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Moscow has played down an Islamic State-linked group’s reported claim that it downed a Russian passenger jet in Egypt’s Sinai...

China announced the end of its hugely controversial one-child policy on Thursday, with the official Xinhua news agency saying that...

Alassane Ouattara has won a landslide victory in Ivory Coast’s presidential election, results showed Wednesday, in a vote seen as...

Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications,...

Long-awaited testimony from Hillary Clinton on events leading to the deaths of four Americans in Libya in 2012 has revealed...

Wikileaks claims to have released some of the contents of CIA director John Brennan's personal email account. Six documents published...

The Vatican on Wednesday denied an Italian media report that Pope Francis has a small, treatable brain tumour on two...

The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday reiterated its decision to apply the asset freeze and travel ban on individuals...

The United States and Russia have signed a deal that they hope will avoid clashes between their air forces in...

The Ghanaian government, yesterday, settled part of its debt to the West African Gas Pipeline Company (WAPCo) and Nigeria Gas...

Scottish prosecutors want to interview two Libyans they have identified as new suspects over the Lockerbie bombing. They believe the...

President Barack Obama has confirmed plans to extend the US military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2016, in a shift in...

The British nurse has "deteriorated" after unexpectedly being rushed back to hospital last week with unusual complications. Pauline Cafferkey, the...

The United States is sending 300 US troops, along with surveillance drones, to Cameroon to bolster a West African effort...