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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan approved on Tuesday a new cabinet led by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu following the Nov. 1 parliamentary election where the AK Party regained the single-party rule it had lost in a June 7 vote. The announcement...

Britain on Monday offered France use of an airbase in Cyprus for its strikes on Islamic State in Syria as President Francois Hollande prepared to ask other world leaders for help fighting the militant group. On a visit to Paris...

Hopes faded on Monday that any of an estimated 100 people missing would be found alive after a landslide in northern Myanmar buried an encampment near a jade mine, and officials said it was still unclear how many people...

Three new cases of Ebola have been confirmed in Liberia less than three months after the country was declared free of the virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. The three patients include a 10-year-old boy from Paynesville, a...

Belgium put the capital Brussels on maximum security alert on Saturday, shutting the metro and warning people to avoid crowds because of a "serious and imminent" threat of coordinated, multiple attacks by militants. A week after the Paris bombings and...

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday that countries should stop building artificial islands and militarising their claims in the disputed South China Sea. "For the sake of regional stability the claimants should halt reclamation, construction and militarisation of disputed...

11:07 p.m. The U.S. State Department says one American was among at least 19 people killed an attack Friday at a Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mail. The department is declining to immediately identify the American victim out of respect for the...

Officials say suspected Islamist gunmen who stormed a hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, have "no more hostages". The Radisson Blu Hotel was stormed by special forces after gunmen entered it and seized 170 people. At least 30 of the hostages...

Gunmen have launched an attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in the centre of Mali's capital, Bamako. Two people have locked in 140 guests and 30 employees in "a hostage-taking situation", the hotel's owners said in a statement. Police have surrounded...

The Belgian extremist suspected of masterminding the deadly attacks in Paris died a day ago along with his female cousin in a police raid on a suburban apartment building, French officials said Thursday, adding it was still not clear...