The United States and its regional allies will maintain a "strong collaborative defensive stance" on North Korea, despite ongoing negotiations to bring peace to the peninsula, Defense Secretary James Mattis said on Friday.
Prime Minister Theresa May urged EU leaders on Thursday not to risk the safety of their citizens by cutting security ties with Britain after Brexit, as she sought to step up the wider withdrawal negotiations.
A man armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades burst into a newspaper office in the US city of Annapolis on Thursday, killing five people in what police described as a "targeted attack."
Hundreds of vehicles on Wednesday pushed into Mosul's rubble-strewn streets to begin a massive clean up campaign, nearly a year after Islamic State group jihadists were pushed out of their "capital" in Iraq.
A Republican "compromise" bill reforming US immigration law failed spectacularly in Congress on Wednesday, dealing a blow to President Donald Trump's efforts to resolve a swirling border crisis that has seen thousands of migrant families separated.
EU leaders face deep divisions on migration and the eurozone at a crucial summit in Brussels on Thursday that could decide the fate of embattled German Chancellor Angela Merkel and even the bloc itself.
The investigation into the assassination of the allegedly North Korean leader's half-brother was "shoddy" and "lopsided", a Malaysian court heard on Wednesday as the trial resumed of two women accused of the murder.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and his arch-foe Riek Machar have "agreed on some points" at peace talks in Khartoum and a deal is to be signed, Sudanese officials said on Tuesday.
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Donald Trump's controversial travel ban targeting Muslim-majority nations, but the president's "zero tolerance" crackdown on illegal immigration was put on hold for lack of places to detain families arrested at the Mexican border.
Poland has told its EU partners that differences over reforms of the judiciary, which Brussels says undermine the rule of law and may merit punishment, were coming to an end.
Six EU countries have agreed to take in over 200 migrants stranded on a rescue ship off Malta's coast, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, after days of bickering between member states over their fate.
British MPs has overwhelmingly approved long-awaited plans to build a third runway at London Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, after decades of acrimonious debate over its potential impact.
North and South Korea held talks on Tuesday on connecting the railways that run across their border, a physical link that would transform the relationship between the two sides of the divided peninsula.
Syrian state media said early on Tuesday that two Israeli missiles struck near Damascus International Airport, without adding any details.
Argentina ground to a halt on Monday as public service unions blocked road, rail and air transport with a nationwide 24-hour strike in protest at the government's latest deal with the International Monetary Fund.
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday called for calm after 86 people were killed in an attack by suspected nomadic herders against farming communities in the restive centre of the country.
Nine EU nations will on Monday formalize a plan to create a European military intervention force, a French minister said, with Britain backing the measure as a way to maintain strong defence ties with the bloc after Brexit.
A year of "vintage" economic growth could be undone by rising protectionism, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) said on Sunday, as fears of an all-out global trade war ramp up.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won tightly-contested presidential polls, the election authority said on Monday.
Germany and France pushed on Sunday for new solutions to the migration crisis as bickering among European Union leaders left boats carrying hundreds of African migrants adrift at sea.
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