France Monday called on Russia to stop military action in Syria and respect a fragile ceasefire brokered by Moscow and Turkey seeking to end nearly six years of war. "We resolutely condemn everything Russia could do in Syria that would contribute to a continuation of fighting," Prime...

The daughter of Choi Soon-Sil, the woman at the centre of a corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of South Korea's President, has been arrested in Denmark after months in hiding, Seoul prosecutors said Monday. Chung Yoo-Ra, the 20-year-old daughter of the woman dubbed South Korea's...

A top aide to President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Sunday that the White House may have disproportionately punished Russia by ordering the expulsion of 35 suspected Russian spies. Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said on ABC's "This Week" that Trump will...

The U.S. embassy in Turkey on Sunday rejected media claims it had prior intelligence about the deadly terror attack at an Istanbul nightclub. "Contrary to rumors circulating on social media, the U.S. Government had no information about threats to specific entertainment venues, including the...

 A plane carrying 35 Russian diplomats, expelled from the United States over Moscow's alleged interference in the presidential election, took off from Washington on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported. "The plane has taken off, everyone is on board," said the Russian embassy in...

 North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said on Sunday that his country was making final preparations to conduct its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile — a bold statement less than a month before the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. Although North Korea has...

Around 1,100 sub-Saharan African migrants tried to cross into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco Sunday by storming a border fence, though most were eventually turned back, the Spanish government said. Dozens of migrants made it to the top of the 6 meter barbed wire fence in...

Police say a lawmaker from Bangladesh's ruling party has been shot dead by masked men in northern Bangladesh. Local police chief Atiar Rahman says Manzurul Islam Liton, a federal legislator from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League party, was shot at his home in Gaibandha district...

South Korean President Park Geun-hye Sunday rejected allegations of wrongdoing in the political scandal that threatens her presidency, saying she was "set up" and the allegations were "fabrication and falsehood", said South Korean media. Park said Choi Soon-sil, her long-time friend, was...

Hundreds of thousands of merrymakers witnessed the descent of the kaleidoscopic New Year's Eve ball in Times Square at midnight Sunday, celebrating a century-old New York tradition under an unprecedented umbrella of security. As many as 2 million people, surrounded by a ring of 40-ton sand...

Burundi's environment minister was shot dead in the capital Bujumbura early Sunday, police said, the first assassination of its kind since the country was plunged into political turmoil in 2015. Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, the country's water, environment and planning minister, was killed...

(Sky News)- Five people have been killed and dozens rescued after a blaze ripped through a boat carrying tourists to Indonesian islands. The craft was heading to islands north of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, when it caught fire. Some 17 people were also injured, said Ferry Budiharso,...

Antonio Guterres took the reins of the United Nations on New Year's Day, promising to be a "bridge-builder" but facing an antagonistic incoming U.S. administration led by Donald Trump who thinks the world body's 193 member states do nothing except talk and have a good time. The former...

President-elect Donald Trump again cast doubt Saturday on a U.S. intelligence finding that Russia meddled in the U.S. election through computer hacking, a conclusion that led to U.S. sanctions against Moscow. "Well, I just want them to be sure, because it's a pretty serious charge, and I...

President Francois Hollande said he would on Monday visit French troops fighting ISIS extremists in Iraq, as he warned that the terrorist threat within France was still live. "We are not yet finished with the scourge of terrorism. We must continue to fight it abroad -- that's the reason for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin spoke on the phone Saturday with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the conflict in Syria and "continued security cooperation", his office said. The talks came as the 15-member U.N. Security Council unanimously voted to back a Russian-Turkish peace...

The United Nations Security Council on Saturday adopted a resolution endorsing a ceasefire in the Syrian civil war brokered by Russia and Turkey. Russia and Turkey announced the ceasefire this week, the third truce this year seeking to end the nearly six years of war in Syria....

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that the year 2016 was "difficult" but congratulated his country on its accomplishments and on believing in itself. The past year "was difficult, but the difficulties we came across united us," Putin said in his traditional New Year's greeting,...

Ban Ki-moon ends 10 years at the helm of the United Nations lamenting the "fires still burning" from Syria to South Sudan but buoyed by a global agreement to combat climate change and new U.N. goals to fight poverty and inequality. As a final act before his term ends at midnight on New...

Boko Haram's leader is urging his fighters to "kill, slaughter and abduct ... and detonate bombs everywhere," in a new video that denies Nigerian government claims that his militant extremist group has been crushed. President Muhammadu Buhari declared last week that soldiers had driven Boko...