officials said on Saturday they met with a group of mediators in the Dominican Republic to lay the groundwork for a dialogue amid a political standoff and…

I’m getting a bit tired of reading about the “US-backed alliance of Syrian militias” and their advance against Isis [another acronym used for the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group].

Senior Conservative Party members in Britain have intensified their attacks on Prime Minister David Cameron with an open letter accusing him of misleading the public over immigration.

A bill legalizing medically-assisted suicide in Canada strikes the right balance between defending fundamental freedoms and protecting against abuses, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on…

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has held emergency talks about the country’s energy supplies, as blockades continue at fuel depots.

French workers have been striking against planned…

A flotilla of ships saved 668 migrants on Saturday from smugglers’ boats in distress in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, Italian authorities said, bringing the week’s total of…

French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to mark the 100th anniversary of the battle of Verdun, the longest battle during World War One. Hundreds of thousands of…

Egyptian authorities hired a deep ocean survey and recovery company to join the hunt for wreckage of the EgyptAir jet that went down over the eastern Mediterranean last week, as new satellite…