International

Rescuers found four survivors on Thursday in the rubble of an apartment building that collapsed six days ago amid heavy rains in the Kenyan capital, raising hopes that more people might still be…

Vote counting is underway after a series of regional elections across the UK.  In London, Sadiq Khan is expected to make history as the city’s first Muslim mayor. Preliminary results are…

Paul Ryan, second in line to the US presidency, has said he is not ready to back presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.

Israeli tank fire has killed a Palestinian woman in the Gaza Strip, Palestinians say, in some of the worst clashes between Israeli forces and Hamas resistance fighters since 2014. The woman was…

A catastrophic wildfire that has forced all 88,000 residents to flee Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada, exploded tenfold in size on Thursday, cutting off evacuees in camps north of the city and…

North Korea is holding its most important political event in decades, where leader Kim Jong-un will cement his status and set out his vision.

Thousands of delegates are meeting for a…

Authorities have arrested a prominent Panama businessman and dismantled an empire of banking, real estate and retail businesses that the US says were part of a top worldwide money-laundering…

More than 35 airstrikes hit the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group’s de facto capital in Syria overnight, killing at least 13 people and wounding many in the city of Raqqa, the Syrian…

Spain’s political parties have passed the deadline to form a coalition government. The unprecedented stalemate stems from new groups Podemos and Ciudadanos breaking into a system usually dominated…

North Korea has started welcoming delegates from around the country to its first ruling party congress in 36 years, state media reported on Tuesday, as rival South Korea expressed concern that…

A fire destroyed about 50 shelters on Tuesday in a camp for internally displaced people in Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, a witness said. Camps in the area largely house members of the…

Turkey’s ruling AK Party and opposition lawmakers have brawled over changes to the constitution that could pave the way of prosecuting politicians. Multiple injuries were reported after political…

The UN has announced the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, to take place in Istanbul, to call for new aid funds. But fewer than half of the UN’s 193 member states have confirmed their…

The European Commission will give conditional approval for Turks to travel without visas to Europe’s passport-free Schengen area.

The move is part of a deal in which Turkey is taking back…

Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people, including Shia Muslim worshippers conducting an annual pilgrimage inside the capital, police and medical sources…

An American cruise ship is sailing to Cuba from the US, the first such trip in more than 50 years.

Attacks by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group have increased this year, particularly in Iraq and Syria, as the group responds to substantial territorial losses, a US-based analysis firm…

Iraqi protesters have announced their withdrawal from Baghdad’s Green Zone after storming parliament a day earlier. The protesters have vowed to return by the end of the week, if nothing changes…

Shelling by Turkish artillery and drones, which took off from southern Turkey, struck the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Syria on Sunday, killing 34 militants, the Turkish military…

Russia said on Sunday talks were taking place to include Aleppo in a temporary lull in fighting declared by the Syrian Army in some western parts of the country, a sign of intensified efforts to…

The hard-right manifesto adopted by Germany’s populist AfD party has been condemned by religious communities and trade unions.

A Muslim leader called it socially divisive and a Jewish…

Two police officers were killed and 23 people wounded in a car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep, the provincial governor and police sources said, in…

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered the arrest of activists who stormed parliament in Baghdad on Saturday.

The death toll from two car bombs claimed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Sunday rose to 32 and was expected to keep rising, police and…

A deadly US airstrike in Afghanistan last year that destroyed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders did not amount to a war crime but was caused by human error, equipment failure and other…