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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to be questioned by a Swedish lawyer in his London asylum. This means the grounds for the existing warrant against him will no longer apply, but he still…

US president-elect Donald Trump has awarded key roles in his incoming team to a top Republican party official and a conservative media chief.

Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican…

European foreign ministers have met in Brussels, Belgium, to determine the best course of action for a Trump presidency. Trade deals, relations with Russia and the US commitment to NATO all hang…

The Myanmar Army says it shot dead at least 25 people in Rohingya Muslim villages in restive Rakhine state on Sunday.

It said the people killed had been armed with machetes and wooden clubs…

An ancient city known for its Assyrian relics has been liberated from the militant group, the Iraqi army has said.

In 2015, the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group destroyed several…

Following the defeat of his center-right party's candidate in Bulgaria's presidential election on Sunday, Prime Minister Boiko Borisov has said he will resign as promised.

"In the…

Iraq's Interior Ministry says a suicide attack south of Baghdad has killed at least six civilians. Interior Ministry Spokesman Brig. Gen. Saad Maan says six suicide bombers tried on Monday to…

A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake pummeled central New Zealand early on Monday, killing at least two people, damaging roads and buildings, and setting off hundreds of strong aftershocks.

Turkey suspended from duty 168 officers and 123 non-commissioned officers from its navy over alleged links to a coup attempt in July, the defense ministry said on Sunday, as the government…

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has warned US president-elect Donald Trump that “going it alone” is not an option for Europe or the United States. He said the West faced its greatest…

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck central New Zealand just after midnight (1102 GMT Sunday), the US Geological Survey said, generating a tsunami that hit the northeast coast of the…

Colombia’s government and the Marxist FARC rebels said on Saturday they agreed on a revised peace deal to end a 52-year war, six weeks after the original was narrowly rejected in a referendum amid…

As France commemorates its deadliest terror attack in recent history on Sunday, many remain traumatized. And there is widespread fear that more could come.

Emmanuel Domenach thought he was…

Iraq’s Kurdish security forces have unlawfully destroyed Arab homes and villages in northern Iraq over the past two years in what may amount to a war crime, rights group Human Rights Watch said on…

Syrian government forces have retaken areas of the city of Aleppo that were lost to militants in the recent fighting.

The loss of the territory on the city’s western edges was confirmed by…

South Korean prosecutors are likely to question President Park Geun-hye over suspicion that she let a shadowy longtime confidante manipulate power from behind the scenes, state-run Yonhap news…

Hillary Clinton has blamed her defeat in the US presidential election on interventions by the FBI director.

James Comey’s announcement of a new inquiry into her use of email while secretary…

An explosion at a remote Sufi Muslim shrine in the Pakistani region of Balochistan has killed 52 people and injured more than 100, officials say. Emergency services struggled to reach the Shah…

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has arrested 10 people from Central Asia with links to the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group who planned to carry out attacks with firearms and…

The Afghan Parliament sacked the minister of foreign affairs and two of his Cabinet colleagues on Saturday citing poor performance, in a sweeping move that underlined the fragility of President…

Hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in the South Korean capital, Seoul, to demand the resignation of President Park Geun-hye.

Large numbers of police officers are being deployed to…

UN-sponsored talks between Greek and Turkish leaders in Switzerland have achieved significant progress. They will resume later this month with the aim of reaching a reunification deal before the…

Japan has signed a controversial deal to sell civil nuclear power equipment and technology to India, despite resistance from campaigners, as the two countries seek to boost business and…

A deadly explosion hit Bagram Airfield, the largest and main US military airbase in Afghanistan’s central Parwan Province on Saturday, the US military said.

The attack struck just…

Donald Trump’s election risks upsetting EU ties with the US “fundamentally and structurally”, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has warned.

“We will need to teach the president-…