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Three gunmen opened fire overnight on a cafe in northern Iraq where young men had gathered at the start of the weekend holiday, killing at least 12 and wounding 25, police and hospital sources…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says he is not demanding “any apology from anybody” after UK Prime Minister David Cameron labelled his country “fantastically corrupt”.

Speaking at an…

Free-travel and legal disputes have called an EU-Turkey refugee deal into question for politicians on both sides of the table. If the agreement fails, officials in Ankara threatened to reopen the…

A car bomb claimed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in a Shia Muslim district of Baghdad killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 60 others on Wednesday, Iraqi police and…

Japanese are welcoming US President Barack Obama’s decision to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima and those interviewed on Wednesday said they are not seeking an apology.

They…

Impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff have put a spotlight on endemic corruption in the ranks of Brazil’s lawmakers.

At least 10 people were killed and 23 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew up his car near the house of a pro-government militia commander in the province of Nangarhar, a provincial…

Bernie Sanders has won the West Virginia primary in the Democratic race for the presidential nomination, US media project.

The Vermont senator still trails Hillary Clinton in the overall…

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Tuesday became the first foreign dignitary to meet Sadiq Khan following his election as mayor of London, in a brief tete-a-tete at St Pancras Station.

A militant leader has been hanged in Bangladesh for crimes during the war of independence from Pakistan in 1971.

Motiur Rahman Nizami, 73, was executed early on Wednesday (local time), Law…

Within weeks of the September 2014 disappearance of 43 college students, Mexican authorities had rounded up scores of suspects and announced they had solved the case.

Warring parties in Yemen reached a preliminary agreement on Tuesday to release all prisoners beginning within 20 days, sources at the UN-backed peace talks in Kuwait said.

The agreement is…

A German national stabbed four passengers at a train station near Munich early on Tuesday, killing one man and injuring three, in an attack police said appeared to have a militant motive.

US President Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month—the first serving president to travel to the Japanese city, which was hit by a US nuclear attack in 1945.  The visit will be part of…

The Syrian Army has extended a truce around the besieged city of Aleppo, which Moscow and Washington have vowed to extend across the whole country.

Maverick anti-crime candidate Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte has won the Philippine presidential elections, following the withdrawal of his opponents.

Although the official result has not yet…

An airstrike by a US-led coalition killed a senior official of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq last week, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday.

A US navy warship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea on Tuesday, a US Department of Defense official said, days after China warned criticism of its claim would rebound like a…

A global network of journalists has published the names of thousands of offshore companies mentioned in the leaked documents known as the Panama Papers. The group said the records should be “…

The Brazilian Senate has vowed to vote on the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff despite a ruling that a vote in the lower house was flawed.

Senate Speaker Renan Calheiros rejected the…

Hundreds of thousands of North Koreans celebrated the country’s newly completed ruling-party congress on Tuesday with a massive civilian parade featuring floats bearing patriotic slogans and…

Presidential hopeful Donald Trump has said the newly elected mayor of London would be an “exception” to his proposed ban on Muslims travelling to the US. Because of his faith, Sadiq Khan had…

Russian armed forces paraded in central Moscow on Monday to mark the 71st anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, displaying some of Russia's latest military hardware…

BBC correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes and his team are were expelled from North Korea after being detained over their reporting. The correspondent, producer Maria Byrne and cameraman Matthew…

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann has resigned after losing the support of Social Democratic party colleagues.

Faymann came to power in 2008 but has faced criticism within his party since…