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After an emergency cabinet meeting on Friday in Munich, Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer said the federal government’s departure from standard European Union asylum practice was endangering the stability of Germany’s federal states.

A group of people allegedly preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in the Russian capital of Moscow have been arrested during counter-terrorism raids.

The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership involves the United States and the European Union.

Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook disclosed few details, except to say that the discussions took place between United States defence officials and their counterparts in Moscow and focused on “steps that can be taken” by Russian and US-led coalition aircraft “to...

The killing of a commander in the Revolutionary Guards Corps at the hands of ISIS also highlights the extent of Iranian involvement in Syria and the dire straits in which Assad finds himself, Washington-based analysts say.

Two young cousins were found alive in Kentucky’s Red River Gorge area after going missing and surviving a night in the wilderness.

The Russian ambassador in London, Alexander Yakovenko, said he “urgently requested explanations” from the Foreign Office, The Times said.

Syiah-dominated Iran is Assad’s strongest regional ally and it has sent Guards as military advisers to help him against Sunni Muslim rebels seeking his overthrow.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party said Sunday it has told President Jacob Zuma’s government to withdraw South Africa’s membership from the worldwide Criminal Court (ICC).

For Labour, shadow minister without portfolio Jon Ashworth said the Conservatives are “failing working people” and Mr Cameron is delivering the opposite to his pledges.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has broken his silence over the mob lynching of a Muslim man, Mohammad Akhlaq, rumoured to have eaten beef the BBC reports.

His comments come following the arrest of 19 Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan navy on Saturday off the coast of Vadamaradchi East. Sri Lanka’s main opposition leader R. Sampanthan was quoted, as saying during a debate in parliament on Friday that incursions by Indian...

At least 10 to 15 Shiv Sena activists attacked Sudheendra Kulkarni, organiser of former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s book launch, hours before event, NDTV reported. “Sainiks attacked me outside my home”. When I came out, they smeared me...

67-year-old Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich is the victor of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, and the 14th woman to win the award since its inauguration in 1901.

It’s understood the shooting occurred at around 6.30pm this evening in Omeath, County Louth.