South Sudan’s president has granted amnesty to armed opposition leader Riek Machar and all rebel groups days after signing a power-sharing agreement in the latest effort to end a five-year civil war.
Polish police say they are evacuating more than 2,000 people after the discovery of an unexploded World War II-era bomb weighing some 250 kilograms (550 pounds).
Yemeni tribal leaders say airstrikes in northern Yemen have targeted a busy market and a bus, killing at least 20 people, including children, and wounding as many as 35.
Malaysia’s leader called Thursday for more international exchange among young people as a way to prevent war and terrorism, as he received an honorary degree from a like-minded university in Japan.
A German pilots union is joining Friday’s strike against Ryanair along with colleagues from Ireland, Sweden and Belgium at the peak of the vacation travel season.
The Philippine military says troops have killed two bomb couriers at an army checkpoint before the suspected Muslim militants could detonate the explosives in a crowded area in the restive south.
Aid groups say the international airport in Yemen’s capital has been hit with an average of one bomb every two weeks since a Saudi-led coalition closed it to all commercial traffic two years ago.
Three or four days a week, Ogochukwu Efeizomor takes a train from Lecco, a lakeside town where he stays in a center for migrants, to Italy’s financial capital, Milan.
An international rights group is urging the U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State group to investigate airstrikes that killed civilians in the campaign to liberate the Syrian city of Raqqa.
Russia’s prime minister has issued a stern warning to NATO on the 10th anniversary of the Russia-Georgia war that incorporating Georgia could trigger a new 'horrible' conflict.
The Israeli military says it has targeted a Hamas military post in northern Gaza after militants opened fire, and Hamas says two of its fighters were killed.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says Indonesia has handed over a luxury yacht allegedly bought with money stolen in the multibillion-dollar looting of a state investment fund.
A journalists’ association in Hong Kong says it will defy the Chinese government and follow through with a planned speech by an activist advocating independence from China.
A cyberattack that breached 1.5 million health records in Singapore has been attributed to sophisticated attackers who may be state-linked, a Cabinet minister said Monday.
A human rights group is calling on Bangladesh’s government to abandon plans to relocate Rohingya refugees to a small, uninhabited island said to be at severe risk of serious flooding.
BMW AG’s Korean unit apologized Monday over engine fires that prompted recalls and a probe, seeking to allay concerns over images of cars engulfed in flames.
Police in Bangladesh’s capital fired tear gas Monday to disperse hundreds of demonstrating students, while a prominent human rights group demanded the release of an activist arrested for criticizing the government during more than a week of protests.
The bodies of three Russian journalists who were killed in Central African Republic have been brought back to Moscow, where they are to undergo a forensic examination.
Britain’s international trade minister says it’s likely the U.K. will fail to agree upon a divorce deal with the European Union before it leaves the bloc next March.
A Taliban suicide bomber killed three NATO forces on a foot patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday in an attack that also wounded a U.S. soldier and two Afghan troops, NATO said in a statement.
An old-time propeller plane operated by a company that offers panoramic flights has crashed in the Swiss Alps. There was no immediate word on casualties.
Iran acquired five new commercial aircraft on Sunday, a day before the U.S. begins restoring sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear accord with world powers.
India’s Gaganjeet Bhullar held out a record-breaking charge from Australian Anthony Quale Sunday to win the Fiji International by one stroke while Ernie Els shot a 7-under 65 to finish a further stroke behind.
Zimbabwean soldiers were searching parts of the capital for opposition supporters to detain after the disputed election, the country’s main opposition party said Saturday, as some already were in court.
One of Germany’s most prominent left-wing politicians is launching a self-styled new 'movement' that she says is aimed at reviving the fortunes of the country’s ailing left. However, it’s being met with widespread skepticism.
Alison Aguilar and Delaney Spaulding drove in three runs each as the United States beat Taiwan 7-0 Saturday to improve to 2-0 in Group A at the women’s softball world championship, a qualifier for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
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An Australian graduate student whose honeymoon plans in Indonesia included a cultural festival in the insecure Papua region says she’s being deported after officials accused her of being a journalist.
