[ad_1] SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – North Korea said on Wednesday it had conducted a test of an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) to counter U.S. and South Korean military drills and as a first step in military…

[ad_1] COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh from escalating violence in Myanmar face the growing danger of sickness and attempts by the Bangladesh authorities to send them home, despite a United…

[ad_1] GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations on Tuesday said it was “disturbed” by the decision of Guatemala’s president to expel the head of a U.N.-backed anti-corruption unit investigating his campaign financing. It called for…

[ad_1] ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for U.N. nuclear inspectors to visit its military bases as “merely a dream” as Washington reviews a 2015 nuclear agreement between Tehran and six world…

[ad_1] KABUL (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up at a bank close to the heavily protected U.S. embassy compound in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing at least four people and wounding several,…

[ad_1] TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired a missile that flew over Japan and landed in waters off the northern region of Hokkaido early on Tuesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, marking a sharp…

[ad_1] BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia has sent a letter of protest to Venezuela after it said security forces from the socialist country crossed the border into the Colombian province of La Guajira over the weekend,…

[ad_1] AL-‘AYADIYA/BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraqi forces said they faced tough resistance on Monday from Islamic State fighters driven out of the city of Tal Afar to a small town where they had “nothing to lose”…

[ad_1] BEIRUT (Reuters) – The Syrian army and Hezbollah on Monday prepared to escort Islamic State fighters to eastern Syria from their enclave on the border with Lebanon under an agreement following a week-long offensive…

[ad_1] COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Myanmar security forces intensified operations against Rohingya insurgents on Monday, police and other sources said, following three days of clashes with militants in the worst violence involving Myanmar’s Muslim…

[ad_1] NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and China have agreed to an “expeditious disengagement” of troops at a disputed border area where their soldiers have been locked in stand-off for more than two months, the…

[ad_1] SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The U.S. Navy on Monday confirmed recovery of the remains of all 10 sailors killed after the warship John S. McCain collided with a merchant vessel in waters near Singapore and…

[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) – British officials arrive in Brussels on Monday to push the EU towards talks about their post-Brexit ties, which the bloc refuses to do without an agreement first on London’s exit bill…

[ad_1] MANILA (Reuters) – The father of the leaders of the pro-Islamic State Maute group that seized control of a southern Philippine town in May died while in government custody, authorities said on Sunday. Cayamora…

[ad_1] TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi forces have retaken almost all of Tal Afar, Islamic State’s stronghold in the country’s northwest, the Iraqi military said on Sunday. After just eight days of fighting, all…

[ad_1] BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist FARC rebel group will debut its political party at a conference beginning on Sunday, a key step in its transition into a civilian organization after more than 50 years…

[ad_1] YANGON/COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Myanmar’s government said it has evacuated at least 4,000 non-Muslim villagers amid ongoing clashes in northwestern Rakhine state, as thousands more Rohingya Muslims sought to flee across the border…

[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s military has promoted an army general who fought Vietnam in a brief border war in 1979, the Defence Ministry said, part of a broad reshuffle expected as part of this…

[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will urge the European Union on Monday to show “imagination” in Brexit talks and help focus discussion on future ties rather than on a divorce settlement. Brexit minister David Davis…

[ad_1] BONDO, Switzerland (Reuters) – Swiss officials on Saturday called off a search for eight people missing since a huge landslide struck near the border with Italy, acknowledging they were likely to be buried under…

[ad_1] TAL AFAR, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraqi forces raised the national flag on Saturday in the heart of Tal Afar, Islamic State’s stronghold in the country’s northwest, and said they were poised to take full…

[ad_1] SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Militants killed three Indian policemen in the Kashmir valley after storming into a police camp on Saturday in their biggest strike on a government compound in the disputed region in…

[ad_1] SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands of people rallied for marriage equality in Australia’s second-biggest city of Melbourne on Saturday ahead of a postal survey on same-sex marriage which could lead to its legalisation. Australia is…

[ad_1] MANILA (Reuters) – More than a thousand mourners attended a funeral procession in the capital Manila’s northern suburb on Saturday for a high school student, whose killing last week by anti-drugs officers has caused…

[ad_1] SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea early on Saturday fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast from its eastern Kangwon province, South Korea’s military said. The South Korean Office of the…

[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – The suspected mastermind of an international drug-smuggling operation was arrested in London and faces extradition to the United States on charges that carry at least 30 years in prison, prosecutors…

[ad_1] VARNA, Bulgaria/WARSAW (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday Poland was isolating itself within the European Union and Polish citizens “deserve better” than a government at odds with the bloc’s democratic values…

[ad_1] PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – A Cambodian court jailed an opposition politician for five years on Friday over a Facebook post in which he criticized the deployment of troops to the border with Laos. A…

[ad_1] SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull urged supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage to show mutual respect as their campaigns turned increasingly vitriolic ahead of a vote on the issue next month.…

[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – The Chinese military needs to be on its guard against corruption rearing its head again, the official People’s Liberation Army Daily said on Friday, warning the arrow cannot be put back…