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A terrorism suspect shot dead in a raid in a Brussels suburb on Tuesday has been identified as Algerian national Mohamed Belkaid, officials say. He was killed by snipers while trying to fire at…

Two female suicide bombers killed 22 people on Wednesday at a mosque outside the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of a seven-year-old insurgency by Boko Haram militants, a…

A bomb ripped through a bus carrying Pakistani government employees in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing 15 people, police said.

The explosion took place in an area of…

US student Otto Warmbier has been given 15 years hard labor in North Korea for crimes against the state.

Warmbier, 21, was arrested for trying to steal a propaganda sign from a hotel while…

A commander of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has died from injuries sustained in an airstrike in Syria, according to the US military on Monday.

“Omar the Chechen” was the…

Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has accepted a key ministerial role in President Dilma Rousseff’s government, media reports say.

Members of the governing Workers’ Party…

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik returns to court on Tuesday, accusing the government of human rights violations for holding him in isolation. He has previously compared his…

One police officer and three militants were killed in clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish insurgents in southeast Turkey’s largest city of Diyarbakir on Tuesday, security sources…

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Monday that “the main part” of Russian armed forces in Syria would start to withdraw, telling his diplomats to step up the push for peace as UN-…

Myanmar’s Parliament has elected Htin Kyaw as the country’s next president, the first civilian leader after more than 50 years of military rule.

Htin Kyaw is a close ally of Aung San Suu…

Nigerian drug agents arrested four Mexicans who were allegedly helping build a “super-lab” capable of producing billions of dollars’ worth of methamphetamine, the National Drug Law Enforcement…

Two robotic spacecraft on Monday began a seven-month journey to Mars as part of a European-Russian unmanned space mission to sniff out leads to life on the Red Planet.

Syria faces a moment of truth, UN mediator Staffan de Mistura said on Monday as he opened the first of three rounds of peace talks envisaged to negotiate a “clear roadmap” for a future Syria.

A British exit from the European Union may not be an immediate shock to London’s standing as a global financial hub.

London, after all, just got a vote of confidence from Europe’s biggest…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was facing fresh pressure on Monday over her liberal refugee policy after a drubbing in regional elections described as a “debacle”.

Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians flooded the streets on Sunday in the biggest-ever protests calling for President Dilma Rousseff’s removal, reflecting rising popular anger that could encourage…

A controversial Vatican trial of journalists and alleged whistleblowers resumed on Monday, in the latest installment of an image-bruising legal saga.

The spicy courtroom drama has already…

Gunmen from Al-Qaeda’s North African branch killed 16 people, including four Europeans, at a beach resort town in Ivory Coast on Sunday, the latest in a string of deadly attacks that have…

At least 47 Iraqi soldiers have been killed in a series of attacks by the self-styled Islamic State terrorists near the strategic city of Ramadi, military sources said.

Turkey’s air force hit Kurdish targets in northern Iraq on Monday, hours after a suicide car bombing in the capital killed 37 people and heightened tensions with the Kurdish rebels.

A senior Saudi Arabian prince on Monday condemned comments attributed to US President Barack Obama, saying the American leader had “thrown us a curve ball” in criticizing Riyadh’s regional role.…

Myanmar’s Parliament votes on Tuesday to pick the country’s next president from a group of three final candidates, including a frontrunner who is a longtime confidant of Nobel laureate Aung San…

Turkey becoming a member of the European Union is "not on the cards" any time soon, UK Chancellor George Osborne has said.

"I don't frankly think Turkish accession is on the cards any time…

Germans turned out in force to vote in three state elections on Sunday, with the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party looking to profit from popular angst about Chancellor Angela…

A new round of indirect peace talks beginning Monday will see Syria’s government and opposition engage for the first time in concrete discussions on the future of the war-torn country.

The…