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Hungarian leader Viktor Orban has urged his compatriots to use April’s elections to reject immigrants and a hostile foreign liberal elite, as tens of (...)

The United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees said on Thursday it had received new cash pledges to enable it to keep working for a few mor(...)

Thousands of Syrian civilians fled from a rebel pocket in eastern Ghouta on Thursday, crossing by foot to army positions in the first mass exodus from(...)

Nato’s leading powers closed ranks against Vladimir Putin on Thursday as the US unveiled new sanctions against Moscow and joined with France and Germa(...)

Happy are the people of the Nordic nations, happier, in fact, than anyone else in the world. And the overall happiness of a country is almost identica(...)

After days of sabre-rattling, British PM Theresa May’s response to the Salisbury attack on Sergei and Yulia Skripal was, on the face of it, a modest o(...)

The Department of Justice has, once again, found reasons for not doing the generous thing for a disadvantaged group of people. This time, it was decid(...)

President Xi Jinping has said China and South Korea should improve communication and properly resolve sensitive issues, after news of a possible summi(...)

The evidence is “overwhelming” that more women soldiers have led to better decision-making, the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, Vice-Admiral Mar(...)

A chief aide to Hungary’s populist prime minister Viktor Orban has rejected criticism of a video that he made in Vienna claiming that immigrants had b(...)