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Until the summer of 2016, South Sudan’s Yei region was a leafy oasis in the midst of the country’s civil…

President Donald Trump has pulled bereaved military families into a painful political fight of his own making, going so far…

The only son of fugitive former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has been formally charged with money-laundering, the Department of…

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy appealed to Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to “act sensibly” on Wednesday, as a government deadline…

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday urged a reinvigorated Communist Party to take on a more forceful role in society…

Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga decided not to stand in next week’s presidential election to avoid defeat rather than for…

Thousands more Rohingya Muslims are fleeing large-scale violence and persecution in Myanmar and crossing into Bangladesh, where more than half…

Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s conviction for fraud in 2014 had…

China’s official Xinhua news agency attacked Western democracy as divisive and confrontational on Tuesday, praising on the eve of a…

American author George Saunders is the bookmakers’ favorite to win the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction with his novel…