North Korean scientists responsible for the successful launch of the country’s latest missile, the Hwasong-12, are being feted in state media and instructed to make more...
A group seeking refuge for some 40 gay men hiding in Russia who were detained and tortured in Chechnya said five nations have come forward to...
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has won a second term in office, the interior minister has announced. Out of more than 40 million votes cast, he received...
Brazil’s Michel Temer is battling to save his presidency, amid allegations he authorised paying bribes to silence a witness in a huge corruption scandal. “I will...
Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Mali to meet French troops, less than a week after his inauguration as president. Mr Macron’s plane touched down at a...
Two Chinese Sukhoi Su-30 jets have conducted an “unprofessional” intercept of a US aircraft, the US military said. One of the Chinese jets came as close...
Sweden’s director of public prosecutions has decided to drop the rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. Marianne Ny said Mr Assange’s arrest warrant was being...
A schoolgirl believed to have been abducted by Boko Haram three years ago has been rescued by government troops while “escaping from captivity”, Nigerian officials said on...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denounced the heated rhetoric of the country’s presidential election campaign, calling it “unworthy”, less than two days before Iranians...
Intelligence on an ISIL airliner bomb plot given by US President Donald Trump to Russian officials originated in part with Jordanian spies, not Israelis,veteran Jordanian intelligence...
Turkey has called for the removal of the US diplomat coordinating an international coalition fighting ISIL in Syria and Iraq, accusing him of backing Syrian Kurdish...