The United Nations refugee agency is cautioning against the repatriation at this time of ethnic Rohingya Muslims who fled to Bangladesh to escape army-led violence in Myanmar.

A US Navy fighter jet has crashed in the Philippine Sea, south of the Japanese island of Okinawa.

South Korea has airlifted 200 tons of tangerines to North Korea in return for earlier shipments of pine mushrooms by the North.

Thousands of Central American migrants bedded down under tents and tarps at a stadium in the central Mexican city of Queretaro after a day spent traveling north by metro, foot and hitched rides from the country’s capital.

Women have continued to access abortion illegally in defiance of 65-year-old law

After a long recession, Italians have enjoyed three precious years of growth: but now the country is stalling again as its populist leaders wrangle with the EU

Descendants of first world war soldiers attend ceremony at Menin Gate, which bears names of 54,000 British dead

Dutch authorities are prosecuting a doctor for performing euthanasia on a patient in the first case of its kind since its legalisation 16 years ago.

One man’s journey to the United States from Mauritania was dangerous and arduous, and underscores shift in immigration flow.

Meeting furthers Kremlin’s drive to be seen as international broker of peace