Brazil’s top electoral court was expected to finish delivering its verdict on Friday on whether to strip President Michel Temer of his office in a trial highlighting mammoth political corruption in Latin America’s biggest country.
Japan's parliament passed a law on Friday that clears the way for its ageing Emperor Akihito to step down, in what would be the first imperial abdication in more than two centuries.
Health care workers, clinics and hospitals were attacked more than 400 times last year in Syria’s civil war, according to data gathered with the mobile phone application WhatsApp, a medical journal reported on Friday.
Qatar said on Thursday it will not "surrender" and rejected any interference in its foreign policy, defying its Gulf neighbours in an escalating dispute over its alleged support for extremists.
Arrivals in the United States from the six mostly Muslim countries in President Donald Trump’s travel ban have plunged despite a legal freeze on the ban’s implementation.
Prime Minister Theresa May was poised to win Britain's snap election on Friday but lose her parliamentary majority, according to shock forecasts that plunged the country into uncertainty and cast doubt on who will govern as Brexit talks loom.
North Korea launched a series of what appeared to be "surface-to-ship" cruise missiles on Thursday, South Korea's defence ministry said, in what would be the latest in a string of tests in defiance of UN sanctions.
Fired FBI director James Comey said Wednesday that Donald Trump urged him to drop a probe into former national security advisor Michael Flynn, prompting fresh allegations that the US president tried to obstruct justice.
The United States and Mexico reached an agreement on Tuesday to resolve a long-standing dispute and allow duty-free sugar imports to resume from south of the border, albeit with new conditions.
Brazil's electoral court started hearings on Tuesday that could topple scandal-tainted President Michel Temer, plunging Latin America's biggest country into its second leadership crisis in a year.
French police shot and injured a man who attacked an officer with a hammer outside Paris's Notre Dame cathedral on Tuesday, as he shouted "this is for Syria".
France will ask the UN Security Council to authorise an African military force for the Sahel region that will be sent to root out jihadists and drug traffickers, the French ambassador said on Tuesday.
A man has been arrested at Heathrow airport as part of the investigation into last month's deadly suicide bombing in Manchester, British police said on Wednesday.
Mexico's ruling party managed to hold onto the governorship of the country's largest state, according to near-complete election results Monday – which their leftist rivals rejected, vowing a fight.
A US Army veteran who had been fired in April from his job at a Florida company opened fire on Monday at the Orlando business, killing five people before taking his own life, authorities said.
Kabul will host a multinational peace conference on Afghanistan on Tuesday, as the capital reels from a wave of bombings and clashes last week that left more than 100 people dead and hundreds wounded.
The United States on Monday urged the United Nations to establish a special investigation into the murder of two UN experts who had been gathering evidence of mass graves in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
