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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany approved a delivery of weapons to Saudi Arabia, a government document showed on Wednesday, after saying it would halt arms sales to countries involved...

(Reuters) - Two people taken to hospital in the English town of Salisbury on Sunday evening after being taken ill in a restaurant have been discharged, police said on Wednesday....

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said on Thursday that his group will keep its military presence in Syria as long as Damascus wants. "We will stay there...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. talks with North Korea over efforts to end Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program will be completed by January 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Mike...

SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said he had a "good" meeting with the head of the country's Supreme Court earlier in...

By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is seeking to negotiate a treaty with Iran to include Tehran's ballistic missile program and its regional...

LESBOS, Greece (Reuters) - Hundreds of asylum-seekers stranded on Greece's Lesbos island are living in makeshift tents in a field overrun by garbage, without electricity or...

SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria will support Hungary in its standoff with the European Union over its democratic record, a Bulgarian deputy prime minister said on Wednesday, adding...

SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - The chairman of the body grouping European Union government leaders lashed out on Wednesday against those seeking to score political points by...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, is a time when many non-regular Israeli synagogue-goers take time to pray. It is also an annual...

By John Irish and Marine Pennetier PARIS (Reuters) - France will not name a new ambassador to Tehran before getting information from Iran following a foiled plot to bomb an...

By Brad Brooks and Anthony Boadle SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's presidential campaign, already the most divisive since the end of military rule three decades ago,...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Hungary's foreign minister lashed out at what he called "biased, pro-migration" U.N. human rights experts on Wednesday, accusing them of...

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's centrist President Martin Vizcarra said on Wednesday he was confident lawmakers would renew their confidence in his Cabinet and avert a situation that...

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian President Edgar Lungu fired a cabinet minister in charge of social welfare funds on Wednesday after Britain and Finland froze aid over suspicions that...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Wednesday advised British-Iranian dual nationals against all but essential travel to Iran, tightening up its existing travel advice and warning it...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday that U.S. accusations that Russia helped North Korea illegally obtain fuel through transfers at sea...

By Paul Carrel BERLIN (Reuters) - A clumsy compromise to end a row over the fate of Germany's spy chief has exposed a cruel fact: the parties in Chancellor Angela...

By Asif Shahzad and Saad Sayeed ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Wednesday ordered the release from jail of ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter,...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese police said on Wednesday they had arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with the theft of client information from Shanghai-based hotel operator...

By Elizabeth Piper and Gabriela Baczynska SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May received less than glowing praise for her Brexit plan on Wednesday, with top EU...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump hailed Wednesday's summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and said there...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A majority of Europeans support taking in refugees although many disapprove of how the European Union has handled a record influx of migrants that peaked three...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Pakistan ''always stands by Saudi Arabia,'' Prime Minister Imran Khan told Arabiya TV on Wednesday, during a visit to the kingdom....

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda on Wednesday banned rallies to welcome a prominent opponent of President Yoweri Museveni home from the United States where he received treatment for...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Egypt's government of mounting a crackdown on freedom of expression that had turned the country into an...

By Mark Hosenball LONDON (Reuters) - One of the leading British politicians pushing for a sharp exit from the European Union, Jacob Rees-Mogg, says he has no interest in joining a...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Police in Malaysia are investigating a case of alcohol poisoning that killed at least 21 people, with dozens more hospitalized, most of them citizens of...

By Paul Carsten ABUJA (Reuters) - Islamist militants have killed hundreds of soldiers in attacks in northeastern Nigeria in recent weeks, security and military sources say,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain welcomes the EU's commitment to finding a solution to the border on the island of Ireland after Brexit but any proposal cannot separate Northern...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is set to reject an improved offer from the European Union on how to solve the operation of the Irish border after Brexit,...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - France and Germany have called on China to close "re-education camps" in its restive far western region of Xinjiang where up to...

By Abdul Qadir Sediqi and James Mackenzie KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan police and volunteer groups of armed civilians tightened controls across the capital Kabul on Wednesday ahead of...

By Alister Doyle, Elizabeth Culliford and Lucas Jackson GREENLAND (Reuters) - Flying over eastern Greenland, the NASA scientists stared down from a Gulfstream jet as it followed...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Afghanistan's deputy foreign minister will visit Moscow on Thursday to discuss the dates of a new round of Moscow peace talks on Afghanistan, Interfax news...