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Having unnerved the foreign policy establishment with some of the key steps that he has taken, US President-elect Donald Trump has said that America's foreign policy lacked a clear vision, a clear goal and a clear understanding of the threats the country...

US diplomatic tradition has long held to this policy, which does not recognise self-administered Taiwan as a sovereign state but sees Beijing as the sole representative.

US President Barack Obama has asked his top aides to take steps to de-escalate the violence and push for humanitarian access in Aleppo, hours after the UN said pro-government forces have killed at least 82 civilians including women and children in the bes...

Months after India dragged the US to WTO over imposing increased fees on H-1B and L-1 visas, a Congressional report has warned American lawmakers that if the dispute moves to formal settlement phase it could possibly result in a WTO-authorised trade retal...

Junaid Jamshed grew as he morphed, changing from the frontman of the most popular group ever to becoming one of the country’s most well-known Islamic preachers.

Two explosions, one thought to have been a suicide bomb, killed at least 15 people outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul on Saturday, officials said, in an attack apparently targeting police hours after a match between two of Turkey's top teams.

Turkey's ruling party is to submit a bill to parliament on Saturday expanding the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a move supporters believe will streamline the political system but opponents fear will lead to one-man rule.

Researchers say seaborne radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster has been detected on Oregon shores.

The UN human rights chief on Thursday slammed a bill in Israel that would legalise some 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank, saying it would clearly violate international law.

Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Thursday rescinded a colonial-era British order naming 19 nationals as "traitors" for leading a rebellion nearly 200 years ago, his office said, as he strives to shore up his fading popularity.

Moscow's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov on Thursday denounced the "myth of a Russian threat" and accused Western powers of destabilising Europe, at a meeting in Germany of OSCE nations.

A senior Cuban diplomat said Wednesday that she hopes President-elect Donald Trump will take into account advances in US-Cuban relations and can even improve on them when he takes office.

Turkey's Foreign Ministry summoned Germany's ambassador over the "wrongful" treatment of a senior Turkish MP at Cologne airport, diplomatic sources said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of disputes between Berlin and Ankara.

A Georgia man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for intentionally leaving his toddler son to die inside a sweltering sport utility vehicle on a summer day, a judge ruled on Monday.

The French authorities have decided to restrict vehicle use by imposing alternating traffic on December 6 in Paris and its suburbs after air pollution reached high levels in the region.

A number of Hindu temples in the UK have decided to ban the new five-pound notes as it contains traces of animal fat.