Four years after having brought about the fall of long-ruling autocrat Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in Libya, Europe has to come to terms with the law of unintended consequences.
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A fire at a prison in northern Venezuela killed 17 people and injured 11, prosecutors said Monday. The fire at the Tocuyito facility in Carabobo state overnight left nine men and eight women dead…
Police hunting for the perpetrators of Thailand’s deadliest bombing have arrested a second foreign suspect, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday. The male suspect was arrested in Sa…
Afghanistan’s president called for a “holy war” against corruption on Tuesday, one of the major problems facing his war-torn country as he is struggling to improve its economy and create jobs.…
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday the US-led coalition’s campaign against Islamic State militant group was not doing as well as had been hoped in Syria and parts of Iraq.
A suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded dozens on Tuesday in northwest Pakistan, where security forces are battling militants, officials said.
Al-Shabab militants attacked an African Union base in southern Somalia early on Tuesday, the group and residents said, in which dozens of soldiers were reportedly killed.
The Al-Qaeda-…
Three journalists in the Philippines have been shot dead just days apart, press groups said Tuesday, as they warned of further media bloodshed without serious government action.
A grenade exploded outside Ukraine’s Parliament during a nationalist protest against a vote to give greater powers to separatist regions in the east, killing one police officer, the interior…
Malaysia’s premier vowed on Sunday he would not quit over a $700-million financial scandal, and accused protesters of showing “poor national spirit” by holding a massive rally to demand his…
Egypt will hold a long-awaited parliamentary election in two phases starting October 18-19, the election commission said on Sunday.
The first phase of voting was due to begin in March but…
European Union ministers were summoned on Sunday to meet in two weeks’ time to seek urgent solutions to a migration crisis unprecedented in the bloc’s history, as the mounting death toll on land…
A major hospital in Yemen’s capital Sana’a is on the verge of shutting down as a result of a supply shortage caused by a Saudi-led coalition blockade, rights group Save the Children warned.
Three policemen, a 12-year-old boy and three Kurdish forces died Sunday in continuing violence in Turkey’s restive Kurdish-dominated southeast, a local security source said.
Two policemen…
Nigerian security services arrested several prominent Boko Haram commanders in the country’s Lagos, Kano, Plateau, Enugu and Gombe states in July and August, a statement from the Nigerian…
The mayor of a remote, Islamic State-held town in western Iraq said on Monday some 200 residents have been detained by the group at an unknown location following clashes there. Trouble in Rutbah,…
“Shocked,” “sickened” and “appalled” were appropriate words to describe the international reactions, and some of the local ones, to the second sentencing of Al Jazeera journalists and their…
Japan’s Ministry of Defense is seeking a fourth straight annual military budget hike to help fortify the country’s far-flung island chain in the East China Sea, close to ocean territory claimed by…
South Sudan’s rebels and government traded accusations on Sunday just hours after a ceasefire between the two came into effect.
Rebels said the army had fired on some of their…
An airstrike by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah on Sunday, residents said.
In another air raid…
The Islamic State group has executed more than 90 people, a third of them civilians, over the past month in areas of war-torn Syria under its control, a monitoring group said Sunday.
The…
Thai police raided a second location and widened search for more suspects on Sunday after a foreigner was arrested with stacks of fake passports and bomb-making material.
Gunmen attacked a small airport in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing one official and kidnapping another, authorities said.
Crowds of yellow-clad Malaysians demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Razak converged on central Kuala Lumpur again on Sunday, a day after tens of thousands paralyzed the capital in a…
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered near Japan's Parliament building on Sunday to oppose legislation allowing the military to fight overseas, the latest sign of public mistrust in Prime…
