Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi has been taken to hospital with a heart problem, according to a spokeswoman for his party. The 79-year-old’s condition was “nothing to worry about”,…
International
A date of October 9 has been set for polls to elect a new president after the results of last year’s election were annulled. An independent commission found evidence of fraud during the 2015 vote…
A Venezuelan woman died on Monday after being shot in the face when looters raided state food warehouses, her family said, in the latest unrest in the crisis-hit OPEC nation.
The nail-biter race to become Peru’s next president tightened, as the daughter of imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori gained ground on her rival, thanks to a larger haul of votes trickling in…
Troops from over 20 countries are taking part in the massive exercise in Poland, amid severe tensions between NATO and Moscow.
The maneuvers test the alliance’s ability to “defend its…
The United Nations has said it will temporarily remove the coalition from a blacklist following the deaths of hundreds of minors in Yemen last year. Riyadh had warned its inclusion may be “…
Hillary Clinton has clinched the Democratic nomination for US president after reaching the required number of delegates, an AP tally suggests.
The count puts Clinton on 2,383—the number…
North Korea appears to have restarted its nuclear facility at Yongbyon, the International Atomic Energy Agency has said.
The Yongbyon site processes spent fuel from power stations and has…
The campaign for Britain to leave the European Union has taken a 4-5 percentage point lead ahead of a June 23 referendum, according to online polls by ICM and YouGov, sending sterling toward three…
Scientists in the United States are trying to grow human organs inside pigs. They have injected human stem cells into pig embryos to produce human-pig embryos known as chimeras, BBC reported. The…
The self-styled Islamic State militant group has "shot and killed" civilians fleeing Fallujah, said the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Around 50,000 civilians are trapped in the city center,…
Three people are dead and more are missing after massive storms flooded rivers, uprooted trees and tore into beaches along Australia’s east coast.
Storms continue to batter southern New…
The US Navy slapped a drinking ban on sailors stationed in Japan on Monday and halted off base liberty after police arrested a US sailor on the southern island of Okinawa on suspicion of drunk…
The leader of the largest Iraqi Shia paramilitary group has criticized a lack of “precise planning” in war operations to capture Fallujah, the stronghold of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist…
Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has won the primary in the US territory of Puerto Rico. Projections give her more than 60% of the vote, compared with just over 35% for her rival,…
In March, a senior commander with the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group was driving through northern Syria on orders to lead militants in the fighting there when a drone blasted his…
A veteran American photojournalist and a translator working for NPR were killed while accompanying Afghan troops in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, NPR and military officials said.
The anti-establishment Five Star Movement’s Virginia Raggi is poised to become Rome’s first female mayor, in a blow for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s Democratic Party, according to first…
A passenger train crashed into the back of a freight train late Sunday in the Belgian municipality of Saint-Georges-Sur-Meuse, leaving at least three people dead and 40 others injured.
Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has suggested that the EU’s refugees be interned offshore rather than allowed on to the continent. He said the EU should look to the Australian example of…
Turkish warplanes struck Kurdish targets in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey, and the army killed 27 fighters near its borders with Iraq and Iran, the armed forces said on Sunday.
Thousands of people have marched in Warsaw, protesting against Poland’s conservative government, 27 years since the fall of communism.
Opposition leaders, including two former presidents,…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called upon Latin America on Saturday not to give in to “brutal pressure” from the United States to isolate his government, which is battling intensifying…
Hundreds of Boko Haram extremists attacked a military post in Niger near the country’s border with Nigeria, killing at least 32 soldiers, Niger’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday.
The…
The UN refugee agency has documented over 100 cases of “excessive use of force” against refugees trying to enter Hungary.
Budapest has taken bold measures to block migrants from entering…
