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The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) on Monday welcomed a call by prominent Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani for dialogue between Baghdad and Erbil following a controversial independence…

President Donald Trump on Sunday again mocked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson should not bother trying to negotiate with him in an effort to stop the…

The Bavarian sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has said they must agree policies on immigration limits, pensions and healthcare before opening…

A Myanmar minister on Monday proposed taking back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh after a military crackdown, according to Dhaka’s top diplomat.

More than 15 people have been killed in a coordinated bombing in Syria’s capital Damascus, according to several sources. A car bomb went off near a police station in Damascus’s al-Midan…

The United States does not recognize the independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan and urges an end to “threats of reciprocal actions,” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a statement…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated that Turkey doesn’t need EU membership anymore, but still, the country ‘will not be the side which gives up’ during the accession talks.

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French soldiers shot and a killed a man on Sunday after he stabbed to death two women at Marseille’s main train station, the French Interior Ministry said, in what police sources called a “…

After a half-century of armed struggle, the Colombian armed forces and the country’s last guerrilla group, the ELN, began on Sunday a historic, if possibly temporary truce.

The initial…

Traffic through the exit door of Donald Trump’s administration has been astonishingly high since he became president on January 20.

On Friday, President Donald Trump’s embattled health…

Spanish riot police burst into polling stations across Catalonia on Sunday, confiscating ballot boxes and voting papers to try to halt a referendum on a split from Spain as Madrid asserted its…

Yemen’s Houthi forces shot down a US surveillance drone in the capital Sanaa on Sunday, the Houthi-controlled state news agency SABA reported.

The UN has warned of a humanitarian “nightmare” unfolding in Bangladesh’s refugee camps, where half a million people have taken shelter after fleeing violence in Myanmar in unprecedented waves…

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday Germany and France had overcome the legacy of two world wars together and alongside their partners could improve the European Union together. The…

Pope Francis launched a global Roman Catholic campaign on Wednesday to improve the lot of immigrants and one of his top cardinals urged politicians to “touch the hand of a migrant” before trying…

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi demanded on Wednesday that Kurdish authorities “cancel” the outcome of the independence referendum in northern Iraq, as a condition for dialogue to resolve…

A Thai court on Wednesday sentenced former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, whose government was ousted in a 2014 military coup, in absentia to five years in prison for alleged negligence in…

International police agency Interpol voted Wednesday to include Palestine as a member state, in a new boost to Palestinian efforts for international recognition and influence amid long-stalled…

A court in Israel has issued a gag order on a ruling expected on Wednesday to determine whether it will allow Israeli defense companies to continue selling weapons to Myanmar.

The order…

Self-styled Islamic State terrorists have killed at least seven Iraqi soldiers and wounded 16 others in a series of attacks in the country’s Anbar Province, security sources said. Wednesday’s…

Britain’s main opposition Labour Party is ready for government, its leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Wednesday, calling on Prime Minister Theresa May to end her government’s “Brexit bungling”, give…

Saudi Arabia has threatened other countries over a proposed resolution at the UN’s leading human rights body that would send international, independent investigators into war-torn Yemen.

Myanmar is committing crimes against humanity in its campaign against Muslims in Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday, calling for the UN Security Council to impose sanctions and an…

Russian military road service specialists have built a bridge across the Euphrates river a few kilometers from Deir al-Zor in northeastern Syria to transport military hardware and personnel to…

Ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appeared before an anti-corruption court on Tuesday, kicking off trial proceedings that he says are biased and which threaten to dent his party’s…