Washington (dpa) - US president Barack Obama is to issue on Monday a final, tougher version of rules aimed at limiting carbon emissions from power plants that are expected to seal a key part of his presidential legacy. He signalled his intent in

Beirut (dpa) - At least 23 people were killed as a result of aerial bombings by the Syrian government and the subsequent crash of a war plane near a market area in north-western Idlib province, activists said Monday. The incident took place in A

New Delhi (dpa) - More than 100 people have been killed, most of them in India's eastern states, during heavy rains and floods over the past week, officials said Monday. More than 4 million people in 10,000 villages were affected in the stat

MUZAFFARGARH, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police gunned down one of the country's most-feared Sunni militant leaders and 13 followers in a mysterious pre-dawn shootout Wednesday, killing a man believed to behind the slaughter of hundreds of

Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - Sacked Malaysian deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin on Wednesday appealed for unity among his supporters. "I advise my supporters to put priority on party and country and not do something that will cause a split,&qu

Dhaka (dpa) - A Bangladeshi opposition leader saw his death sentence upheld Wednesday for crimes against humanity during the war of independence with Pakistan in 1971. Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, was

Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel fought Friday against a possible rebellion in her government's ranks over a new bailout for Athens, warning of a catastrophe for cash-strapped Greece if a new aid deal is not struck. Greece coul

China on Thursday urged Tokyo to avoid "crippling regional peace and security", after the lower house of Japan's parliament passed bills that could see Japanese troops fight abroad for the first time since World War II. "It is f

South Korea on Friday invited a North Korean vice defence minister to attend an international security conference in September in Seoul, despite cross-border military tensions, officials said. The invitation was sent by South Korea's vice de

The nuclear deal that will lift tough sanctions on Iran is mobilizing Saudi Arabia to turn the tide against its regional rival in Yemen and Syria before it makes an economic recovery, military officials and analysts say. According to the sour

At least 18 people are dead after ethnic Uighurs attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint in China's western Xinjiang region, Radio Free Asia reported on Wednesday. The attack occurred on Monday in a district of the southe

The United States National Security Agency spied on French presidents Jacques Chirac, Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement published on Tuesday, citing top secret intelligence reports and technical documents.

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian court postponed issuing a final ruling over a death sentence recommendation for former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and other top Muslim Brotherhood leaders in a case related to a 2011 jail break. The judge said

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will back Syria's President Bashar al-Assad until the end, Iranian news agencies quoted President Hassan Rouhani as saying, signaling undimmed support for Tehran's Arab ally following major gains by armed opposition f

BEIRUT (Reuters) - The United States has accused the Syrian military of carrying out air strikes to help Islamic State fighters advance around the northern city of Aleppo, messages posted on the U.S. Embassy Syria official Twitter feed said. Isl

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Rescuers fought bad weather on Tuesday as they searched for more than 400 people, many of them elderly Chinese tourists, missing after a ship capsized on the Yangtze River in what was likely China's worst shipping di

An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced the country's first freely elected leader, ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, to death over a mass prison break during the 2011 uprising that eventually brought him to power. The ruling appl

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza on Sunday made his first official appearance since an attempted coup against him this week, AFP reporters said. The president smiled and appeared relaxed as he greeted the press at the presidential p

The UN envoy to Yemen called for the extension of a five-day pause in a Saudi-led air war which was due to end later Sunday expressing hope it could become permanent. "I call on all parties to renew their commitment to this truce for fi

A US special forces raid in eastern Syria killed 32 members of the Islamic State jihadist group, including four leaders, a monitoring group said Sunday. "The US operation killed 32 members of IS, among them four officials, includi

Islamic State militants clashed with security forces inside Iraq's largest refinery on Thursday and held on to recent gains in the west of the country, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the extremist group remained "very, very dan

Kenya has begun three days of mourning following the massacre of over 100 students by militant group al-Shabab. Easter ceremonies will be held to remember the 148 victims of the attack on Garissa University, and flags are expected to fly at

UNITED NATIONS/ADEN (Reuters) - Russia and the Red Cross appealed on Saturday for a military pause in Yemen to allow urgent humanitarian aid deliveries and evacuation of civilians after 10 days of Saudi-led air strikes and fighting in which hundreds

DUBAI/BEIRUT (Reuters) - All United Nations Security Council resolutions related to Iran's nuclear program will be lifted immediately if a final deal is agreed, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday, stressing the benefits to Ira

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Almost all Shi'ite paramilitaries had left Tikrit on Saturday after locals complained that some fighters had spent several days looting the Sunni city after helping retake it from Islamic State. "Most of the (paramilit

BEIJING (Reuters) - China executed three accused separatists on Tuesday for their role in an attack that killed 31 people at a train station in the southwest last year, a court said.   The government has said the attack, in the southw

YANGON (Reuters) – - A senior member of Myanmar's government has said members of the U.S.-based Carter Center and the European Union will be invited to monitor a general election later this year, the first time in at least 65 years that

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The people of Syria feel "increasingly abandoned by the world" as global attention focuses on Islamic State militants, while violence and government bureaucracy hinder attempts to deliver aid to 12 million peop

Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right and drew an immediate rebuke from the White House.

Damascus (AFP) - Syria's military shot down a US drone over the coastal province of Latakia, a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad, state media said on Tuesday. The US military confirmed that it had lost communication with an unarmed Preda