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Hundreds have flocked to the US Capitol to protest against the corrupting role of money in politics, prompting mass arrests. Rising inequality has increasingly become a political issue ahead of…

China expressed anger on Tuesday after foreign ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies said they strongly opposed provocation in the East and South China Seas where China is locked in…

Martin Schulz, the president of the European Parliament, has said the EU is on an open-ended “slippery slope”.

The silent majority underestimated the danger, he warned, and called on EU…

Secret agents from several countries, including intermediaries of the CIA, reportedly used the services of Mossack Fonseca law firm to hide their schemes. The claims are the latest in the Panama…

A US Navy officer with access to sensitive US intelligence faces espionage charges over accusations he passed state secrets, possibly to China and Taiwan, a US official told Reuters on Sunday.

John Kerry has become the highest-ranking US official to visit the memorial to victims of the Hiroshima bombing. At a meeting in the city, G7 leaders agreed to push for a “world without nuclear…

Rescue officials on Monday sifted through a Hindu temple in southern India where at least 110 people died when a fireworks display—an unauthorized pyrotechnic display that went horribly wrong—…

US President Barack Obama has said failing to prepare for the aftermath of the ousting of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was the worst mistake of his presidency.

Obama was answering a series…

Reports are emerging of the killing of Syrian Christians by the self-styled Islamic State militants in the town of al-Qaryatain. The town was retaken by Russian-backed Syrian forces and their…

The United Nations special envoy for Yemen welcomed the start of a tentative truce in the country’s year-old conflict on Monday and said peace talks due to start later this month would require…

Keiko Fujimori, daughter of an ex-president Alberto Fujimori jailed for massacres, has won the first-round vote in elections that could make her Peru’s first female leader.

The 40-year-old…

Two senior North Korean officials, including an army colonel specializing in espionage against the South, defected to South Korea last year, the Seoul government said on Monday.

The western Sudanese region of Darfur is to vote on its administrative status, 13 years after the start of a conflict that has left 300,000 dead. The referendum over whether to remain as five…

Prime Minister David Cameron took the unusual step on Sunday of publishing his tax records to try to end days of questions about his personal wealth caused by the mention of his late father’s…

G7 foreign ministers on Sunday began two days of talks in Hiroshima, with John Kerry's visit to the atom-bombed city --the first-ever by a US secretary of state -- overshadowing the broader agenda…

A disused airliner has fallen from a crane onto a wall in southern India. The Air India Airbus A320 was hoisted 20m above the ground while being moved at Begumpet Airport in Hyderabad to the…

US Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that Afghanistan’s national unity government could continue beyond September, a step that could irk the opposition even as he attempts to avert a brewing…

Four women and a child have died after their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos.

They are thought to be the first deaths in the area since a new deal with Turkey went into force on…

Peru’s communist guerrillas have killed two soldiers and a civilian in an attack in a remote coca-growing region.

The South American country is voting to elect a new president and the…

Bernie Sanders has won the latest stage in the battle for the Democratic nomination in the US presidential poll by securing victory in Wyoming. The state’s 14 delegates will be awarded…

A massive fire broke out during a fireworks display in a Hindu temple in south India early Sunday, killing more than 100 people and injuring at least 250 others, a top official said.

The Philippine Army has suffered heavy losses during a daylong battle against Abu Sayyaf militants, military officials said.

The terrorist group is known for kidnapping foreigners in the…

Belgian prosecutors say a man arrested on Friday has admitted being the “man in the hat” seen with the bombers who attacked a Brussels airport.

They say Mohamed Abrini told investigators he…

Al Qaeda militants in southern Yemen on Saturday seized and executed 15 soldiers loyal to Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, local officials and residents said.

The soldiers were detained by militants…

US Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan on Saturday to show support for the government and to try to defuse a political crisis fueled in part by a national unity…