China's Xinjiang region has started a “one-year crackdown” on “violent terrorist activities,” the official Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, providing no further details. The troubled Xinjiang region in western China, home to a large Muslim Uihgur minority, ...

Mark Kingwell is professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto and author, most recently, of the essay collection Unruly Voices. Last weekend, I joined a number of North American and European writers and academics who travelled to Kiev to spend four ...

China loudly denied all state-sponsored hacking for trade secrets and is lashing out at the United States as a cybersecurity “hypocrite.” The U.S. has “deliberately fabricated the so-called facts to file indictment against five Chinese military officials,” China's ...

In what could represent a decisive turning point in the Ukrainian conflict and a setback for Russia, thousands of steelworkers fanned out Thursday over the city of Mariupol, establishing control over the streets and routing the pro-Kremlin militants who seized ...

The United Nations in South Sudan was readying aid on Saturday for towns ravaged by conflict but was waiting to see if a new ceasefire deal holds between the president and rebel leader before sending it. President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek ...

The United Nations in South Sudan was readying aid on Saturday for towns ravaged by conflict but was waiting to see if a new ceasefire deal holds between the president and rebel leader before sending it. President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek ...

The United Nations in South Sudan was readying aid on Saturday for towns ravaged by conflict but was waiting to see if a new ceasefire deal holds between the president and rebel leader before sending it. President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek ...

Six-year-old Abdul Maqsood stood outside his neighbour's simple mud-brick home, staring aghast at the damage caused by a landslide which had slammed into his village in remote northeast Afghanistan. Then the rumbling started. Maqsood had no idea that ...

Spanish police have arrested the man who racially insulted Barcelona defender Dani Alves by throwing a banana at him, with reports claiming the perpetrator worked for Villarreal. Police confirmed 26-year-old David Campayo Lleo was arrested, with Spanish ...

Syria missed its second deadline for the destruction of its chemical weapons arsenal on Sunday, but it may be only days away from completing the job, according to international experts overseeing the process. The Syrian government had agreed to complete ...

South Korea's prime minister has tendered his resignation amid widespread anger over the country's response to a ferry disaster that has taken hundreds of young lives and opened a painful season of soul-searching. “I'd like to apologize for the mishandling ...

Mr. Abbas's comments appeared aimed at soothing Western concerns about the unity deal he reached on Wednesday with Hamas, an Islamist faction sworn to Israel's destruction and designated by Washington as a terrorist organization.

The United States and other nations in the Group of Seven say they have agreed to “move swiftly” to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia in response to its actions in Ukraine. In a joint statement released Friday night by the White House, the G-7 ...

Twitter Inc. said on Tuesday it bought social data provider Gnip for an undisclosed amount, signalling that it would take on a new role of packaging and selling data, a service in demand by business and government. The social media company said separately ...

Twitter Inc. said on Tuesday it bought social data provider Gnip for an undisclosed amount, signalling that it would take on a new role of packaging and selling data, a service in demand by business and government. The social media company said separately ...

Suspected Muslim extremists kidnapped about 100 girls Tuesday from a school in northeastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital – a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ...

Suspected Muslim extremists kidnapped about 100 girls Tuesday from a school in northeastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital – a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ...

Suspected Muslim extremists kidnapped about 100 girls Tuesday from a school in northeastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital – a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the military's ...

Egypt's official news agency says a bomb blast on a bridge over the Nile River in central Cairo has wounded two policemen. MENA says the device went off during the morning rush hour on Tuesday, targeting a traffic police booth on the al-Galaa bridge.

Pro-Russian separatists on Monday ignored an ultimatum to leave occupied government buildings in eastern Ukraine and instead seized more buildings as the government failed to follow through on a threatened military crackdown. U.S. President Barack ...