President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of a landmark deal curbing Iran's nuclear programme and reimposed crippling sanctions on Tuesday, defying European pleas and prompting international outcry.
A candidate for state legislature in Mexico's upcoming elections was shot dead, authorities said on Tuesday, at least the sixth politician murdered in the past 10 days in what has become a blood-soaked campaign.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced the US withdrawal from the "defective" multinational nuclear deal with Iran, as Washington moved to reinstate punishing sanctions against the Islamic republic.
US Attorney General Jeff Sessions warned during a visit to the border with Mexico on Monday that people who enter the United States unlawfully with children will have them taken away.
Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas urged Latin American countries on Monday not to emulate the controversial US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem.
A senior US lawmaker introduced legislation on Monday to create a panel looking into military aviation mishaps, following a string of deadly incidents including one last week that killed nine airmen.
Nine Kenyan soldiers were killed in southern Somalia when their convoy hit a roadside bomb, authorities said on Monday, in an attack claimed by the Islamist group Al-Shabaab.
Rebel fighters and civilians began leaving an area in central Syria on Monday, state media said, under yet another negotiated withdrawal that will see regime forces expand their control.
Pakistan's interior minister Ahsan Iqbal has been shot in a suspected assassination attempt ahead of nationwide elections due this year, but will survive, officials said Sunday.
The United Arab Emirates, facing criticism from top Yemeni allies over its presence on the island of Socotra, said on Sunday its role on the strategic Yemeni territory had been “distorted".
ASEAN must deliver more than just material prosperity for its citizens if it is to remain relevant in the next five decades, says former Foreign Minister of Indonesia.
Ballots were being counted Friday from local elections in England seen as the first key electoral test for Prime Minster Theresa May since she lost her parliamentary majority last year.
Twitter on Thursday urged its more than 300 million users to change their passwords, saying they had been unintentionally "unmasked" inside the company by a software bug.
NASA is poised to launch its first lander to Mars since 2012, an unmanned spacecraft called InSight that aims to listen for quakes and unravel the mystery of how rocky planets like Earth form.
War-torn Yemen, caught in what the UN terms the world's worst humanitarian crisis, risks a resurgence of cholera that could infect millions as the rainy season advances, researchers warned on Friday.
Scientists have for the first time created embryo-like structures in the lab from stem cells, without recourse to eggs or sperm, they reported on Wednesday.
Basque separatist group ETA has announced it is fully disbanding, marking the definitive end to its deadly independence campaign and to western Europe's last armed insurgency.
Malaysian opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad is under investigation for allegedly spreading "fake news" after claiming his plane was sabotaged, police said on Thursday, just days before a closely-fought election.
Iran's ambassador to Britain said Tehran will consider walking away from the nuclear deal if the United States withdraws from the agreement, in an interview aired on Wednesday.
