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Beirut – The airstrikes by the Saudi Arabia-led coalition that hit a displaced persons’ camp in northern Yemen on March 30, 2015, raised grave concerns about violations of the laws of war. The airstrikes killed at least 29 civilians and…

The Palestinian Authority joined the International Criminal Court on Wednesday, a move deeply opposed by Israel, vowing to hand over suspects to The Hague, including their own government officials.

A Russian trawler has sunk off the Kamchatka peninsula, with 54 sailors so far confirmed dead. Sixty-three people have been rescued, many suffering from hypothermia, according to a maritime rescue centre in Russia’s Far East. The Dalniy Vostok freezer trawler…

Nigerian election winner Muhammadu Buhari congratulated outgoing president Goodluck Jonathan for peacefully relinquishing power on Wednesday, a day after becoming the first Nigerian politician to unseat a sitting leader at the ballot box.

The winner of Nigeria’s presidential poll, Muhammadu Buhari, has hailed his victory as a vote for change and proof the nation has embraced democracy. Mr Buhari also praised outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan as a “worthy opponent” who peacefully relinquished power.

The German pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a plane in the French Alps last week was treated for suicidal tendencies years ago before he received his pilot’s license, German prosecutors said on Monday.

Heavy fighting between Myanmar government forces and the Arakan ethnic army has occurred near Myanmar Rakhine-Bangladesh border, the ruling party’s Union Daily reported Monday different Indian and Chinese newspap reported on Tuesday.

Early results from Nigeria’s election show little separating the incumbent, President Goodluck Jonathan, and ex-military ruler Muhammadu Buhari. With eight states and the capital Abuja declared, President Jonathan’s People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has a lead of about 20,000 votes. Final…

Nigerians vote on Saturday in what looks set to be the first genuine electoral contest since the end of military rule in 1999, one in which an opposition aspirant has a fighting chance of unseating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.

By Katarina Hoije Standing at a busy Lagos intersection, a young girl lifts her cell phone to her face and snaps a picture of herself and a billboard. When the image appears on the screen, the presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari…

Saudi Arabia and Gulf region allies launched military operations including air strikes in Yemen on Thursday, officials said, to counter Iran-allied forces besieging the southern city of Aden where the US-backed Yemeni president had taken refuge.

By John Beck Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the US said on Wednesday that his country has started bombing Houthi rebels in Yemen, adding that it was necessary to stop the “legitimate government” of the country from falling. On Thursday, however,…

Saudi Arabia is moving heavy military equipment including artillery to areas near its border with Yemen, US officials said on Tuesday, raising the risk that the Middle East’s top oil power will be drawn into the worsening Yemeni conflict.

North Korea is in the process of developing a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), Admiral Cecil D. Haney confirmed during testimony to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday. The existence of such a program, suspected for at least the…

At least 37 people were killed and 70 injured in a collision involving three buses and a truck in central Peru on Monday, authorities said.  

After a divisive election campaign by incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that further soured his already troubled relationship with the US, President Barack Obama’s chief of staff said Monday that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank “must end,” and…

Tunisia’s President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Sunday that a third gunman involved in an attack that killed 23 people, mostly foreign tourists, at a Tunis museum last week was on the run.

Lee Kuan Yew, the statesman who transformed Singapore from a small port city into a wealthy global hub, has died at the age of 91. The city-state’s prime minister for 31 years, he was widely respected as the architect of…

Even by Afghanistan’s standards of often-shifting alliances, a recent meeting between ethnic Hazara elders and local commanders of the Taliban insurgents who have persecuted them for years was extraordinary.

The foreign ministers of China, Japan and South Korea are meeting for their first talks in three years.

US President Barack Obama has told the Iranian people that a deal to transform the relationship between the two countries could be within reach.

Tunisia’s president has vowed to fight terrorism “without mercy”, following a gun attack on the Bardo Museum in the capital Tunis that killed 19 people.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party has won a surprise victory in Israel’s election.

Voters in Israel are preparing to go to the polls in what is expected to be a tightly-fought election.

Syria’s Kurds are engaged in a bitter battle with the forces of Islamic State (IS) in the north of their country – and increasingly foreign volunteers are finding themselves on the front lines.

Syria’s Kurds are engaged in a bitter battle with the forces of Islamic State (IS) in the north of their country – and increasingly foreign volunteers are finding themselves on the front lines.