Azerbaijan has destroyed an Armenian air defence system in the breakaway Nagorny Karabakh region, officials in Baku said Tuesday, as separatist authorities vowed retaliation, raising tensions in the festering conflict. Ex-Soviet Azerbaijan and Armenia are

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Security researchers investigating the massive cyberattack campaign that sparked havoc in computer systems worldwide have reported signs of a possible North Korean link, but Europe's cross-border police agency said Tuesday it was "too early" to

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Rebel soldiers in Ivory Coast on Tuesday agreed to end a four-day mutiny which drew in troops from across the country after reaching agreement with the government over a wages dispute. "Calm has returned," said

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Authorities in Mexico searched Tuesday for gunmen who fatally shot an award-winning journalist and Agence France-Presse contributor who reported on the country's violent drug gangs. Javier Valdez, 50, was shot in the street Monday near

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Austria's snap election will be on October 15, party chiefs agreed on Tuesday after the centrist "grand coalition" collapsed. The vote could see the far-right Freedom Party (FPOe), whose candidate narrowly failed to be elected

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Afghan forces on Tuesday regained control of a strategic district close to the restive northern city of Kunduz that fell to the Taliban earlier this month, official said. The Taliban seized Qala-e-Zal in an assault

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Iran's reformist first vice president, Eshaq Jahangiri, on Tuesday pulled out of this week's presidential election and endorsed the incumbent, Hassan Rouhani, ISNA news agency reported. "I will vote for Mr Rouhani in the presidential

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SpaceX on Monday launched a communications satellite for Inmarsat, marking its first launch for the London-based mobile broadband company. The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite, built by Boeing, blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday he was open to exploring the South China Sea's natural resources with rival claimants China and Vietnam, after securing a "windfall" while in Beijing. Duterte also emphasised he had

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Austerity policies imposed by the International Monetary Fund may harm parents' ability to care for their children's health, according to a study published Monday. The steep cuts in social spending the IMF often demands can

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