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China’s foreign minister Wang Yi and Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi “reached a broad consensus" on the Afghanistan situation.

Maithripala Sirisena was at the centre of a political standoff after he sacked prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, dissolved the parliament and called for a snap parliamentary election, prompting a Supreme Court intervention.

Donald Trump was due to be rejoined for Christmas by first lady Melania Trump, who had already decamped to Florida before the US shutdown took hold.

Bill Anders, one of the first men to orbit the Moon, said sending crews to Mars was 'almost ridiculous'.

Lithuania's central bank grants Google a pan-European e-money licence as the Baltic eurozone state seeks to attract firms concerned that Brexit may bar them from the EU market.

US President Donald Trump recently declared the jihadist group ISIS 'largely defeated' in Syria, and made the surprise decision to bring US forces home.

Surrounded by a heavy police presence, the protesters held banners with references to the "yellow vest" movement in France, which began as a demonstration against fuel price hikes but snowballed into anti-government protests.

Trump is seeking $5 billion for construction of a wall on the US border with Mexico. Democrats are staunchly opposed, and the absence of an elusive deal means federal funds for dozens of agencies will lapse at midnight.

With disagreements over President Donald Trump's long-promised border wall are threatening to trigger a partial shutdown at midnight Friday, here's a look at some of the recent government shutdowns.

The surprise announcement by US President Donald Trump this week that he would withdraw roughly 2,000 troops has felled a pillar of American policy in the Middle East.

China last week detained two Canadians - Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat and an adviser with the International Crisis Group (ICG) think-tank, and businessman Michael Spavor - after Canadian police arrested Huawei Technologies Co Ltd's chief financial of...

Alexa has also chatted with users about sex acts. She gave a discourse on dog defecation. And this summer, a hack Amazon traced back to China may have exposed some customers' data, according to five people familiar with the events.

NATO foreign ministers met as recently as this month to express "steadfast commitment to ensuring long-term security and stability in Afghanistan."

London's Gatwick Airport says flights are resuming after drones sparked the shutdown of the airfield for 32 hours, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded during the busy holiday season.

Flights have been diverted or grounded since two drones, believed by Sussex Police to be of an "industrial specification," were spotted near the airfield.

Eight-month-old baby shot in a motel in Gulup, New Mexico.