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Interior Minister Wolfgang Sobotka says Austria could seal the Brenner Pass to avoid being "overrun"…

As the mandate of an independent committee comes to a close, Mexico has opened an investigation into the head…

Left-wing protesters tried to prevent people from entering the party congress of the right-wing Alternative für Deut…

WASHINGTON/HONGKONG | By David Br…

The Turkish army carried out air strikes in rural parts of southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq, targeting logist…

A tanker that Libya's eastern government had been using to try to export oil in defiance of the rival administ…

BEIJING | By Ben Blanchard   Ch…

An Italian merchant ship rescued 26 migrants off the coast of Libya in rough seas and others were feared missing, …

Germany will ask the European Commission to allow an extension of temporary border controls within the Schengen zo…

Taiwan's ruling party on Saturday strongly condemned the deportation of 32 Taiwanese to China from Malaysia on…

Yemen's al Qaeda branch on Saturday confirmed it had withdrawn from the Yemeni seaport of Mukalla a week after…

BAGHDAD | By Saif Hameed and Ste…

When Chernobyl's nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, much of the radiation was blown north to Belarus. But despit…

By Pavel Aksenov BBC Russian, Vostochny   "Oh please, darling, fly!" A …

By Mark Savage Music reporter   Beyonce has shifted her focus f…

By Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News, North Korea     I'm sitting on a plane - th…

A judge in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, has banned night clubs from opening until they have set up proper…

Thousands of Argentines have staged a noisy protest against job cuts imposed under President Mauricio Macri's eco…

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Hundreds of protesters broke through barricades and threw eggs at police outside a California hotel where Republica…

Rescuers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi are searching for people feared trapped after the collapse of a residential …

The Syrian army says it is observing a partial and temporary truce with rebels known as a "regime of calm"…