Pressure from Pakistan's judiciary won't influence the outcome of upcoming general elections this year, Pakistan's Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Wednesday, adding he hoped the election would be free and fair.

President Emmanuel Macron yesterday faced mass protests as trade unionists seek to galvanise angry students, public sector workers and striking train drivers into a joint movement against his multi-pronged drive to overhaul the French economy.

Queen Elizabeth II, the Head of the Commonwealth, opened the Commonwealth summit for what may be the last time yesterday voicing hope that her son would be allowed to carry on her role.

Facebook announced yesterday it would begin rolling out changes to how it handles private data this week to comply with forthcoming

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday called snap elections in Turkey for June 24, bringing the polls forward by over a year-and-a-

EU foreign ministers on Monday discussed how they could persuade the US not to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, but stopped short of

Canada announced Monday it was sending home the families of its diplomats in Cuba, after a year-long investigation into a

The US and Britain on Monday accused Russia of launching cyber attacks on computer routers, firewalls and other networking

Prime Minister Theresa May personally apologised to Caribbean leaders yesterday after her government threatened to deport people who

The Maldives yesterday rejected a demand by a UN human rights watchdog that former president Mohamed Nasheed be allowed to

Tens of thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest against what organisers say was an unfair election system that gave Prime Minister Viktor Orban a landslide victory at the polls after a "hate campaign" against immigrants.

A Moscow court yesterday ruled to block the popular messaging app Telegram in Russia, after it refused to give state security services

Russia's UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia urges the United States and its allies on Thursday to refrain from military action against Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack and says he "cannot exclude" war between Washington and Moscow.

River systems around world are coursing with over-the-counter and prescription drug waste harmful to the environment, researchers

Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned with a nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury along with her Russian ex-spy father, has been

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked it to rule on whether it has jurisdiction over the deportations of Rohingya people "from Myanmar to Bangladesh", a possible crime against humanity, according to a filing.

Pope Francis issued a warning to Catholics who criticise his calls to welcome migrants with open arms, in a much-awaited text published

A new round of talks on the use of so-called killer robots reopened at the United Nations yesterday, with a focus on defining the

The leading political group in the European Parliament congratulated Hungary's Viktor Orban on his reelection yesterday, but the anti-

German police have detained four men, one of whom they suspect of planning knife attacks at Sunday's Berlin half-marathon, the