International

Pakistan has arrested 97 al-Qaeda and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants, including three commanders, in the southern city of Karachi and foiled a planned attack to break US journalist Daniel Pearl’s…

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized western policy on the migrant crisis and said his country was capable of saying “goodbye” to refugees. His threat comes as EU countries panic under the massive…

In a dramatic response to Europe’s gravest refugee crisis since World War II, NATO ordered three warships to sail immediately on Thursday to the Aegean Sea to help end the deadly smuggling of…

South Korea will begin talks with Washington as early as next week on deploying an advanced US missile defense system following North Korea’s rocket launch, an official said on Friday, as Seoul…

Saudi Arabia, which is leading airstrikes in neighboring Yemen, has warned the United Nations and international aid groups to protect staff by removing them from areas held by Yemen’s Houthis.

Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed over support for the president in their first debate since the New Hampshire primary.

Clinton sought to cast herself as the…

CIA Director John Brennan has said IS has used chemical weapons on multiple occasions. Now the spy agency head has said the group also has the ability to make small amounts of chlorine and mustard…

Fires burned and gunshots rang out as the latest spasm of gang violence rattled Mexico’s prison system. The violence erupted just a day before Pope Francis is to begin a papal visit to Mexico.…

Major powers agreed on Friday to a cessation of hostilities in Syria set to begin in a week and to provide rapid humanitarian access to besieged Syrian towns, but failed to secure a complete…

South Sudan President Salva Kiir has reappointed bitter rival Riek Machar as vice president as part of a peace deal aimed at ending more than two years of war, state television reported. The civil…

A suicide car bomber blew himself up at a police officers’ club in a residential district of Damascus on Tuesday, killing several people, Syria’s Interior Ministry said, and Islamic State…

Sweden’s chief prosecutor said she would file a new request to interview Julian Assange after Ecuador rejected a previous one. The move comes after an expert UN panel said the Wikileaks founder…

Iraqi forces recaptured territory from Islamic State militants on Tuesday which links the recently recaptured city of Ramadi to a major army base in western Iraq, the military said.

Nine people were killed and more than 100 were injured when two passenger trains collided head-on near a Bavarian spa town about 60 km southeast of Munich on Tuesday, German police said.

Hong Kong riot police fired warning shots on Tuesday during angry clashes that erupted when authorities tried to remove illegal street stalls set up for Lunar New Year celebrations, the worst…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has met with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu for more talks on reducing the influx of migrants to Europe.

Merkel’s visit on Monday came just weeks…

People in the US state of New Hampshire are to vote in the contests between candidates seeking the Republican and the Democratic Party nominations.

On the Republican side, frontrunner…

The Mexican authorities in the coastal state of Veracruz say they are searching for a reporter who was dragged from her home by armed men and has not been seen since.

Anabel Flores Salazar…

Prosecutors in the southern Taiwan city of Tainan have issued an arrest warrant for Lin Ming-hui, the Wei-guan Golden Dragon Building’s developer, and two others. The building collapsed during an…

Russia is holding combat readiness exercises involving 8,500 troops, with dozens of ships and aircraft, in a southern region near areas of eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russian rebels. The snap…

One evening in September 2014, Mariana Yanez left her home in this crime-plagued Mexico City suburb saying she was going to make some photocopies. Then she vanished.

Months later,…

The Obama administration has said it will ask the US Congress for $1.8bn (£1.25bn) in emergency funding to combat the Zika virus. The virus, which is transmitted primarily through mosquitoes, has…

Syrian army troops recaptured a new village north of Aleppo Monday, bringing troops and allied militiamen to within a few kilometers of the Turkish border as part of a major Russian-backed…

At least 40,000 people are being starved to death in South Sudan war zones on the brink of famine, the United Nations said Monday, in a plea to rival forces to let aid in.

Rescuers pulled two survivors from the rubble of a Taiwan apartment block on Monday more than 48 hours after it was toppled by an earthquake, but the mayor of the southern city of Tainan warned…