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Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Thursday pledged to consult the country's Buddhist leaders over his plans for constitutional reform, which he promised in his 2015 election campaign to bring about reconciliation among all ethnic groups. Sri Lanka in January...

German police clashed with protesters before a G20 summit in Hamburg on Thursday, tarnishing the outset of a meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes will cement her role as a stateswoman as she seeks re-election in September. Merkel, who is campaigning...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 05, (THEWILL) - The United States ambassador to United Nations cautioned on Wednesday it was ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea’s nuclear missile programme as America is getting impatient with Kim...

Qatar faces possible further sanctions by Arab states that have severed ties with Doha over allegations of links to terrorism, as a deadline to accept a series of demands is expected to expire on Sunday night with no signs...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, 71, was released on parole on Sunday from a prison in Ramle, near Tel Aviv, after serving 16 months in jail for corruption. Olmert was found guilty in 2014 of accepting bribes from real...

In a major shake-up of the Vatican's administration on Saturday, Pope Francis replaced Catholicism's top theologian, a conservative German cardinal who has been at odds with the pontiff's vision of a more inclusive Church. A brief Vatican statement said Cardinal...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 30, (THEWILL) - The German parliament on Friday, voted by a wide margin to legalize same-sex marriage days after Chancellor Angela Merkel kicked against the decision. The bill, passed by 393 votes to 226, with four abstentions, gives homosexual...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 30, (THEWILL) - President Donald Trump on Friday declared that the US had run out of patience with North Korea over its nuclear drive as he welcomed South Korea’s new leader Moon Jae-In to talks at the...

A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday confirmed that the Netherlands was partly liable for the deaths of some 300 Muslim males who were expelled from a Dutch U.N. base after the surrounding area was overrun by Bosnian Serb troops. The...

The White House warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that he and his military would "pay a heavy price" if it conducted a chemical weapons attack and said the United States had reason to believe such preparations were...