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The people of mainly Muslim Tajikistan are voting on a ban on religion-based parties, in a poll likely to strengthen the president’s power.

Emomali Rakhmon has ruled the ex-Soviet Central…

The EgyptAir jet, which crashed in the Mediterranean on Thursday, sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board, shortly before it disappeared off radar screens,…

Demonstrators took to the streets of Valparaiso during the president’s annual address to the nation. One person died in the ensuing violence. An elderly guard was killed in Chile on Saturday after…

US President Barack Obama on Sunday headed for his first visit to Vietnam, a trip aimed at sealing the transformation of an old enemy into a new partner to help counter China’s growing…

A new message purporting to come from the spokesman of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group calls on followers to launch attacks on the United States and Europe during the Muslim fasting…

The top US commander for the Middle East secretly visited Syria on Saturday, officials said.

General Joseph Votel, head of US Central Command, spent about 11 hours in northern Syria. He met…

Austrians have headed to the polls in a tight race between an anti-immigration Freedom Party candidate and a Green party-backed economics professor.

The election could result in the EU’s…

A city in India’s Rajasthan state has broken the country’s temperature records after registering 51 degrees Celsius, the highest since records began, the weather office says.

The new record…

Turkish lawmakers have voted to lift parliamentary immunity, as 138 members of parliament currently face investigation.

The move could push dozens of Kurdish deputies out of office and…

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has resigned, warning that Israel has been taken over by “dangerous and extreme elements”.

It comes as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to bring…

The massive Canadian wildfire that displaced thousands of people in Alberta has officially spread to neighboring Saskatchewan.

The fire is now spread over 4,830 square kilometers and has…

A second girl kidnapped alongside more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram nearly two years ago has been rescued, Nigeria’s army has said.

The first rescuee earlier met the country’s…

San Francisco’s Police Chief Greg Suhr has stepped down hours after a police officer shot and killed a young black woman driving a suspected stolen car.

 The resignation was announced…

Beijing demanded an end to US surveillance near China on Thursday after two of its fighter jets carried out what the Pentagon said was an “unsafe” intercept of a US military reconnaissance…

Tsai Ing-wen has been sworn in as the new president of Taiwan, becoming its first female leader and calling for “positive dialogue” with Beijing.

Tsai, seen as an unassuming but determined…

An EgyptAir jet carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean on Thursday in a crash that Egypt said may have been caused by a terrorist attack…

The man prosecutors believe is the sole survivor of the militant group that attacked Paris in November appeared in a French court for the first time on Friday, but refused to speak. Salah Abdeslam…

 Turkish warplanes hit Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) targets in southeast Turkey and northern Iraq, killing at least 10 fighters, security sources said on Wednesday.

Thousands of police were deployed across Hong Kong on Wednesday as a top-ranked Beijing official addressed an economic summit, with tensions high amid calls for greater autonomy in the Chinese-…

The US Senate approved legislation that would allow September 11 victims and their relatives to sue Saudi Arabia over its possible role in the 2001 attacks.

Senators unanimously approved…

China’s Defense Ministry on Wednesday dismissed reports that military drills off its southeast coast were directed at any target.

“It is routine arrangement to execute military drills in…

US Senator Bernie Sanders scored a decisive victory against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary in Oregon, boosting his argument for keeping his underdog campaign alive through the…

Morocco slammed the US State Department’s report on human rights in the North African kingdom as a list of inventions and lies.

The official MAP news agency on Tuesday quoted the Interior…

More than 150 people are feared dead after they were buried under two landslides in central Sri Lanka, disaster officials said on Wednesday.

Rescue workers recovered 19 bodies after the…

Protests were to take place across Venezuela on Wednesday against President Nicolas Maduro in the first challenge to sweeping powers he has decreed for police and soldiers under a state of…