Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia's far east today as the countries step up efforts to boost trade ties and resolve a lingering territorial dispute.
Hurricane Hermine barreled toward Florida Thursday night, packing damaging winds and heavy rains that the state’s governor warned could create "life-threatening" conditions.
The "Jungle" camp in the northern French town of Calais, home to thousands of migrants hoping to reach Britain, will be gradually dismantled, the country's interior minister vowed on Thursday.
Germany pledged Wednesday to rebuild a school in earthquake-hit central Italy as a probe intensified into why at least one primary school and other buildings collapsed, causing nearly 300 deaths.
Spanish MPs on Wednesday rejected acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's bid for a second term, deepening the country's political crisis and triggering a countdown to a third election in a year.
The head of Libya's unity government on Wednesday visited the coastal city of Sirte where loyalist forces have trapped Islamic State group jihadists in their last holdout, officials said.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed Wednesday to step up efforts to send migrants with no right to asylum in Europe back to their homelands.
Venezuela and Brazil on Wednesday withdrew their respective ambassadors after Caracas froze ties with its southern neighbor in response to president Dilma Rousseff's removal from office.
Brazilian senators waged an emotional marathon debate yesterday on the eve of voting on whether to strip Dilma Rousseff of the presidency and end 13 years of leftist rule in Latin America's biggest country.
One of the Islamic State's top leaders, Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, described by the US as the "principal architect" of the group's attacks on the West, has been killed in Syria, the jihadist organisation announced.
Peace talks between Myanmar's government and warring ethnic minorities kicked off today in a bid to end decades of conflict that have claimed thousands of lives and kept the country mired in poverty.
Surging flood water and mud brought by a devastating typhoon killed nine people in an elderly care home in northern Japan, officials said today, after the third storm in two weeks ripped through the country.
Singapore urged all pregnant women showing symptoms of fever or rashes to have themselves tested for the Zika virus today after the number of cases in the city-state soared to 82.
Silicon Valley tech titan Apple will fight an EU demand for a record 13 billion euros in back taxes in Ireland, a move Washington warned could damage transatlantic economic ties.
A car driven by a suicide bomber exploded after ramming through a gate at the Chinese embassy in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday, wounding three people, authorities said.
Spanish police have seized a record 100 tonnes of contraband tobacco worth 16 million euros ($18 million) and arrested 13 people suspected of selling it over the internet, they said Thursday.
France’s government has sought to open a new chapter in relations with the country’s Muslims following a summer scarred by jihadist attacks and a ban on burkinis that ratcheted up communal tensions.
Around 6,500 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya on Monday, the Italian coastguard said, in one of its busiest days of life-saving in recent years.
Clashes between Turkish forces and units affiliated with a US-backed Kurdish-led alliance in Syria are "unacceptable," the Pentagon has said, asking all sides to stand down.
A strong typhoon was on course on Tuesday for a direct hit on northeastern Japan, with authorities warning of heavy rain and high waves along the Pacific coast.
