The UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday for its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum…
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Russian officials said the US decision to supply weapons to Ukraine was dangerous and will encourage Kiev to use force in eastern Ukraine.
The US state department said on Friday the…
At least 33 people were killed on Saturday after a passenger bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a river in the western Indian state of Rajasthan, police said.
Seven injured…
The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has over 10,000 loyal fighters in Afghanistan, and Moscow believes the US may be underestimating their threat, Russia’s special envoy says.
Washington's new national security strategy is "aggressive," Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, adding that Moscow will take the US stance into consideration.
Both the US and…
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski narrowly survived an impeachment vote late Thursday over graft allegations linked to Brazilian construction firm implicated in Latin America’s biggest…
The UN refugee agency on Friday accused Australia of abandoning hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers on Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and said it must take responsibility for the mess it…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday said that Hungary sees a strong Poland as a vital component of a central European caucus within the European Union and that he would, therefore,…
Ousted regional President Carles Puigdemont is set to regain power in Catalonia after his Together for Catalonia (Junts per Catalonia) party captured 34 seats in Thursday’s election. Together…
Hundreds of protesters faced off with security forces in Iraqi Kurdistan for a fourth day Thursday, demanding the resignation of politicians accused of graft.
Police deployed en masse in…
A quarter of Rohingya children under the age of five who fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar suffer from potentially life-threatening levels of malnutrition, the United Nations said Friday.
Defying US President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off funding, the United Nations approved by a resounding vote on Thursday a motion rejecting the US decision to recognize Beit-ul-Moqaddas as…
The US-backed Saudi-led coalition is pushing Yemen towards an “apocalyptic situation”, aid agencies warned on Wednesday, the 1,000th day since the beginning of a military intervention by Riyadh…
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) said on Wednesday it was “deeply concerned” about violence and clashes during protests in the northern semi-autonomous Kurdish region this…
The government of Myanmar on Wednesday announced that it would not cooperate with or grant access to a United Nations special rapporteur who was due to assess human rights abuses in the country…
The UN is calling for a probe into the killing of a wheelchair-bound Palestinian during a protest against Trump’s Beit-ul-Moqaddas decision, despite the Israeli Defense Forces stating that it…
One of the main parties behind Afghanistan’s western-backed government warned President Ashraf Ghani that it could withdraw its support unless he reversed the dismissal of one of its most…
The longest Germany has ever taken to form a new government was 86 days. Now, that record has been broken. And no one has any idea when the waiting will be over.
So much for German…
The European Commission launched unprecedented disciplinary proceedings against Poland on Wednesday over its highly controversial judicial reforms which Brussels says threaten the rule of law.…
Turkey’s president is railing against the United Arab Emirates’ foreign minister, who retweeted a post that accused the Turkish leader’s Ottoman “forefathers” of mistreating Arabs and stealing…
Careening around a curve at almost three times the speed limit, an Amtrak passenger train derailed and hurled 13 of its 14 cars off both sides of an overpass and onto rush hour traffic below,…
The Japanese government on Tuesday approved plans to expand its ballistic missile defense system with a ground-based Aegis Ashore system made by the US in a bid to curb the threat posed by North…
China and Russia on Tuesday decried US President Donald Trump’s first National Security Strategy —which pilloried both nations as challengers to US power— as a “Cold War mentality” with an “…
Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s deputy president, has been elected as the new leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC), narrowly beating Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, after a series of…
The US on Monday vetoed a draft UN resolution that would have rejected President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Beit-ul-Moqaddas (Jerusalem) as Israel’s capital, further isolating itself…
