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Two earthquakes have rocked western Nepal, injuring 17 people, damaging homes and triggering a landslide that blocked a major highway, authorities said. The landslide after the quakes of magnitude 6.3 and 5.3 in the district of Bajhang,…

Turkish police have detained about 145 people across the country overnight suspected of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), state media reported. The detention comes, two days after a bomb attack in Ankara claimed by the…

Venezuela's opposition election commission said it will move forward with its late October primary vote to pick its presidential candidate for next year's general election after the country's national electoral council sought a delay. The…

The United Nations Security Council has authorized a foreign security mission to Haiti, a year after the Caribbean country asked for help to fight violent gangs that have largely overrun its capital Port-au-Prince. "More than just a simple…

India has told Canada that it must repatriate 41 diplomats by October 10, the Financial Times reported. Ties between India and Canada have become seriously strained over Canadian suspicion that Indian government agents had a role in the…

Yemen's national airline will suspend the only international commercial flight from Yemen's capital Sanaa in response to the Houthi administration blocking the carrier from withdrawing its funds from Sanaa banks. Report says Yemenia will…

US Central Command forces conducted a helicopter raid in northern Syria capturing Mamduh Ibrahim al-Haji Shaykh, an Islamic State facilitator, Central Command said. Last week, the Central Command forces said it had captured Abu Halil…

Sweden’s prime minister has said that the military will soon assist the police with some duties to help deal with an unprecedented crime wave that has shocked the Scandinavian country with almost daily shootings and bombings. Prime…

The Afghan embassy in India has suspended all operations after the ambassador and other senior diplomats left the country for Europe and the United States where they gained asylum, three embassy officials said. India does not recognise…

Italy's coast guard has rescued 177 people including 27 crew from a ferry that caught fire travelling from the Italian island of Lampedusa to Porto Empedocle in Sicily, it said. The ferry's passengers included 83 migrants being transferred…