International

Cambodia's UN-backed court has upheld life sentences for two former Khmer Rouge leaders convicted of crimes against humanity.

The former regime killed more than a million people during its…

The late-season storm has killed at least three people in Panama. Meteorologists also predicted it would be the first hurricane to make landfall in Costa Rica in 50 years.

Although it was…

Iraqi military medics rushed a man whose mouth had been blown apart by mortar shrapnel into their temporary field clinic on the eastern edges of Mosul.

They bandaged the wound and gave him…

Indian shelling across the frontier into Pakistani-controlled Kashmir hit a bus, killing at least nine people and wounding 11, Pakistani officials said, as tension between the nuclear-armed…

Turkey on Tuesday dismissed over 15,000 more civil servants, police officers and military personnel within the state of emergency imposed after the July failed coup, in a purge that shows no sign…

US forces backing Iraqi troops retaking Mosul from the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group carried out an airstrike on a bridge spanning the Tigris River, restricting militant movements…

Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two of its servicemen from the Crimean Peninsula, which it annexed in 2014. The Russian Defense Ministry said the men were “illegally detained” on Sunday.…

Donald Trump has tweeted that Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage “would do a great job” as British ambassador to the US, in the latest unorthodox intervention from the president-elect.

Egypt’s Court of Cassation overturned on Tuesday a life sentence against deposed President Mohamed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered a retrial in the case that revolves around…

Turkey’s ruling AK Party is withdrawing a proposed bill on underage marriage for further consultations, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday, after opposition and rights groups said it…

Coastal residents fled to higher ground as a powerful earthquake sent a series of moderate tsunamis toward Japan’s northeastern shore on Tuesday and fueled concerns about the Fukushima Nuclear…

The latest round of talks on ending Cyprus’ 42-year-old division reached an impasse without agreement. The island has been divided since 1974.

US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke for about four minutes on Sunday at the APEC summit about Syria and Ukraine, in what is likely to be their last in-person…

Iraqi Shia militias were massing troops on Monday to cut remaining supply routes to Mosul, the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group's last major stronghold in Iraq, closing in on the road…

Satellite images show fire and destruction in northwest Myanmar, home to the Muslim Rohingya minority, Human Rights Watch said. Journalist and aid agencies face severe restrictions while trying to…

Concerns over a low turnout have overshadowed the repeatedly delayed presidential elections in Haiti. Many voters are more interested in finding food and water than voting.

French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy has been knocked out of a primary to choose the presidential candidate of the center-right Republican party.

Admitting defeat, Sarkozy endorsed Francois…

Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced she will stand in next year’s elections for a fourth term.

Addressing the media from a platform with the word “The Center” (Die Mitte) written on…

A suicide bomber killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens on Monday in an explosion at a crowded Shia mosque in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials said. The attacker entered the Baqir ul Olum…

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday assessed several more contenders for top US posts, including Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani, as blunt-spoken retired Marine Corps General James Mattis…

A UN proposal to end heavy fighting in the city of Aleppo has been rejected by the Syrian government.

Under the plan, militant-held eastern Aleppo would remain under opposition control if…

The impeachment of South Korea’s embattled President Park Guen-Hye in a snowballing corruption case inched closer on Monday when the main opposition party said it was examining options.

The…

Chinese President Xi Jinping has said he hopes for a "smooth transition" in ties with the US after a final meeting with Obama, while Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto said he wants a "new era…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte lashed out at western “bullying” and “hypocrisy” during his first meeting with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and said when it came to alliances, the…

The president-elect has met with his fierce critic Mitt Romney as he assembles his Cabinet.

Despite the former GOP candidate’s stance on Trump, the meeting has fed rumors that Romney could…