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US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin exchanged a handshake for the first time on Friday as ...

US-backed forces struggled to gain ground against the Islamic State group in Syria's Raqa on Friday, facing a wave of ...

Japan's chief atomic energy regulator has acknowledged it was inappropriate to say it would be "much better" if North Korea ...

Rescuers in Japan are scrambling to find more than 20 people missing after huge floods swept across the country's south ...

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he was considering a "pretty severe" response to North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test, ...

An upscale Bangladeshi restaurant has banned foreign guests, fearing a repeat of last year's deadly terrorist attack in a Dhaka ...

Sporting flak jackets, machine guns and smouldering stares, four Thai heartthrobs have been enlisted to woo fans -- and some ...

It is every Alaskan's nightmare: finding themselves within range of a North Korean missile. As that fear came one step ...

The US military conducted an airstrike against a group of Shabaab militants in Somalia early Wednesday, officials said, the third ...

Forces loyal to east Libya strongman Khalifa Haftar said Wednesday they have cornered the last jihadists in a neighbourhood of ...

The UN's political chief, Jeffrey Feltman, is in Kuwait for talks on ending the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and its ...

The Pentagon is confident it can protect the United States against an incoming North Korean rocket, an official said Wednesday ...

Israel will lift a two-year-old ban preventing politicians visiting a Jerusalem holy site for five days later this month, following ...

Iraqi forces battled the last Islamic State group holdouts in Mosul on Wednesday, a day after the country's premier feted ...

US-backed fighters inched forwards in Raqa's Old City against fierce resistance Wednesday, after penetrating the heart of the Islamic State ...

Nigerian authorities have launched an investigation into claims that a teenager survived 12 hours hidden in the wheel compartment of ...

A small plane carrying five people is believed to have crashed in Indonesia's eastern Papua province, an official said Wednesday, ...

Privately-run aid organisations rescuing migrants off Libya have slammed the idea of creating a "code of conduct" for them to ...

The Chinese hospital caring for cancer-stricken Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo has decided to invite US, German and other foreign experts ...

Canada is set to apologize and award millions of dollars of compensation to a former Guantanamo detainee who was captured ...