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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong apologised on Monday that a dispute with his siblings over their late father Lee Kuan Yew's will has had an impact on citizens' confidence in the government.

Devastating conflicts, violence and persecution in places like Syria and South Sudan had left a record 65.6 million people uprooted from their homes by the end of 2016, the UN said Monday.

Two Pakistani diplomats based in a consulate office in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad have been missing since Friday when they set off by road back to their homeland, Pakistan's foreign office said on Sunday.

A Chilean journalist was taken for a very expensive taxi ride during the Confederations Cup soccer tournament in Moscow.

The bodies of sailors missing since the destroyer the USS Fitzgerald collided with a container vessel were found in flooded compartments in the damaged ship, the United States Navy said on Sunday.

Seven American troops were wounded on Sunday in an insider attack by an Afghan soldier at a military base, as the US appears set to boost its troop presence in the country.

A scandal-hit law professor bowed out of the running to become South Korea's justice minister on Saturday over his controversial views on women and admissions of drink driving and other transgressions.

Christians in a Philippines town are disguising themselves by borrowing hijabs to escape the Islamic State (IS) terrorists group that has been holding 1,500 people hostage.

Zambia's parliament on Tuesday suspended 48 opposition lawmakers who boycotted President Edgar Lungu's address to legislators in March to protest his contested electoral victory.

Hungary's parliament approved on Tuesday a crackdown on foreign-backed civil society groups despite an international outcry, in a move seen as targeting US billionaire George Soros.

Several people were wounded when shots were fired at a commuter rail station near the southern Germany city of Munich on Tuesday and one person was detained, police said.

Emmanuel Macron’s fledgling party seized a big lead in the French parliamentary election first round on Sunday, projected results polls showed, setting the president on course for a massive majority to push through his pro-business reforms.

Gulzar Khan, a father of 36, says he has so many offspring that they don't need friends to play a full cricket match.

The 193 UN member nations have issued an urgent call for action to reverse the decline in the health and productivity of the world's oceans, with the United States backing the action plan but rejecting its support for the Paris agreement to tackle climate...

A number of opinion polls give Macron's Republique en Marche party around 30 percent of the vote,

U.S. bank Citi said a majority of more than 100 seats would lower the risk of a chaotic EU exit, but also reduce the chance that Britain could remain a member of the EU single market.