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President Evo Morales of Bolivia has narrowly lost a referendum to allow him to stand for a fourth term in office, exit polls suggest. One poll suggests 52.3% voted against the proposal to amend…

A baby at the center of an asylum row in Australia has been released from hospital into community detention. But the government says baby Asha will be sent to a camp on Nauru Island once she is…

The United States rejected a North Korean proposal to discuss a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War because it did not address denuclearization on the peninsula, the State Department said…

At least 46 people were killed in twin car bomb blasts that hit Syria’s Homs on Sunday in one of the deadliest such attacks in the city in five years of civil war, a monitoring group said, and…

An unmanned American aircraft crashed at an airfield in southern Afghanistan less than three months after an identical drone went down in November, a US Air Force spokesman said on Sunday.

The Indian capital Delhi is facing a severe water crisis after a key supply was cut during protests over jobs. Demonstrators from the Jat community in the neighboring state of Haryana damaged…

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday a "provisional agreement" has been reached on a ceasefire in Syria's five-year civil war. Kerry, who spoke alongside Jordanian Foreign Minister…

Heavy clashes in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi have left at least 14 people dead and 32 wounded, medical officials said on Saturday.

Five years on from toppling Muammar Gaddafi, the…

At least seven people have been killed in a series of apparently random shootings in the Michigan county of Kalamazoo, police said.

Five people were killed in a restaurant and two at a car…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday called on the United States to give “unconditional support” in the fight against Syrian Kurdish militants, illustrating growing tension between…

The people of Bolivia go to the polls on Sunday in a referendum to decide whether President Evo Morales may stand for a third term. The country’s first president of indigenous origin faces a tough…

Long-time Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni was on Saturday declared the winner of the country’s disputed presidential election, but his main rival rejected the results as fraudulent and called for…

The Central African Republic’s electoral commission has declared ex-premier Faustin Archange Touadera winner of last week’s presidential election runoff vote. He inherits a country wracked by…

Fiji was assessing the damage on Sunday after one of the most powerful storms recorded in the southern hemisphere tore through the Pacific island nation, flattening remote villages and killing at…

Donald Trump has won the South Carolina primary in the Republican race for president, cementing his status as the man to beat for his party’s nomination. In the Democratic contest, Hillary Clinton…

Dozens of Al-Qaeda militants took control of the southern Yemeni town of Ahwar on Saturday, residents said, consolidating the group’s control over much of the region.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has given a leftist rebel group a stark warning about the future of peace talks being in held in Cuba.

French authorities are trying to force refugees in Calais to abandon their makeshift camp for more modern state facilities. But celebrities and rights advocates say the state is ill-prepared to…

North Korea fired several artillery rounds into the sea near a disputed maritime border with South Korea on Saturday, causing alarm among residents on a nearby island in the South, but the shells…

Uganda’s security forces on Saturday put the main opposition candidate under house arrest to prevent him from leading protests as the country awaited the results of a disputed election.

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Afghan forces have pulled out of bases in Musa Qala, a strategic district of the southern province of Helmand, after months of heavy fighting with Taliban insurgents, officials said on Saturday.…

The Pacific island nation of Fiji was hunkering down on Saturday as a formidable cyclone with winds of 300 km per hour bore down. Cyclone Winston was forecast to pass between the two main…

A new security dynamic is developing between the United States and China. The Pentagon has developed a so-called ‘Third Offset Strategy’ which is a new US endeavor to tap advanced technology to…

US President Barack Obama signed off on new, stricter sanctions against North Korea on Thursday. The broadened sanctions seek to punish the Asian nation for its nuclear weapons program.

Two suicide bombers hit a market in the north Cameroon village of Meme, killing at least 22 people, and two others targeted a school in a nearby town on Friday, a Cameroon governor said.