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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad described the cessation of hostilities in force since Saturday as a "glimmer of hope" and accused the opposition of violating the agreement intended to halt nearly…

Germany’s upper house is arguing before the court that the fringe party’s manifesto is “essentially identical” to Adolf Hitler’s platform. Germany has not closed down a political party in more…

Demolition teams are due to return to the French port of Calais to dismantle more makeshift shelters in the migrant camp known as the “Jungle”. Overnight, riot police fired tear gas at migrants…

Burundi officials have discovered a mass grave with around 30 corpses in the nation’s capital of Bujumbura, the city mayor said. The police suspects opponents of politically motivated killing.…

Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse says he will not back Republican frontrunner Donald Trump for president, the highest-ranked elected party member to do so. He says he is “frustrated and saddened” and…

At least 40 people were killed by a suicide bomber at a funeral in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala while a suicide blast at a security checkpoint in Baghdad’s western outskirts killed eight…

Myanmar will announce presidential nominations on March 10, the speaker of its upper house of parliament, Mahn Win Khaing Than, said on Tuesday, advancing the original date by a week, as a lengthy…

British Defense Minister Michael Fallon has told the parliament a team of 20 troops are heading to Tunisia to stop illegal border entry from Libya.

The West is concerned the self-styled…

Dozens of Russian warplanes sat idle on Tuesday on the tarmac at this Russian airbase in Syria on the fourth day of a ceasefire brokered by Moscow and Washington.

The apparent lull in…

Europe cannot allow Greece to fall into “chaos”, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says, amid sharp divisions among members over the migrant crisis. Austria and several Balkan countries have…

FORMER Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has quit the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), part of the ruling Barisan National coalition.

One of Pope Francis’ top advisers acknowledged he had heard that an Australian Catholic school teacher who serially abused students might be involved in child abuse in the 1970s.

However,…

A US student who was arrested in North Korea has appeared on state media admitting to trying to steal a piece of propaganda from a hotel.

In his first appearance since his arrest last month…

Six cases of the mutilation and murder of children as “good luck” sacrifices were reported during the recent Ugandan elections, a children’s charity said.

A twin suicide bombing claimed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group killed 70 people in a Shia district of Baghdad on Sunday in the deadliest attack inside the capital this year, as…

Swiss voters in a referendum have rejected a proposal by a nationalist party to automatically deport foreigners who commit even low-level crimes. The move was welcomed by human rights groups. The…

Moscow blamed the violations, including an attack on the Turkish border, on moderate rebels and “terrorist organizations”.

Saudi Arabia says Syrian or Russian warplanes have been active in…

The Nigerian government has removed nearly 24,000 workers from its payroll after an audit revealed they did not exist, the Finance Ministry has said. The move has enabled a monthly saving of…

Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Iraqi army and police posts on the western outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least 12 security forces and seizing positions in a grain silo and a…

People in Switzerland are on course to reject a plan to automatically expel foreigners who commit minor crimes, early projections suggest. The proposal has been put forward by the right-wing Swiss…

Pope Francis on Sunday urged European countries struggling with the migrant crisis to “share the burden fairly”, amid growing divisions on how to handle the flow of people fleeing poverty and war…

The founder and former leader of France’s far-right National Front party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, has expressed his support for controversial Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump in the 2016 US…

Cameroonian and Nigerian forces have freed several hundred hostages in a border town held by Boko Haram, including young girls who were being trained as suicide bombers, the commander of…

Hillary Clinton has secured a big win over Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary, the latest battleground in the race to be Democratic presidential nominee.

Victory for Clinton was…

Islamic State militants launched an assault on a Kurdish-controlled town on Syria’s border with Turkey on Saturday, prompting airstrikes by the US-led coalition to drive them back.