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North Korea confirmed its recent test-firing of a ballistic missile was "successful", the state-run news agency KCNA reported Tuesday, a ...

At least 180 people have now been confirmed dead in the worst flooding to hit Sri Lanka for 14 years. ...

Egypt's president has signed into law a contentious new bill to regulate non-governmental organisations, the official gazette said on Monday, ...

A court run by militant Islamists in southern Somalia has stoned a married man to death for adultery. Dayow Mohamed ...

Qatar has deported a Saudi human rights activist who was on his way to Norway where he hoped to seek ...

Up to 200,000 civilians caught between fanatical jihadists and advancing Iraqi forces are in grave danger in the final stages ...

President Donald Trump on Monday called North Korea's latest missile test a slap in the face for its main ally ...

Thousands of Sri Lankan troops battled Monday to get relief supplies to nearly half a million people displaced by the ...

French President Emmanuel Macron hosts Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday in their first meeting since he came to office ...

China pleaded again for dialogue on Monday to ease regional tensions after North Korea launched its latest missile test in ...

The United Nations has posthumously conferred its highest awards, the Dag Hammarskjold Medals on two Ghanaian Peacekeepers who paid the ...

North Korea has fired a short-range ballistic missile, the third apparently successful test in as many weeks. The Scud flew ...

Thousands of voracious white maggots wiggle frenetically while tearing through trayfuls of leftover meat, vegetables and fruits in an unusual ...

Sri Lanka's monsoon toll climbed to 164 with the discovery of more bodies of people buried in landslides triggered by ...

North Korea fired a short-range ballistic missile Monday morning that landed in the ocean, the US military said. South Korea ...

North Korea fired a ballistic missile on Monday, the South's military and Japan said, a move that ratcheted up tensions ...

A Frenchman who was abducted nearly two months ago in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been freed, the office ...

Emergency teams rushed food and water Sunday to half a million Sri Lankans displaced by the island's worst flooding for ...

Civilians are being hit hardest as Iraq's military assault on Mosul enters its final phase, the country's UN humanitarian relief ...

A group of militant Islamists in Libya, blamed by the US for the 2012 attack on the US mission in ...