For years, public service announcements warned Israelis to save water: Take shorter showers. Plant resilient gardens. Conserve. Then Israel invested heavily in desalination technology and professed to have solved the problem by tapping into the abundant waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The once ubiquitous conservation warnings vanished.
With their heads bowed and wearing orange robes, the members of the boys’ soccer team rescued from almost three weeks trapped in a cave in northern Thailand on Saturday completed their time as novice Buddhist monks.
French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with British Prime minister Theresa May on Friday evening to discuss Brexit issues in the presidential residence in southern France.
Relatives of Chinese passengers who were aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said Friday they refuse to accept the latest report on the plane’s disappearance four years ago and demand the search be restarted.
Thousands of Romanians gathered at an airfield on the edge of the capital, Bucharest, for a weekend of aerobatics and air power offered by more than 200 pilots and 150 aircraft from multiple countries.
Germany’s highest court has thrown out a notorious elderly neo-Nazi’s case against her conviction for Holocaust denial, ruling that her activities are not covered by a constitutional guarantee of freedom of expression.
A dozen ancient artifacts have been returned to Thailand by a private American collector as the Southeast Asian country presses for other treasures that were taken abroad to be given back.
The Swedish prosecutor in charge of investigating whether police committed an error when fatally shooting a 20-year-old disabled man who waved a toy gun, said Friday that it has emerged that several officers opened fire.
Much of the Iberian Peninsula is experiencing the year’s first heatwave, with the mercury expected to soar before peaking at 47 degrees Celsius (116.6 Fahrenheit) in some areas of southern Portugal this weekend.
An Afghan official says three foreign workers were abducted in Kabul earlier in the day and their bodies were later found in one of the city’s more dangerous neighborhoods.
Triathlon events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be staged on the large man-made island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay and will start early in the morning to counter the heat that is expected in the Japanese capital.
China appealed to Washington on Thursday to stay calm and 'correct its attitude' following a U.S. threat to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods in a dispute over technology policy.
The nationalist Alternative for Germany party is distancing itself from a member who reportedly described as a 'traitor' a leader of a failed 1944 attempt by officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Posing as customers, the three men entered a little New Delhi workshop early one morning. Then one pulled out a gun, and the trio demanded the most valuable thing there: Hair.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says there were no signs of torture on the bodies of three Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic this week.
Congo’s former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has returned to the country to register as a presidential candidate in December’s long-delayed election, a decade after his arrest in Belgium led to a trial at the International Criminal Court.
Germany’s government has initiated legislation that would make online retailers liable for sales tax that isn’t paid by vendors based outside the country.
An Amnesty International employee has been targeted with Israeli-made surveillance software, the human rights group said Wednesday, adding to a growing number of examples of Israeli technology being used to spy on human rights workers and opposition figures in the Middle East and beyond.
Decades after the end of the Korean War in 1953, the remains of dozens of presumed U.S. war dead began their journey home following a repatriation ceremony in South Korea on Wednesday.
The start of the African track and field championships in Nigeria has been delayed after hundreds of athletes were stranded at an airport, some for three days when they were left to sleep on the floor as they waited for a connecting flight to the host city.
The U.N. children’s agency is warning of another cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water facilities and other civilian infrastructure in the port city of Hodeida.
Britain’s foreign secretary is visiting Austria, which holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, bringing his warnings about a 'messy divorce' with the EU that could poison future relations.
Police used helicopters to chase thieves who stole priceless treasures from the Swedish royal regalia displayed in a cathedral over the weekend, including a jeweled crown, but the bandits escaped by motorboat and remain at large.
An Illinois man who worked as a spokesman for a 'darknet' marketplace used for illegal online sales is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Atlanta.
The U.S. military in Africa has taken steps to increase the security of troops on the ground, adding armed drones and armored vehicles and taking a harder look at when American forces go out with local troops, the head of the U.S. Africa Command says.
Swiss bank Credit Suisse is warning that trade tensions and rising interest rates 'are likely to trigger periods of heightened uncertainty through the remainder of 2018.'
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