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Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest reigning monarch, left hospital on Tuesday to make a rare public appearance to commemorate the 65th anniversary of his coronation. The 87-…

Several demonstrators in Burundi were wounded Monday as police opened fire at protesters who returned to the streets of the capital to contest a bid by President Pierre Nkurunziza to extend his…

The unrest in Baltimore after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray after he was critically injured in police custody has reopened longstanding debates over public-order policing. Where does…

A senior Syrian army officer was wounded in a suicide bombing in a central Damascus district on Monday, a monitoring group said.

The Nepal police and local volunteers found the bodies of about 100 trekkers and villagers buried in an avalanche set off by last month’s devastating earthquake and were digging through snow and…

Taliban representatives met with Afghan political figures for a second day in Qatar on Sunday, and one participant said the two sides discussed a possible ceasefire but ultimately disagreed over…

Two gunmen were shot dead after opening fire outside a provocative conference on cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, US police said. They drove to the Curtis Culwell…

The Chinese President Xi Jinping and leader of Taiwan's ruling party Eric Chu held the highest level talks between the two sides in six years.

French President Francois Hollande sought to boost ties in the Persian Gulf Monday as he oversaw the signing of a warplanes deal with Qatar and headed to Saudi Arabia for a summit.

Hollande…

An Air Arabia commercial plane flying from Kuwait to Sharjah in the UAE was diverted to a UAE military airbase on Sunday after a passenger warned the plane was about to explode, the UAE state news…

A brawl in an Athens prison wing housing foreigners left at least two inmates dead and 21 others injured on Sunday, many seriously, authorities said. The fight, involving makeshift knives,…

Dozens of gunmen from criminal gangs kidnapped seven Pakistani police from a checkpoint in the normally peaceful province of Punjab on Sunday, officials said.

The kidnapping, and further…

Officials in Nepal have said more than 7,000 people have been killed in the country’s earthquake. Survivors are facing a shortage of shelter while the main airport’s runway is struggling to cope…

People seeking racial justice in Baltimore planned a day of prayer and healing for Sunday, even as dozens of protesters were arrested Saturday night for breaking a curfew set to expire …

An Arab ground force arrived in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday and started fighting Houthi forces, Yemen’s Aden al-Ghad newspaper reported, according to Reuters.

“The first push…

Credible evidence indicates that the Saudi-led coalition used banned cluster munitions supplied by the United States in airstrikes against Houthi forces in Yemen, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.…

A New York City plainclothes police officer was shot in the head late Saturday while attempting to stop a man he suspected of carrying a handgun. Officer Brian Moore, 25, was recovering…

More than 80% of French people do not want Francois Hollande to stand for re-election in the next presidential contest in 2017 due to his poor economic record, according to a poll carried out by…

Several hundred Yazidi captives have been killed in Iraq by Islamic State militants west of Mosul, Yazidi and Iraqi officials said late Saturday.

A statement from the Yazidi Progress Party…

Former US president Jimmy Carter called Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal a strong proponent of the peace process Saturday, and said he wasn’t meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu because…

The trial of 49 suspects, including 19 police officers, on charges relating to the brutal mob killing of an Afghan woman began Saturday in Kabul.

The opening of the trial at Afghanistan’s…

An international peace council brought together an Afghan delegation and representatives of the Taliban militant group in Qatar to end the war in Afghanistan, Sputnik wrote.

Nearly 3,700 migrants have been rescued from boats near the coast of Libya on Saturday and Sunday and more rescue operations were expected during the day as people smugglers took…

US-led airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group killed at least 52 civilians in a village in northern Syria, however, the strike allegedly failed to kill even a single IS militant, a…

Maldivian authorities have carried out mass arrests, including of opposition politicians, following a large anti-government protest demanding the release of jailed former president Mohamed Nasheed…