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Spanish police have arrested seven people with suspected links to the self-styled Islamic State and other militant groups, officials say.

The suspects were held in raids in the cities of…

German police have searched the apartments of two suspected terrorists in Mainz, the capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, in western Germany.

No plans for an attack were found, but one of the…

Haitian President Michel Martelly gave a farewell speech and departed from his office with no successor yet chosen. A constitutional crisis was narrowly avoided after a last-ditch agreement.

Myanmar’s Parliament will begin its election of the new president on March 17, cutting very close to an April 1 deadline, suggesting talks between Aung San Suu Kyi’s victorious party and the…

Turkish aid workers have been setting up tents and distributing supplies for thousands of new Syrian refugees kept from entering Turkey at the border.

Some 35,000 people fled Aleppo area…

The UN Security Council condemned North Korea’s launch of a long-range rocket and pledged to quickly adopt a new resolution with “significant” new sanctions.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un…

Two suicide bombers targeting Afghan government and military employees killed at least nine people on Monday and wounded 23, officials said. Six civilians died and nine were injured in a blast…

The rapidly spreading Zika virus is discouraging many Americans from traveling to Latin America and the Caribbean, with 41% of those aware of the disease saying they are less likely to take such a…

Afghanistan expects to hold direct talks with the Taliban by the end of this month, an official said Sunday.

The United Arab Emirates said on Sunday it was ready to supply ground troops to help support and train an international military coalition against Islamic State in Syria provided such efforts were…

Hours after the rest of the world already knew, North Korea’s state media triumphantly announced in a special news bulletin to the nation on Sunday it had successfully launched a satellite into…

Five Czech skiers were killed in a huge avalanche that swept away their group of 17 in the Austrian skiing region of Tyrol on Saturday, police said. The avalanche, which the regional TV station…

European Union foreign ministers pleaded with Turkey to shelter refugees from the Middle East, as the collapse of militant positions in Syria threatened to unleash a new exodus.

US Republican presidential hopefuls met in the state of New Hampshire on Saturday for the final debate before the primary. Senator Marco Rubio drew several attacks from other candidates who…

A blast that punched a large hole in the fuselage of a passenger plane at Somalia’s Mogadishu airport on Tuesday was caused by a bomb, officials say.

“It was a bomb that exploded in the…

Rescuers in Taiwan pulled more people alive from a collapsed apartment tower on Sunday, a day after a strong earthquake shook the island, and kept searching for about 120 people still believed…

British Prime Minister David Cameron has won Polish and Danish support for EU reforms that will prevent a “Brexit”. He is touring European countries before setting a date for a UK referendum on EU…

Social media site Twitter has suspended 125,000 accounts for threatening or promoting terrorist acts. Most of them were related to the self-declared “Islamic State” group.

Fierce clashes have been reported near Aleppo in northern Syria, as government forces try to surround militants holed up in the strategic city. Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human…

Rescuers raced to find survivors after a powerful, shallow earthquake struck southern Taiwan before dawn Saturday, collapsing a high-rise residential complex and killing at least 11 people,…

The militant group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of two Australians near Burkina Faso’s border with Mali on Jan. 15, according to an audio statement on…

Protesters in Haiti have beaten a man to death in a clash with ex-soldiers, as political uncertainty continues. Witnesses say the crowd in the capital Port-au-Prince attacked the man, thinking…

Austria says it does not have legal authority to keep fingerprints from migrants passing through the country. Critics charge the government is skirting responsibility.

Satellite images taken this week of North Korea’s Sohae rocket launch site show apparent fueling activity seen in the past shortly before a rocket launch, a US think-tank said, as US government…

Facing western criticism over the halt to Syria peace talks, Russia said on Friday it plans to present new ideas on how to restart peace efforts at a meeting of nearly 20 key nations on Feb. 11.…