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US probe finds single attacker in Kabul evacuation...
An attack that killed at least 173 people including 13 US service members during the chaotic Kabul airport evacuation last year wa...
In Chernobyl ghost town, Ukraine forces train for...
Machine gun fire echoed through the abandoned buildings of Pripyat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, as Ukrainian National Guard tr...
China ups stakes for Biden by backing Moscow again...
China's support for Russia in the standoff over Ukraine upends the strategic calculus for US President Joe Biden, who must now con...
Venezuela marks 30 years since Chavez's failed but...
The Venezuelan president's daughter was on the telephone when the first shells hit the official residence in Caracas 30 years ago...
Beijing Olympics open under shadow of rights fears...
President Xi Jinping declared the Beijing Winter Olympics open Friday as China tried to turn the page on a build-up overshadowed b...
US lawmakers to vote on China competition bill
US lawmakers were due to vote Friday on a multibillion-dollar bill aimed at jumpstarting high-tech research and manufacturing, cou...
Stoltenberg to leave NATO after battle to keep US...
NATO's outgoing leader Jens Stoltenberg will leave the alliance late this year after a diplomatic battle to hold it together again...
Macron the mediator wades into Russia-Ukraine cris...
French President Emmanuel Macron will fly to Russia and Ukraine next week in an attempt to avert conflict between the neighbours,...
NIreland court orders post-Brexit port checks to r...
Northern Ireland's High Court on Friday issued an interim order suspending a decision by Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots to stop...
European stocks retreat after positive start, oil...
European equities retreated from a positive start Friday as investors await key US jobs data after being spooked by a possible eur...
Russia wins Chinese backing in showdown over Ukrai...
Russia won China's backing in its showdown with the West over Ukraine on Friday, as Beijing agreed with Moscow that the US-led NAT...
Beijing Olympics opening ceremony starts under clo...
The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics began on Friday as China attempted to turn the page on a troubled build-up ove...
Death of IS chief: what we know
A day after the death of Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi during a US raid in Syria, many questions remain on the opera...
Myanmar's Suu Kyi back in court after health no-sh...
Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi returned to a junta court on Friday after skipping a previous hearing because she felt unwe...
After eight years of war, Ukraine's army a tougher...
When he arrived at the front line as a volunteer to fight Russian-backed separatists in 2014, Pavlo Dolynskiy found Ukraine's army...
'Bless that woman': Hondurans look to tiny icon, a...
Thousands of Honduran believers descended on their country's most famous religious icon Thursday, praying for an end to the Cathol...
Ahead of Beijing Games, is China really 'a winter...
Beijing says it met and even exceeded its target to make more than 300 million Chinese people winter sports enthusiasts since it w...
Nicaragua court finds activists guilty of 'conspir...
A Nicaraguan court Thursday found two prominent opposition figures guilty of "conspiracy," according to a human rights organizatio...
Costa Rica: Central America's green pin-up
Costa Rica, which elects a new president Sunday, is a small country thriving on ecotourism. Its neutrality, strong democracy and p...
Ex-heavyweights resurrected in Costa Rica polls, b...
There is a feeling of uncertainty hanging over one of Latin America's most stable democracies as Costa Rica heads to the polls on...
Private military contractors bolster Russian influ...
Russia's geopolitical ambitions in Africa have in recent years been backed by private military contractors, often described as bel...
Repsol says Peru oil spill will be cleaned up in M...
Spanish energy giant Repsol on Thursday vowed to finish by March cleaning up a devastating oil spill that has polluted beaches and...
Europe to fore in Ukraine crisis as US warns of Ru...
The leaders of Turkey and France attempted to mediate in the Ukraine crisis on Thursday as Washington announced it had evidence of...
US claims evidence of Moscow plan for 'false flag'...
The Pentagon said Thursday it had evidence of a plan by Moscow to film a fake Ukrainian attack on Russians to justify a real assau...
'Incredibly complex': the US raid that killed IS c...
By early December US intelligence was certain: the man occupying the top floor of a nondescript house in Atme, northern Syria -- w...
Beijing Olympics set to open under cloud of Covid,...
A Winter Olympics overshadowed by rights concerns and Covid will officially begin in Beijing on Friday with an opening ceremony at...
Xi to meet Putin as tensions rise with West
China's President Xi Jinping is poised for his first face-to-face meeting with a world leader in nearly two years on Friday when h...
Using military to end trucker protest 'not in the...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday poured cold water on sending in the military to clear protestors opposed to Cov...
From Kansas school teacher to Islamic State battal...
On a scale of one to 10 of jihadist radicalization, an American woman alleged to have led an all-female Islamic State battalion in...
Tibetans protest 'Games of shame' at Olympic HQ
Around 500 Tibetans marched outside the International Olympic Committee headquarters on Thursday, led by an activist on skis dragg...
'Incredibly complex': the raid that killed IS chie...
By early December, US intelligence was certain of it: the man occupying the top floor of a nondescript house in Atme, northern Syr...
US raid on IS leader boosts Biden's foreign policy...
The daring US helicopter raid deep in Syria that ended in the death of one of the world's most wanted men gives Joe Biden the kind...
Biden says IS leader killed, removing 'major terro...
President Joe Biden said Thursday a global "terrorist threat" was removed when the head of the Islamic State blew himself up after...
Erdogan offers Ukraine-Russia summit as Europe pus...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered Thursday on a visit to Kyiv to hold a Ukraine-Russia summit, as EU leaders stepped...
Biden says 'major terrorist' blew himself up in US...
President Joe Biden said Thursday a global "terrorist threat" was removed when the head of the Islamic State group blew himself up...
Myanmar junta slams 'dictating' UN rights chief
Myanmar's junta on Thursday slammed "dictating" remarks by the United Nations human rights chief and accused the body of interferi...
Brazil's Bolsonaro tweets support for podcaster Ro...
Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro tweeted his support for embattled American podcast host Joe Rogan, whose spreading of...
IS chief blows himself up during US raid in Syria
US special forces carried out a nighttime airborne raid Thursday in northwestern Syria during which the head of the Islamic State...
Beijing Games set to open as Peng Shuai allegation...
Thomas Bach will meet Peng Shuai at the Beijing Winter Olympics to assess her "physical integrity and her mental state", the IOC c...