Millions of Dutch voters were going to the polls on Wednesday in key elections overshadowed by a blazing diplomatic row with Turkey, with all eyes on the fate of far-right MP Geert Wilders.
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Malaysia found out the identity of Kim Jong-nam’s body based on DNA sample taken from his son, the deputy prime minister said on Wednesday. Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half brother of North Korean…
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the navy to put up “structures” to assert sovereignty over a stretch of water east of the country, where Manila has reported a Chinese survey ship…
Aid workers employed by a US-based Christian charity have been abducted in famine-hit South Sudan and negotiations were ongoing for their release.
The local aid workers were taken from a…
Former French prime minister, Manuel Valls, is not ready to endorse a candidate in the country’s presidential race, after denying reports he intended to back centrist Emmanuel Macron and ruling…
Former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, will be free soon. Egypt’s prosecution office has ordered his release, Egypt’s official news agency al-Ahram reported. On March 2, Mubarak was acquitted…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Chancellor Angela Merkel of backing terrorists, as new acrimony erupted between Turkey and its EU allies.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his main rival in national elections, the far-fight populist Geert Wilders, faced off on live television for the first time in a heated debate that centered…
Fourteen million Americans would lose coverage next year under House Republican legislation remaking the nation’s healthcare system and that number would balloon to 24 million by 2026, Congress’…
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Monday demanded a new Scottish independence referendum to be held in late 2018 or early 2019, once the terms of Britain’s exit from the European Union…
A bus driver has killed 38 people after plowing into pedestrians while trying to speed away from a fatal accident in Haiti.
The incident began when the driver mowed down two pedestrians,…
A car bomb exploded near a hotel on a busy street in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Monday, killing at least two people, police said.
Just hours before, a blast had killed the minibus…
Senator John McCain has said US President Donald Trump should provide proof that former president, Barack Obama, wiretapped his phones or he should retract the claim.
An Al-Qaeda-linked alliance of terrorist groups known as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham said on Sunday it was responsible for a double suicide bomb attack in the Syrian capital Damascus, which killed dozens…
A 64-year-old Florida man tried to set a convenience store on fire because he thought the owners were Muslim, St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara said. Richard Lloyd told deputies he wanted to “…
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the Netherlands is acting like a “banana republic” and should face sanctions for barring Turkish ministers from speaking in Rotterdam, fuelling a row…
Iraqi forces recaptured a third of west Mosul and trapped the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group fighters inside, as they made further gains in their battle to retake the city, officials…
Disgraced South Korean leader Park Geun-hye left the presidential Blue House on Sunday, two days after a court dismissed her over a corruption scandal, bound for her private home and facing the…
Iraqi security forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group since launching an assault on the area last month, a commander said on Sunday…
An outspoken Manhattan federal prosecutor known for crusading against public corruption announced he was fired on Saturday after he refused a request a day earlier to resign.
Dutch police used water cannon and horses early Sunday to break up protests outside the Turkish Consulate in Rotterdam as the city expelled a Turkish minister, amid an escalating diplomatic row…
Europe’s most powerful leader, Angela Merkel, meets for the first time on Tuesday US President Donald Trump, whose arrival in the White House has sent shockwaves across the Atlantic.
A firebrand monk notorious for anti-Muslim hate speech has been banned from giving sermons across Myanmar for one year, according to officials Saturday.
At least eight local police officers have been killed in an insider attack in the southern Afghan province of Zabul.
Two officers turned their guns on their own colleagues at a local police…
International aid groups have criticized South Sudan’s decision to sharply increase foreign worker visa fees, warning it would aggravate a humanitarian crisis in the famine-hit country.
