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South Korea unleashed a high-decibel propaganda barrage across its border with North Korea on Friday in retaliation for its nuclear test, while the United States called on China to end “business…

US President Barack Obama has strongly criticized the most powerful US gun lobby during a televised public forum. He said the National Rifle Association had deliberately misrepresented proposed…

The UN has said the Syrian government will allow it to deliver aid to starving people living in several towns, including Madaya.

The government of Bashar al-Assad granted the UN permission…

A man wearing a fake explosives vest and wielding a butcher knife was shot to death by police outside a Paris police station on Thursday, jolting an already anxious French capital with a new dose…

The Gaza Strip’s struggling healthcare system will get some much needed help in 2016 after the first new hospital in a decade opened its doors in the territory last month and as two more foreign-…

Jordan has acknowledged that thousands of Syrian refugees are stranded in a remote desert area on its northern border with Syria awaiting entry.

Government spokesman Mohammed Momani told…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel came under mounting pressure Wednesday for her welcoming stance toward migrants, which opponents have linked to a shocking rash of apparently coordinated sex…

One year on, an anxious, fragmented France is paying tribute to the victims of the killings at Charlie Hebdo magazine, with old divisions made worse by what President Francois Hollande has called…

Authorities investigating a deadly shooting in California have appealed for help in filling an 18-minute gap in the movements of the perpetrators.

One US soldier was killed and two others were wounded in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to US military command in Kabul and NATO.

According to NATO, the incident occurred in the…

A 48-hour rail strike is underway in Brussels and southern Belgium. The trade union walkout is expected to disrupt national traffic and international connections to Paris and London.

Rail…

North Korea said it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday, claiming a significant advance in the isolated state's strike capability and setting off alarm bells in…

Police say they are checking a suspicious object found during a routine security check at the entrance to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin. Federal police spokesman, Thorsten Peters,…

Myanmar’s new parliament will convene on February 1, two months after voters gave the opposition National League for Democracy a landslide victory. Despite the NLD’s win, a quarter of seats in…

Saudi-led air strikes targeting Houthi forces intensified in Yemen on Tuesday, residents said, an escalation of a nine-month-old war that follows a rise in tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran…

The US-based cleric who has emerged as the arch foe of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan goes on trial with dozens of former police officers on Wednesday over the publication in 2013 of graft…

Islamic State’s territory shrank by 40% from its maximum expansion in Iraq, and by 20% in Syria in 2015, as international forces pushed it out of several cities, the US-led coalition fighting it…

At least 21 migrants drowned off Turkey on Tuesday after their boats overturned in rough waters in two separate incidents as they tried to reach the Greek island of Lesbos, authorities and news…

US President Barack Obama is to widen background checks on buyers of firearms, in a series of measures to address gun violence. The plans will be announced on Tuesday by the president, despite…

Despite official condemnation of Saudi Arabia’s executions, many wonder why Germany does not take action against the kingdom. Critics think arms exports to the country should have been stopped a…

At least 14 people have died and another 30 have been injured after a bus caught fire in northeastern China. The cause of the blaze was not initially clear. According to Xinhua, the vehicle caught…

An explosion was reported on Tuesday in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad close to foreign consulate buildings, including those of India, Pakistan and Iran, a spokesman for the provincial…

Switzerland’s Foreign Ministry has said that it summoned the Saudi charge d’affaires to reiterate its opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances after a mass execution in the kingdom

China’s first landing of a plane on one of its new island runways in the South China Sea shows Beijing’s facilities in the disputed region are being completed on schedule and military flights will…

The day before a deadly assault on an air base in Pathankot, a police officer returning from a temple was abducted by a group of heavily armed men speaking Urdu, he said on Tuesday.

“The…