International

The parents of 43 missing students who disappeared in September 2014 accused Mexico’s government on Monday of lying to them, planting evidence and not adequately investigating the case.

Egyptian security forces in Cairo on Monday dispersed demonstrators protesting Egypt’s decision to hand over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, reported state-owned news outlet al-…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned the killing of a Canadian hostage kidnapped by militants in the Philippines.

John Ridsdel, 68, was taken from a tourist resort with…

Democrat Clinton and Republican Trump hold sizable leads in all five contests, according to recent polling.

Trump’s rivals have already shifted focus away from the north-east. Ted Cruz and…

Ukraine is commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Global donors have used the occasion to pledge additional funds to help keep the area safe for generations to come…

President Barack Obama spent the past four days in Europe visiting his two oldest and closest foreign political allies, spending considerable political capital on issues close to their…

Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza has condemned the killing of a senior army officer who was shot along with his wife and bodyguard in an attack that also wounded their child in the central…

The White House will likely make a decision by June on whether it will release some classified material withheld from the public 9/11 Commission Report, a former US senator who co-chaired the…

Donald Trump’s two rivals for the Republican party’s presidential nomination have announced they will now coordinate strategies against him.

Ted Cruz will cut campaigning in the Oregon and…

A car bomb on the outskirts of the Sayeda Zeinab district south of Damascus, home to Syria’s holiest Shia Muslim shrine, killed at least six people on Monday, a monitoring group said, the third…

Four more people have been found dead after last week’s explosion at a petrochemical plant in southeastern Mexico, raising the death toll to 32, state oil giant Pemex and Mexican plastic pipe…

President Barack Obama announced on Monday the biggest expansion of US ground troops in Syria since the civil war there began, saying he would dispatch an extra 250 special forces soldiers to…

Egypt’s President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi has urged citizens to defend the state and its institutions ahead of planned anti-government protests.

In a televised speech, Sisi said attempts to…

A day after North Korea’s foreign minister said his country is ready to halt its nuclear tests if the United States suspends its annual military exercises with South Korea, President Barack Obama…

The Kurdish rebel PKK movement has declared that it is ready to intensify its fight against Turkey because Ankara is trying to make it surrender.

Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Cemil…

Austria’s anti-immigration Freedom Party has secured victory in the first round of presidential elections.

Exit polls show Norbert Hofer of the FPO winning 36.7% of the votes in a landmark…

Polls have opened in Serbia in a parliamentary election seen as a de facto referendum on whether the country should seek EU membership. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic called the vote two years…

After weeks stranded at a closed border in northern Greece, migrants and refugees are seeking out new, irregular routes to get into Macedonia, clambering through forests and over hills under the…

President Barack Obama has ruled out deploying US ground troops in Syria and says military efforts alone cannot solve the country’s problems.

“It would be a mistake for the United States,…

Africa's longest-serving leader, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, is set for reelection as the tiny nation of Equatorial Guinea goes to the polls on Sunday.

Initially scheduled to be held…

US President Barack Obama said a trade deal between Britain and the United States could take five to 10 years to negotiate if Britain votes to leave the European Union at a June 23 referendum.…

White House presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, said many of his primary losses to fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton took place because “poor people don’t vote”, in interview excerpts released…

A huge manhunt has intensified in the US state of Ohio where police are investigating the deaths of eight members of the same family.

They were all shot in the head in four different…

Environmental activists, consumer protection groups and aid organizations demonstrated on Saturday against the proposed Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) accord,…

The outcome is unclear as Austrians vote for their next president. But one thing is nearly certain: For the first time, the winner is unlikely to be a candidate supported by either of the two…