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Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu blamed a Syrian Kurdish militia fighter working with Kurdish militants inside Turkey for a suicide car bombing that killed 28 people in the capital Ankara…

David Cameron’s negotiations with fellow European Union leaders spilled into a second day, as he pleaded for a deal on the UK’s membership of the bloc that he can sell to British voters.

Fighting at a United Nations compound sheltering people fleeing conflict in South Sudan has killed 18 people, including two Medicins Sans Frontieres workers, the international medical aid group…

Authorities in Iraq are trying to trace a small amount of radioactive material that has disappeared from a site in Basra. While the quantity of iridium is not enough for a nuclear bomb, it can…

The EU is to hold a special summit with Turkey on the migration crisis in early March, officials have announced.

“The EU-Turkey action plan is our priority,” European Council President…

US warplanes carried out airstrikes early on Friday morning in the western Libyan city of Sabratha, where the self-styled Islamic State militants operate, killing as many as 40 people.

A US…

Iraq has sentenced 40 men to death over the killing of up to 1,700 military recruits at a former US base in 2014. The Camp Speicher massacre was carried out by fighters from the self-styled…

The Russian Foreign Ministry said Russian and US military officials will take part in the first meeting on Friday of a working group to discuss implementation of a ceasefire in Syria, Russia’s…

Apple will contest a court order to help FBI investigators access data on the phone belonging to San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook. The company had been ordered to help the FBI circumvent…

Four US F-22 stealth fighters flew low over South Korea on Wednesday in a clear show of force against North Korea, a day after South Korea’s president warned of the North’s collapse amid a…

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been formally charged in a case relating to PR firm Bygmalion, which is accused of false accounting. The scandal could wreck his plans to contest the…

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday left open the possibility of resettlement in New Zealand for asylum-seekers facing repatriation to a detention camp in the tiny Pacific…

Republican Donald Trump will not be president because it’s a “serious job”, President Barack Obama has said.

“I continue to believe that Mr. Trump will not be president. And the reason is…

The Syrian government has approved access to seven besieged areas and UN convoys are expected to set off in days, the United Nations said on Tuesday after crisis talks in Damascus.

China appears to have deployed surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island in the South China Sea, say reports.

Satellite images taken on 14 February and published by Fox News …

An Indian media tycoon has been formally charged with the murder of his stepdaughter, police said. Peter Mukerjea, the former CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s Star India network, was arrested in November.…

Indonesia has drawn up plans for tougher anti-terrorism laws following last month’s militant attack on the capital, including detention without trial for up to three months compared with a week…

South Korea’s president warned on Tuesday that rival North Korea faces collapse if it doesn’t abandon its nuclear bomb program, an unusually strong broadside that will likely infuriate Pyongyang…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorists attacked Kurdish forces in Iraq with mustard gas last year, in the first known use of chemical weapons in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein, a diplomat…

Four out of five hotspots to register and process migrants and refugees in Greece are ready to receive people, the country’s defense minister said on Tuesday. “It was a rather difficult operation…

Uganda’s main opposition presidential candidate, Kizza Besigye, was stopped twice as he attempted to reach campaign stops. Tear gas and rubber bullets were used against protesters with reports of…

US President Barack Obama gathered leaders from Southeast Asia on Monday to strengthen trade ties and form a common stance on the South China Sea in a summit the White House hopes will solidify US…

Negotiations over the UK’s EU reform demands are at a “critical moment” and the risk of breakup “is real”, EU Council President Donald Tusk has said.

Tusk, who is overseeing the negotiation…

Bahrain has arrested four American journalists covering the anniversary of its 2011 uprising amid a long crackdown on dissent in the tiny Persian Gulf nation, witnesses said on Monday.

Swedish police have arrested a murder suspect over a deadly brawl among residents of the Ljusne refugee center. Some 15 men took part in the melee, according to the police.

One person was…