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Last month’s EU-Turkey deal on tackling the migrant flow has begun to produce results, a top EU official has said.

“We have seen a sharp reduction of the illegal migration flows,” European…

At least 12 people were killed on Saturday in two separate car bomb attacks in Baghdad targeting security forces, police sources said.

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group was…

North Korea fired what appeared to be a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) on Saturday off its east coast, South Korea said, amid concerns that it might conduct a nuclear test or a…

EU finance ministers endorsed a series of measures on Saturday to fight tax evading methods used by Europeans exposed by the Panama Papers scandal.

“The sense of urgency is definitely much…

US airstrikes aimed at the self-styled Islamic State militants killed 20 civilians between September and February in Iraq and Syria, the US military has admitted.

US Central Command…

Yemen’s warring factions held their first direct talks in a UN-backed peace process on Friday and will meet again despite failing to agree on an agenda, participants said.

The UN envoy,…

Suspected militants brutally murdered a university professor on Saturday in northwestern Bangladesh, a police official told reporters, the latest in a spate of attacks on liberal activists.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas has called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to talk openly about freedom of speech during her visit to Turkey. The visit is due, however, to focus on refugees.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff denounced her impeachment as a “coup” to an international audience on Friday and said she would appeal to the Mercosur bloc of South American nations for Brazil…

At least eight people have been killed in “execution-style killings” in four places near each other in rural Ohio. It is believed the victims—seven adults and one teenager—are from the same family…

The UN special envoy for Syria has vowed to take fragile peace talks into next week despite a walkout by the main armed opposition, a breakdown in a truce and signs that both sides are gearing up…

Trump’s team has said the candidate has merely been “projecting an image”, and that he’ll soon change. Their assurances come as Trump moves closer to clinching the Republican nomination.

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A Turkish court will try two of the country’s top journalists and four academics accused of signing a petition in cases highlighting the government’s crackdown on free speech.

Part of a coastal cycleway in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro collapsed, killing at least two people. Witnesses said five people were on the path when about 50 meters crumbled into the…

The death toll from an explosion that ripped through a petrochemical plant on Mexico’s southern Gulf coast is now 24, state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos reported.

Pemex raised the toll…

US President Barack Obama has arrived in Britain, where he has already entered into the debate about whether Britain should leave the EU.

Obama said the bloc magnified British influence…

Militants from the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group have been pushed out of the key eastern city of Derna, a rival group has said.

IS “have all left Derna; they have no presence…

A powerful earthquake measuring 6.0 Richter struck off Ecuador’s disaster-stricken coast on Thursday, as survivors of an earlier deadly quake that killed 587 people clamored for food, water and…

The Israeli ringleader in the killing of a Palestinian youth, abducted and burned to death in Jerusalem in 2014, has been convicted of his murder. A Jerusalem court found 31-year-old Yosef Haim…

US housing fell more than expected in March and permits for future home construction hit a one-year low, suggesting some cooling in the housing market in line with signs of a sharp slowdown in…

China's new special envoy for the Syria crisis will visit Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Russia to push for a peaceful solution of conflict there, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, the…

US President Barack Obama headed to Riyadh on Tuesday as a row lingers over a bill that could hold Saudi Arabia responsible for 9/11. The Saudi government has vowed to sell US assets if the…

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff vowed on Monday to fight impeachment tooth-and-nail in the Senate after a heavy defeat in the lower house of Congress raised the likelihood of an end to 13 years…

Searchers digging in a mountainous area of southern Japan where twin earthquakes triggered landslides found another body on Tuesday, raising the likely death toll to 45. Some 100,000 evacuees,…

Lutz Bachmann is set to appear in court over controversial comments he made about refugees.

The xenophobic Pegida party has gained traction recently, as Germany grapples with an influx of…