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Turkey's government is facing growing international pressure following police raids on media establishments. But the Turkish president has dismissed criticism and said the country’s national security is at stake.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, says ethnic rebels attacked an army outpost near the border with China last week, killing seven soldiers and wounding 20 others.

Five people have escaped from a restaurant in Sydney, Australia's central business district where a gunman is holding an undetermined number of hostages.

In Ecuador, a sudden collapse at a construction site of a hydroelectric power plant being built by a Chinese company has killed 13 people.

The world is dangerously close to the brink of thermonuclear world war. If we do not change the course of the Obama Administration, the British government, NATO, and the EU, toward Russia and China, an uncontrolled escalation could wipe out the human race. Unfortunately, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, since her disastrous speech in Sydney, Australia, on Nov. 17, joined Obama as one of the main spokespersons for this confrontation policy.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned on Sunday a recent surge in deadly attacks by the Taliban, calling the attacks on civilian and military targets “un-Islamic.”

Afghan troops being trained by NATO at one of the military training centres in Kabul.

Russia says there will be repercussions if Washington imposes new sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.

A new report released by the National Observatory on Poverty and Social Exclusion (ONPES) and the World Bank suggests the need for more inclusive growth and policies to increase access to basic services, livelihood opportunities and social protection for the poor in Haiti as the best way forward for accelerating poverty reduction in the country.