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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he believes US President-elect Donald Trump will be a good friend to Israel and hopes the two countries can work together to dismantle the international nuclear agreement with Iran.

Two little girls approximately seven or eight years old blew themselves up in a northeastern Nigerian market on Sunday.

At least 22 people were killed and over 30 injured on Sunday in a blast at Cairo's main Coptic Christian cathedral during a mass, the latest attack on minorities suspected to be carried out by jihadists.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un conducted a large scale military drill targeting South Korea's presidential Blue House, state media said Sunday.

There is also fighting with the army in the city centre," said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

U.S. intelligence officials accused Russia of being behind the breaches as part of an effort to interfere with the presidential campaign.

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.

Thousands gathered on a pier overlooking Pearl Harbor, observed a moment of silence and watched jets streak across the clear blue sky Wednesday in honor of the 75th anniversary of the attack that plunged the United States into World War II.

A Turkish restaurant in London that is owned and managed by Muslims is offering a free Christmas dinner to the elderly and homeless so they don't have to spend the holiday alone.

The head of Japan's SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), which in October set up a $100 billion fund for technology investments, said on Tuesday he would invest $50 billion in U.S. businesses, a move President-elect Donald Trump claimed was a direct result of hi...

Brazil's Supreme Court decided on Monday to remove the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, who was indicted last week by the top court on charges of embezzlement, a court spokesman said.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has announced his candidacy for next year's presidential election.

The fire broke out around 11:30 pm on Friday during an electronic music show at the "Ghost Ship," an artists' collective in Oakland's Fruitvale neighbourhood.

New Zealand's popular Prime Minister John Key stunned the nation on Monday when he announced he was resigning after eight years as leader.

Russia's FSB security service on Saturday said it had killed an "emir" of the Islamic State group in the North Caucasus along with four other militants in a raid in the Dagestan region.

Speaking at a two-day conference on military reform, Xi, said China's military needs to put more focus on technology rather than force of numbers.