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Islamic State-linked rebels have killed at least 36 people in two days of attacks in the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local and security sources said Thursday.

Fighters suspected of being members of Islamic State West Africa Province attacked a Nigerian army base in the northeastern ​town of Magumeri, killing at least two soldiers and wounding the ‌commanding officer, security...

Laura Fernández will be sworn in today as our new president, opening a four-year term shaped by promises of tougher security policies, closer alignment with outgoing President Rodrigo Chaves and a level of legislative po...

The Bank of Mexico cut its benchmark interest ​rate in a split decision on Thursday and said it was ending an over two-year-long easing cycle as it balances concerns over ‌above-target inflation with pressure to revive M...

Honduras' new president is reviewing his predecessor's agreements with China

At least five people have died in a huge blaze at a crowded fairground in south-eastern Mexico, local officials say.

The Mexican government has agreed to end the school year around six weeks early due to their co-hosting of the World Cup and the “extraordinary heat wave” forecast.

South Korea's parliamentary speaker Woo Won-shik said on Friday that a bill to amend the constitution to tighten ​rules on martial law would not proceed to a ‌plenary vote after a filibuster by the opposition conservativ...

Indonesian authorities are searching for 20 missing hikers after the eruption of Mount Dukono on Halmahera island killed three people.

Saudi Arabia and Kuwait lifted restrictions on the US military’s use of their bases and airspace that were imposed after the launch of an American operation aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz, the Wall Street Journa...

US President Donald Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was still in place despite an Iranian attack on three American destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, which he dismissed as “a trifle.”

A Tunisian court sentenced a prominent journalist to one year in prison on Thursday, according to his supporters, after he criticised judges he said had wrongly convicted other journalists.

Two drones entered Latvia from Russian territory on Thursday morning and crashed into an oil storage facility in the Rezekne region, sparking a small fire. Initially, there were concerns of a deliberate attack on the NAT...

An explosion damaged the headquarters of the largest party in the Dutch parliament, D66, on Thursday evening, local police said, adding there were no injuries.

A French aircraft carrier is heading south of the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea in preparation for a possible mission aimed at restoring “confidence among shipowners” operating in the Strait of Hormuz, the strategicall...

Paraguay "deeply values" its relations with Taiwan and will continue to offer support, President Santiago Pena said on Friday as he was formally welcomed in Taipei ​by President Lai Ching-te.

Dozens of people have been killed in attacks reportedly carried out by al-Qaeda-affiliated fighters in central Mali, the deadliest assault since armed groups launched a widespread coordinated assault late last month.

Paraguay and Taiwan share a friendship based on freedom and ‌democracy that extends beyond diplomatic formalities, Paraguayan President Santiago Pena said on Thursday, as China told him to sever ties with Taipei.

he United ​States on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on a sprawling business conglomerate run by Cuba's military and a Cuban-Canadian mining joint venture, ‌as the Trump administration ramps up pressure on the islan...

Officials and experts in Argentina are scrambling to determine if their country is the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak that has gripped an Atlantic cruise.