International

Panama has agreed to transfer 3,800 Cubans hoping to reach the United States to a town in northern Mexico.

The Cubans have been stranded in Panama for months, hoping to reach the US under a…

Canadian officials showed some optimism on Sunday they were beginning to get on top of the country’s most destructive wildfire in recent memory, as favorable weather helped firefighters and winds…

A car bomb killed at least two police officers in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Monday in a suicide attack on the city’s traffic police headquarters, police said. Three others were wounded…

A foul-mouthed, crime-busting mayor is the man to beat in Monday’s presidential election in the Philippines as voters weary of poverty, corruption and insurgencies in the hinterlands look for a…

Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has accused neighboring Chile of threatening his country by establishing a military base close to their border.

 Morales said the base about 15 km from…

People in Lebanon have voted in municipal elections amid tight security and a reportedly low turnout. Major protests following a months-long trash crisis have shaken the Lebanese political…

An outspoken critic of militant groups, Khurram Zaki, has been killed in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Activists say that selective military operations against the port city’s liberal parties are…

Turkish shelling killed 55 militants of the self-styled Islamic State group in northern Syria on Saturday evening, military sources said, in retaliation for weeks of rocket attacks on a Turkish…

Two buses and a fuel tanker have collided on a major highway in Afghanistan killing 73 people, a health ministry spokesman said.

More than 50 other people injured in the accident have…

Gideon Levy, the deeply inspiring, admired and much hated columnist on Haaretz newspaper, has written an outraged attack on the 83 US senators who urged [President Barack] Obama in this…

Schools in Kuwait witnessed 110 serious crimes of various kinds, including one attempted murder, over the course of the most recent full school year (2014-15).

Mexico has transferred the convicted drug lord, Joaquin Guzman, to a prison close to the border with the US.

Known as “El Chapo”, he was taken to a prison near Ciudad Juarez, across the…

Australia’s prime minister on Sunday officially called a July 2 election and put economic management at the forefront of his campaign to win a second three-year term for his conservative coalition…

Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre have been freed and will fly back home after 10 months in captivity. The three journalists went missing while working in the northern city of…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country will not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed by others with nuclear arms and is willing to normalize ties with states that had…

Gunman attacked and killed at least eight police officials in a Cairo suburb, officials announced in the early hours of Sunday. The officers were all travelling in a police vehicle in Helwan, just…

An Egyptian court on Saturday sought the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged with endangering national security by leaking state secrets and documents to Qatar.

The…

A temporary truce in Syria's second city Aleppo has been extended for another 72 hours as clashes raged further south. International condemnation continues to mount over deadly airstrikes on a…

The anonymous source behind the leak of the Panama Papers has spoken for the first time, offering to help law authorities make prosecutions in return for immunity.

In a 1,800-word…

A day after his prime minister resigned, Turkey’s president has spoken out against the EU’s demands for changes to terror laws and said Turkey urgently needs a new constitution and a presidential…

Sadiq Khan became London’s first Muslim mayor on Saturday, as voters rejected attempts to taint him with links to extremism and handed a decisive victory to the bus driver’s son from south London…

North Korea may be preparing to carry out a fifth nuclear test in the near future judging by commercial satellite images of the country’s nuclear test site taken on May 5, a US think tank said on…

The only land convoy evacuating the Canadian city of Fort McMurray has been disrupted due to 60-meter flames flanking the road, officials say. Parts of the city in the province of Alberta have…

The United States will endorse a tougher tone with Israel in an upcoming international report that takes the regime to task over settlements, demolitions and property seizures on land the…

A UN envoy has said more than 50 mass graves have so far been found in parts of Iraq that were previously controlled by self-styled Islamic State terrorist group.

Jan Kubis told the UN…