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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry have stated that there is progress in Syria peace talks after a meeting in Vienna, also saying that the powers there…

Iraqi security forces have fully liberated a key town in the western province of Anbar from the grip of the self-styled Islamic state terrorist group.

The Anbar Border Guard Command said…

A twin bombing killed a Pakistani police officer and wounded nine people in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, police said. A roadside explosion first hit on the outskirts of the city…

Venezuela has officially declared a state of emergency, giving the government wide-ranging powers to combat its deep economic crisis. The new decree allows the Venezuelan army to distribute and…

The European Union is ready to stick to its migration deal with Turkey but Ankara should not seek to change the rules after they had already been agreed, a top EU official said on Tuesday.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is hoping to keep his campaign alive with strong showings in the Kentucky and Oregon primaries.

Frontrunner Hillary Clinton is almost…

Australian counter-terrorism police on Tuesday carried out raids across Melbourne connected with five men accused of planning to travel to Syria to join the self-styled Islamic State terrorist…

Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to resume a dialogue to end fighting over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The presidents of the two countries held talks with US, Russian and…

North Korea has named a career diplomat and ex-nuclear envoy with broad experience in negotiating with rivals South Korea and the United States as its new foreign minister, according to a…

The United States and other world powers have said they are ready to provide weapons to Libya’s unity government. The West is looking to shore up the government to fight militants and prevent a…

A top ranked Chinese official began a rare visit to Hong Kong on Tuesday vowing to listen to residents’ political concerns, seeking to address increasingly strident calls in the city for greater…

Two bombs went off in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 40, police and medical sources said. A blast in a marketplace in the northern district of Al-Shaab…

The Nigerian Army has arrested several suspected members of a militant group called the "Niger Delta Avengers", thought to be behind recent attacks on oil pipelines in the south. The country's oil…

Twenty nations are gathered in Vienna to discuss the expanding threat presented by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Libya.

Libya's Government of National Accord is…

Turkey’s state-run news agency said four people were wounded overnight when a homemade device exploded in Istanbul. Citing security sources, Anadolu Agency said on Monday the explosion was under…

Thousands of demonstrators from Afghanistan’s Hazara minority marched through Kabul on Monday to protest against the planned route of a multimillion-dollar power transmission line, posing a major…

South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold their first joint military training next month focused on cooperating to detect signs of missile launches from North Korea and trace missile…

Donald Trump has said he is unlikely to have a good relationship with David Cameron because the British prime minister cast the US presidential candidate as “divisive, stupid and wrong” for…

Early returns have given presidential incumbent Danilo Medina a strong lead in the Dominican Republic.

The election is seen as a referendum on a ruling party that has won four of the last…

Police in Colombia say they have seized their largest ever domestic haul of illegal drugs—nearly eight tons of cocaine.

The drugs had been hidden on a banana plantation near the…

Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his central campaign pledge to reintroduce capital punishment. The penalty would be enforced for a wide range of crimes, including drugs,…

Revelations from a CIA operative indicate that the American spy agency was behind the arrest of Nelson Mandela in 1962.

Mandela was perceived to be a risk to the US due to alleged ties with…

Boris Johnson says the problem is a lack of underlying respect for European-wide governance. Critics slammed his "hysterical" comments, but polls show the public is evenly divided.

The…

A suicide bomber killed at least 25 new recruits inside a police compound in the southern Yemeni city of Mukalla on Sunday in an attack claimed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group,…

US Secretary of State John Kerry met Saudi Arabia's King Salman in Jeddah on Sunday to discuss the fragile truce in Syria, before broader talks with Russia and other countries in Vienna on…