International

The number of people seeking asylum in the European Union in 2015 reached 1,255,600—more than double that of the previous year, new figures suggest.

Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans topped the…

Cuba and the European Union on Friday advanced ever closer to a new bilateral agreement that would replace a unilateral policy imposed by the Europeans 20 years ago.

Cuba’s lead negotiator…

No charges have been filed against former president Lula, but there are allegations of bribery and embezzlement. At some $2 billion, it is one of the biggest corruption scandals in Brazilian…

The European Union said on Friday it had added 16 people and 12 companies to its sanctions list following North Korea’s latest nuclear test and rocket launch. The UN unanimously voted to expand…

US Republican Ben Carson has officially ended his campaign for the presidential nomination in the 2016 election. Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, had been a frontrunner but his campaign stalled in…

Mourners at a memorial for murdered Honduran activist Berta Caceres have called for justice. There has been international condemnation of her assassination, which followed a series of death…

Hours after a court placed the Zaman newspaper under the management of trustees, police used tear gas and water cannon to raid the country’s largest-circulation newspaper.

Police…

Spain’s Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez has failed for the second time in a week to form a government after his proposal was defeated by parliament.

In a 219-131 vote, MPs rejected Sanchez’s…

Turkey is under growing pressure to consider a major escalation in migrant deportations from Greece, a top European Union official said on Thursday, amid preparations for a highly anticipated…

Princess Cristina has said she knew nothing of her husband’s business dealings, amid charges the couple had engaged in fraud. Her trial has been a major stain on the Spanish royal family’s…

A car bomb and rocket attack by Kurdish militants killed two police officers and wounded 35 people in the southeastern Turkish province of Mardin on Friday.

The attack was carried out…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has taken control of six of the eight major dams in Syria and Iraq. It is systemically exercising control by using water.

The decline of IS now…

Japan’s Premier Shinzo Abe has agreed to suspend construction work required for the relocation of a controversial US military base in Okinawa. Abe said he was accepting a court-mediated settlement…

China’s defense budget this year is likely to rise at its slowest pace since 2010, in line with the decelerating economy, by a much lower figure than had been expected, although it probably does…

Presidential contender Donald Trump has come under attack from his rivals at a Republican debate, after a day in which the party’s veteran politicians urged voters to desert him.

The…

Kim Jong Un has intensified his rhetoric regarding his country’s nuclear weapons arsenal. His comments follow a recent UN vote to impose unprecedented sanctions on Pyongyang.

Kim said on…

Brazil’s federal police detained former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for questioning on Friday in an anti-corruption and money laundering operation and said illegal gains had financed…

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump have each won the most states on the biggest day of the race for the US presidential nominations.

The count is still on but Trump has so…

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, triggering a tsunami alert in a region where an undersea tremor killed hundreds of thousands in 2004.

A UN Security Council vote on a resolution to dramatically expand sanctions on North Korea after its recent nuclear test and satellite launch has been delayed to Wednesday after Russia negotiated…

The United Nations will delay the next round of Syria peace talks by two days to allow the cessation of hostilities in force since Saturday to take hold, UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said.…

Spain’s Pparliament is due to begin debating whether to allow the Socialist party to form a new government. The Socialists (PSOE) came second in December’s inconclusive elections and have until…

Al-Qaeda’s leaders were increasingly worried about spies in their midst, drones in the air and secret tracking devices reporting their movements as the US-led war against them ground on, documents…

More than a dozen humanitarian organizations on Tuesday accused authorities of brutally evicting migrants from their makeshift dwellings in a sprawling camp in northern France, as fiery protests…

Continuous violence has left at least 670 Iraqis dead in February, of whom about two-thirds were civilians, the United Nations said.