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Turkish authorities on Sunday declared new 24-hour, indefinite curfews for two Kurdish-majority towns where Turkey’s security forces are set to launch large-scale operations to battle Kurdish…

US and South Korean troops staged a big amphibious landing exercise on Saturday, storming simulated North Korean beach defenses amid heightened tension and threats by the North to annihilate its…

Secret Service officers rushed on stage to protect US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump during a disturbance at a rally on Saturday, a day after rowdy protests shut down his event…

Unlike the Republican presidential frontrunner Donald trump who wants to make Mexico pay for a wall to keep migrants out of the United States, the Europeans are willing to pay their neighbor…

US President Barack Obama will visit London in April and urge British voters to support continued membership of the European Union, The Independent on Sunday newspaper reported.

A Pakistani official said heavy rain has caused the collapse of a coal mine in the country’s northwest, killing at least eight miners and leaving another four missing and feared dead. Local…

US President Barack Obama and Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have lavished praise on each other during the first official visit by a Canadian leader in nearly 20 years.

A lavish…

Major powers close to UN-brokered peace talks on Syria are discussing the possibility of a federal division of the war-torn country that would maintain its unity as a single state while granting…

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio has attacked Donald Trump for saying that Islam hates America, in a televised debate in Miami. Rubio, who faces a do-or-die contest in Florida on…

A disillusioned former member of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has passed a stolen memory stick of documents identifying 22,000 supporters in over 50 countries to a British…

Japan is marking the fifth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami that left more than 18,000 dead or missing.

Premier Shinzo Abe and Emperor Akihito attended a memorial in Tokyo, and…

US-led coalition airstrikes have hit the chemical weapons sites of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, according to the Pentagon.

Officials have said they were acting on…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had called for an improvement in the country’s nuclear attack capability and ordered more tests after watching the launch of two short-range missiles on Thursday.…

The United Nations and human rights groups warned on Tuesday that a tentative European Union deal to send back all irregular migrants to Turkey in exchange for political and financial rewards…

Militant group Al-Shabab said it fought off an attack on one of its bases in southern Somalia early on Wednesday that was launched by foreign commandos who flew in on two helicopters, leaving one…

Tunisian security forces killed five gunmen in new clashes on Tuesday near the border with Libya and are hunting violent militants hiding out in the area, the Interior Ministry said.

Millions of people across Indonesia and the Pacific have experienced a total solar eclipse, with parts of the region falling into complete darkness. The eclipse began at 06:19 local time (2319 GMT…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country has miniaturized nuclear warheads to be mounted on ballistic missiles and ordered improvements in the power and precision of its arsenal, its state…

Hillary Clinton has won the Democratic primary in Mississippi, while Senator  Bernie Sanders clinched Michigan. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, meanwhile, won both states for…

Slovenia has announced it will close its border to migrants without a valid EU visa. The announcement triggered a domino effect along the Western Balkan migrant route.

EU member Slovenia on…

Mobile phone giant MTN fuelled the terrorist-led insurgency in Nigeria by failing to disconnect unregistered SIM cards, the Nigerian president has said. Muhammadu Buhari made the comment during a…

China has barred a North Korean freighter from one of its ports and South Korea announced a crackdown on individuals and companies linked to Pyongyang’s weapons program, stepping up sanctions…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned down an offer to meet US President Barack Obama in Washington, the White House said.

The administration learned of Netanyahu’s move “via…

NATO ships have moved into Turkish and Greek territorial waters as part of an operation to stem the tide of refugees and migrants. Germany is leading the operation.

Malaysia and Australia say they remain “hopeful” that flight MH370 will eventually be found, two years on from its disappearance. The aircraft disappeared between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing on 8…