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MOSCOW - Authorities say a bomb planted under or inside a car has killed a senior Ukrainian military intelligence officer in the country’s capital. Photos from the scene showed the mangled vehic...

BEIJING - A second landslide struck the village in southwest China where rescue workers have been looking for nearly 100 people buried over the weekend by a massive wave of rocks and debris. Chinese s...

JERUSALEM - A senior ultra-Orthodox Israeli lawmaker on Tuesday dismissed the protestations of liberal Jews over alternative access to Jerusalem’s Western Wall as provocations, saying they don&#...

GAZA, Palestinian Territory - The Israeli military says it has struck a pair of Hamas militant sites in Gaza after a projectile fired from the seaside territory landed in southern Israel. Tuesday̵...

BEIJING - China has pre-emptively hit back at the United States for speaking “irresponsibly” ahead of an expected Trump administration move to name China among the world’s worst huma...

MUNICH - U.S. Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said Tuesday that America will continue to provide weapons to Syrian Kurdish fighters after the battle to oust Islamic State militants from Raqqa, Syria, is ...

WASHINGTON - Democrats are out to capitalize on what they believe is growing public sentiment that President Donald Trump, the richest man to call the White House home, is turning his back on the peop...

PARIS - France’s newly elected lawmakers, most of them from President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party, took part in their first parliamentary session Tuesday. Macron’s 14-month-old ...

BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-left rivals said Tuesday they would seek a parliamentary vote this week on legalizing gay marriage after the German leader backed off her conservatives...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia is demolishing centuries-old homes in a Shiite town, levelling a historic district that officials say has become a hideout for local militants. The destructi...