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Catalonia refused on Tuesday to bow to the Spanish government’s demand that it renounce a symbolic declaration of independence, setting it on a political collision course with Madrid later this…

Taliban militants struck government targets in many provinces of Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, including a senior police commander, and wounding scores of others.

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US-backed forces fighting the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Raqqa say “major military operations” in the city have ended and that the militants have lost control of their self-…

One of Malta’s most renowned investigative journalists was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car just after she had left her home. Daphne Caruana Galizia ran a popular blog that exposed…

The situation on the Korean Peninsula “has reached a touch-and-go-point and nuclear war may break out at any moment,” North Korean Deputy Ambassador Kim In Ryong told the UN General Assembly’s…

China’s 88-million-strong Communist Party of China (CPC) will open its 19th National Congress in Beijing on Wednesday. This key event occurs once every five years to set the Party’s national…

Kurdish forces were withdrawing from Kirkuk on Monday as Iraqi federal forces moved into the disputed city and seized oil fields and other infrastructure amid soaring tensions over last month's…

Austria’s shift to the right in a parliamentary election has paved the way for young conservative star Sebastian Kurz to become the country’s next leader and opened a path for the resurgent far…

The Israeli military says it has struck and destroyed an anti-aircraft battery in Syria after its planes were fired upon in Lebanese airspace. A military spokesman said the Israeli planes were…

French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed to follow through on the “radical” immigration reform promised prior to his election, with all undocumented migrants convicted of a crime to be…

Wildfires in Portugal killed at least 32 people, injured dozens more and left others missing in the country’s second such tragedy in four months, officials said Monday. In neighboring Spain,…

Pope Francis demanded Monday that world governments collectively commit to end rising world hunger by resolving the conflicts and climate change-related disasters that force people to leave…

The head of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Southeast Asia, who figures on the US “most wanted terrorist” list, was killed on Monday in the battle to reclaim a militant-held…

Hungry, destitute and scared, thousands of new Rohingya refugees crossed the border into Bangladesh from Myanmar early on Monday, Reuters witnesses said, fleeing hunger and attacks by Buddhist…

The death toll from the most powerful bomb blast witnessed in Somalia’s capital rose to 231 with more than 200 injured, making it the deadliest single attack ever in the Horn of Africa nation,…

A Syrian government statement demanding Turkish troops’ withdrawal from the northwest city of Idlib is made to feed the domestic public opinion and should not be taken seriously, a senior MP…

Wild elephants have trampled sleeping Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, killing three children and a woman in the second such incident since the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees from…

The presidents of Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan have held talks to defuse an escalating crisis in Kirkuk province, as the Baghdad-imposed deadline for Kurds to leave military positions in the…

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday that President Donald Trump had instructed him to continue diplomatic efforts to calm rising tensions with North Korea, saying “those diplomatic…

A group of psychologists and mental health professionals on Saturday marched through New York calling for President Trump to be removed from office.

The group —which included more than…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced a regional vote test Sunday, after winning a fourth term with a disappointing showing that has forced her to embark on high-stakes coalition talks.

A Labour government would ban exports of British-made weapons to all members of the US-backed Saudi bombing campaign against Yemen, Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow minister for peace has told Middle East…

Four Moldovan citizens were killed and two others were injured when a cargo plane chartered by the French military crashed into the sea near the airport in Ivory Coast’s main city, Abidjan, on…

Green groups on Friday slammed US President Donald Trump for choosing a nominee for White House environmental panel who wrote in an opinion article last year that carbon dioxide is not a…

China’s ruling Communist Party has agreed to amend the party constitution, expected to embed President Xi Jinping’s political thought, ahead of next week’s five-yearly party congress in which Xi…