Israel's Shin Bet security service said today that it had thwarted a Hamas coup attempt in the West Bank aimed at toppling Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, though it offered few...

Ukraine claimed Monday that rebels in the east of the country fired rockets and mortars on civilians trying to flee from the region's intense fighting.   "Many people were killed,...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will be leaving the Ecuadorean Embassy in London soon — but did not say when or explain his decision.   Assange has been holed...

Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Egypt-mediated Gaza truce talks hardened their positions Monday ahead of the expiration of a five-day cease-fire, though both sides appear reluctant to return to...

Nepalese authorities said Monday they feared an outbreak of diseases as they attempt to reach thousands of people stranded by flooding that has already killed more than 100 people.   The...

Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital's largest slum after residents raided a quarantine centre for suspected patients and took items including...

Separatist rebels in the east have shot down a Ukrainian fighter plane, a Ukrainian military spokesman said .   Oleksiy Dmitrashkovsky said that the plane was shot down over the Luhansk...

A rebel leader in eastern Ukraine has said a convoy of military hardware is on its way to the region from Russia.   Alexander Zakharchenko, self-proclaimed PM of the Donetsk rebel area, said...

Riot police have confronted dozens of protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, as tensions again rose over the shooting of a black teenager by police there.   Several stores were looted and bottles...

Militants in northern Iraq have massacred at least 80 men from the Yazidi faith in a village and abducted women and children, reports say.   Senior Kurdish official Hoshyar Zebari said the...