File photo: US president Barack Obama shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping after their informal meeting at the start of the...
File photo: US president Barack Obama shakes hands with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping after their informal meeting at the start of the...
Belgrade: Serbia's parliament on Friday dismissed Defence Minister Bratislav Gasic over an insulting remark he made to a female journalist. Lawmakers voted to...
The stance, taken by Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias, threw up a road block to Sanchez’ attempts to win support for a viable coalition,...
By Tim McLaughlin and Peter Eisler WASHINGTON: Barack Obama might seem an unlikely investor in the firearms industry. But the U.S. president, a...
Malian soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint at the entrance to Timbuktu, Mali, after unknown assailants attacked and withdrew from inside a U.N....
RIO DE JANEIRO: Zika has been identified in the saliva and urine of two patients infected by the virus, a leading Brazilian health...
The plans are welcomed by NATO whose chief, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (pictured) says it will mean “more troops in the eastern part...
London: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange Friday urged Britain and Sweden to let him walk free from Ecuador's embassy in London after a UN...
Senior Orthodox cleric Metropolitan Hilarion said that long-standing differences between the two churches remain, most notably a row over the status of the...
Berlin: The German government and the country's skilled craft sector on Friday launched an initiative to offer 10,000 refugees on-the-job training places as...
Abuja: Nigeria's Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by senate president Bukola Saraki to stop his corruption trial, paving the way for...
Geneva: The United Nations on Friday urged countries hit by the Zika virus, believed to be linked to serious birth defects, to allow...
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS: Thousands of house searches since November’s Islamist attacks in Paris have helped foil another terrorist plot, French Prime Minister...
Jihadists attack UN camp in Mali's Timbuktu Bamako: Suspected jihadists Friday attacked a UN military camp in the fabled city of Timbuktu in...
Stockholm: Sweden said it did not agree with a UN panel which ruled Friday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's stay in Ecuador's London...
File photo Kiev: A Ukrainian soldier was killed in a sudden upsurge in clashes between pro-Russian rebels and government forces in the country's...
BERLIN: Germany’s far-right, led by the rising anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, is using language similar to that deployed by Hitler’s Nazis,...
Geneva: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday lashed out at the "appalling" conditions for children in two migrant camps that...