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French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron launched what he called a “Great March” on Saturday, a door-to-door campaign across France to collect voters’ grievances ahead of the 2017 presidential…

The World Health Organization has rejected a call to move or postpone this summer’s Rio Olympic Games over the Zika outbreak. It said this would “not significantly alter” the spread of the virus,…

The US military on Saturday announced a 30-day period of mourning at its bases on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, where the killing of a woman has reignited resentment of the heavy US…

The self-styled Islamic State militant forces have seized several Syrian villages near Turkey, although the group is losing territory near Raqqa and Fallujah, where an IS commander was killed.

A vintage World War Two aircraft has crashed in Hudson River between New York and New Jersey. The plane—a single-seater P-47 Thunderbolt—went down 3.2 km south of George Washington Bridge. Divers…

On his first trip to a European Union country this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday sharply criticized western policy toward Moscow, describing a newly expanded US missile defense…

Former Argentine junta leader, Reynaldo Bignone, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes committed under Operation Condor—a conspiracy between South America’s dictators in the 1970s.…

German ministers have said the EU will not lift visa requirements for Turkish citizens, if Ankara fails to meet the requirements.

This comes despite threats from the Turkish President Recep…

Supporters and opponents of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump have clashed in the city of San Diego in California.

Police declared a gathering outside the city’s convention…

Experts following the disappearance of MH370 say it is likely that a new piece of debris found on a Mozambique beach came from the missing plane.

A reader contacted the BBC on Thursday to…

Search teams looking for the flight recorders of the EgyptAir plane have picked up a radio signal from an emergency locator transmitter, Egyptian investigators say.

This could help narrow…

As many as 30 migrants may have drowned when their boat sank off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the European Union’s anti-trafficking naval operation said, a day after another boat capsized in…

Riot police have used tear gas to disperse protesters in the French capital during demonstrations against labor reforms. The prime minister has said he’s open to “improvements” to the bill but won…

At a stroke, the US and Vietnam have complicated the strategic outlook for China over the disputed South China Sea.

As US President Barack Obama marked one of his last trips to Asia by the…

The UN’s Syria envoy says there won’t be a new round of Syria talks for at least another two to three weeks. A flare in fighting and difficulties delivering aid have dashed hopes for a speedy…

South Korea’s Navy fired warning shots on Friday after a North Korean patrol boat and fishing boat crossed the disputed sea border off the west coast of the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s…

The US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has reached the number of delegates needed to secure the party’s presidential nomination.

In North Dakota on Thursday, he thanked 15…

Barack Obama became the first incumbent US president to visit Hiroshima on Friday, laying a wreath at the site of the world’s first atomic bombing in a gesture Tokyo and Washington hope will…

An engine fire broke out on a Korean Air jet about to take off from a Tokyo airport on Friday, and seven people may have been injured, an official said. Firefighters put out the blaze within the…

Lawmakers have agreed on a draft law to assimilate asylum seekers into the country’s culture and economy. While the state will provide aid, migrants are expected to show eagerness to become a part…

A Swedish lower court upheld on Wednesday the arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, saying the stay at Ecuador’s London embassy did not equal detention. Assange, 44, is wanted by…

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s election agenda focusing on jobs and growth is at risk of being hijacked by the country’s harsh immigration policy and controversial network of…

Almost half of EU countries, including Germany, has contributed to Egypt’s crackdown on dissent, Amnesty International said in a report.

The human rights group has called on the bloc to end…

An Afghan official says a suicide bomber has struck a vehicle carrying court employees in Kabul, killing 10 people. Najib Danish, the Interior Ministry’s deputy spokesman, said the bomber, who was…

The debate over whether US President Barack Obama should apologize to Japanese survivors of America’s atomic bombings in World War II made Terumi Tanaka think: What about his own government?