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A man has been killed and nine others injured in a shooting in the historic French Quarter of the US city of New Orleans. Police said the shooter opened fire shortly before 01:40 local time (0740…

Francois Fillon has won France’s first-ever conservative primary ahead of next year’s presidential election, declaring victory over moderate Alain Juppe. Fillon will likely face off against the…

Thousands participated in nationwide protests in India on Monday against the government’s ban on two major currency notes.

Most opposition parties have said they will participate in the so-…

Syrian government forces and their allies captured a major eastern Aleppo neighborhood and several smaller areas on Monday, putting much of the northern part of Aleppo’s besieged militant-held…

Philippine police conducted a controlled detonation of a homemade bomb found in a trash bin near the US Embassy in Manila on Monday and said militants sympathetic to the self-styled Islamic State…

The G20 group of leading economies must find a solution to excess capacity in the global steel industry, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, adding that overproduction in some…

The German-based Gerda Henkel Foundation has selected Iran, along with Uganda and Russia, as one of the recipients of this year’s research grants.

Wisconsin's election board agreed on Friday to conduct a statewide recount of votes cast in the presidential race, as requested by a Green Party candidate seeking similar reviews in two other…

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger…

Pakistan’s prime minister on Saturday picked Lieutenant General Qamar Javed Bajwa to replace outgoing army chief Raheel Sharif, a popular military leader credited for improving security and…

Norway’s Supreme Court has rejected Edward Snowden’s request to enter the country without the risk of being extradited to the US. He had hoped to receive an award for outstanding efforts for…

Former prime minister Francois Fillon looked on Friday to be in a strong position to claim his center-right party’s nomination to contest next year’s French presidential election as he and rival…

Lufthansa’s pilots’ union has said it rejected the airline’s latest pay offer, only hours after it was made. But the union added it has no plans now for further strikes beyond Saturday. The new…

Some two million people are expected to join nationwide protests in South Korea to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye, organizers say. They estimate 1.5 million will gather in Seoul…

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has accused the US of fabricating drug trafficking allegations against two nephews of his wife, Cilia Flores. A court in New York last week found Efrain…

Central American countries warned on Thursday that large numbers of migrants have fled their poor, violent homes since Donald Trump's surprise election win, hoping to reach the United States…

Police took 13 people into custody as the death toll in the collapse of a platform under construction at a power plant in eastern China rose to 74, with two others injured, state media said on…

Turkish President Erdogan has said his country will allow migrants to leave Turkey for Europe if the EU continues to push Ankara into a corner.

One day after the European Parliament …

Myanmar is seeking the ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Rohingya minority from its territory, a senior UN official said.

Armed forces have been killing Rohingya in Rakhine state, forcing many…

US president-elect Donald Trump has picked South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who was critical of him during his election campaign and who has little foreign policy experience, to be US…

South Korea and Japan signed a military intelligence pact on Wednesday to share sensitive information on the threat posed by North Korea's missile and nuclear activities, the South's Defense…

A broad majority of EU lawmakers have called for ceasing membership talks with Turkey due to its post-coup purges and President Recep Tayyib Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian actions. But EU's…

Pilots for Germany's leading airline have announced a two-day strike. The news came after a Frankfurt court refused to allow the company an injunction against the industrial action.

Twelve Yemeni civilians were killed by a Saudi airstrike while riding in a pickup truck in the country's northwest early on Wednesday, residents said.

Locals said the passengers were…

Colombia's government says it will sign a new peace accord with FARC rebels on Thursday, after a previous deal was rejected in a referendum last month. The new revised agreement will be submitted…