US and South Korean agents are plotting to kill North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, state media report. A statement by the ministry of state security said a terrorist group backed by the CIA and South...
The Somali government sacked the country's auditor-general on Friday, after his bodyguards were accused of shooting dead the minister of public works, apparently by accident. Abbas Abdullahi Siraji,...
A 48-year-old farmer who attempted to enter the Central Regional Police headquarters in Cape Coast with a locally-manufactured pistol with three live cartridges has been arrested by the Police....
An employee of the United Nations has been kidnapped by a dissident rebel faction in southern Colombia, marring a visit by UN Security Council ambassadors to show support for the South American...
The photos were published with the permission of the Clayton family A photo taken by a US Army camerawoman of the moment she and four Afghans were killed in an explosion has been released by the...
Pakistani and Afghan officials accused each other of killing civilians Friday after gunfire erupted near a major border crossing where Pakistani census officials were carrying out a count. The...
Caracas has seen almost daily demonstrations in recent weeks, some of which have turned violent Eight Latin American nations, including Mexico, Argentina and Brazil, have collectively denounced...
Indian security forces are searching for militants in the restive region of Kashmir in what is being called a major operation. The move, which began on Thursday, follows a series of attacks on...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspected a military unit that was responsible for bombarding a southern island, state media said Friday ahead of a presidential election in the South. Pyongyang fired...
The famine ravaging South Sudan and its neighbours could claim six million lives, a charity warned Friday, as the international community struggles to raise the $4.4 billion needed to avert a...
Renowned conductor Gustavo Dudamel has urged the government in his native Venezuela to "listen to the people" after weeks of violent protests. He posted his strongly-worded message after an...
The UN Security Council on Thursday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo to cooperate with investigations of the murder of two UN experts and mass graves found in the troubled Kasai region. In a...
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video published online on Thursday, rejecting claims he had been injured in an airstrike in remote northeast Nigeria. The jihadist chief was said...
The Pentagon will ask the White House next week to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan to break a deadlocked fight with the Taliban, a senior official said Thursday. After a steady downsizing...
US President Donald Trump and Australia's Malcolm Turnbull will meet later Thursday to steady a long-standing alliance after relations soured at a time of growing tensions in the Asia-Pacific. The...
Thousands of soldiers and paramilitaries were Thursday engaged in a huge anti-militant operation in Indian-administered Kashmir, where armed rebels have repeatedly attacked government forces in...
The United States gave an extremely cautious welcome on Thursday to Russia and Turkey's plan to create safe zones to quell the Syrian civil war. The State Department said Washington hopes the...
A UN peacekeeper killed in a rocket and mortar attack in Mali was identified Thursday as a Liberian soldier, as a powerful jihadist alliance claimed its latest high-profile operation. Nine other...
Donald Trump on Thursday announced his first foreign trip as president will include stops in Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Vatican -- the spiritual centers of Islam, Judaism and Catholicism. Trump...
The UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan said Thursday it had repelled a "callous" attack by armed assailants on a base in the north of the country. The attackers struck late Wednesday on a temporary...
