HARDLY a summer goes by without riots erupting on the streets of American cities over the killing of black people by white policemen. 

In the aftermath of Brexit, the upcoming Nato summit in Warsaw, offers the West a chance to work towards greater unity which is exactly what is needed at this time, says Bogdan Klich

Britain could be carrying out airstrikes in Iraq within days after the cabinet unanimously backed action against Islamic State (IS).

Most French people do not want Francois Hollande to seek a second term in the country’s 2017 presidential election, a poll showed, in the latest blow to the president whose popularity is already at record lows.

President Barack Obama will begin laying out a strategy this week to defeat Islamic State militants in the Middle East, meeting with congressional leaders tomorrow and giving a speech on Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil.

Barack Obama swapped “banter” with three young boys during his sightseeing trip to Stonehenge, their mother has said.

Ukraine, Russia and the Kremlin-backed separatists signed a ceasefire deal after five months of bloodshed, and Europe prepared additional sanctions on Moscow.

The repetitive nature of history is as obvious as our unfortunate inability to break free from the almost predictable cycle of threat and counter threat, calamity and disaster. Some threats fade before wars break out, others, tragically, do not.

Shelling resounded on the outskirts of a key Ukrainian port as Russian-backed rebels pressed their south-east offensive, just hours ahead of talks that are widely hoped to bring a ceasefire.

The Taliban has struck a government compound in eastern Afghanistan in a dawn attack that included two suicide truck bombings and left at least 12 people dead, including eight off duty policemen asleep in their quarters nearby.

While Obama has been criticised for not having a strategy, his desire to build a coalition could prove to be the best policy, writes Jim Gaines.

President Barack Obama is ruling out the possibility that the US will take military action to address growing violence in Ukraine.

Ten children and two women are reported to have been killed in a Nato airstrike in eastern Afghanistan.

Three Nato summit protesters face four terrorism-related charges after being accused of planning to attack US President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in Chicago with Molotov cocktails, according to a grand jury indictment.

France's new president Francois Hollande arrived in Afghanistan today to meet troops, the country's president and discuss plans for an early pull-out.

A bus carrying university students on a pre-graduation trip toppled off a mountain cliff in southern Albania yesterday, killing 12 people and injuring another 21, authorities said.

Thousands of protesters marched through Chicago in one of the city’s largest demonstrations in years, airing grievances about war, climate change and a wide range of other complaints as world leaders assembled for a Nato summit.

David Cameron today issued a stark warning to eurozone leaders that they must put in place proper contingency plans to protect their economies in case Greece drops out of the single currency.

Two Nato service members have been killed in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan.

Three men arrested when police raided a Chicago apartment ahead of the Nato summit had been planning to attack President Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters, prosecutors said tonight.

President Barack Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival’s candidacy: His business credentials.

In a whirlwind first day after winning the French presidency, Socialist François Hollande already has a to-do list that includes an invite to the White House, visits to the G8 and Nato summits, and a Second World War ceremony with his defeated rival.

Leaders of the US and Britain have outlined plans to shift the Nato war effort in Afghanistan towards a back-seat advisory role while Afghan forces increasingly take the lead, but stressed that the two nations remain committed to the mission there.

International forces in Afghanistan will shift into a “support role” from next year, British Prime Minister David Cameron and US President Barack Obama confirmed today following talks in the White House.

The White House abruptly announced that it had scuttled plans to hold the coming G8 economic summit in Chicago and would instead host world leaders at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland's mountains north of Washington.

Barack Obama will host the G8 summit at his Camp David presidential retreat in the Maryland countryside instead of Chicago as first scheduled, the White House said.

China has said it supports the Arab League’s proposals for ending the violence in Syria, in a striking show of support just two weeks after Beijing vetoed a United Nations resolution backing the plans.

An investigation into a Nato attack that killed 24 Pakistani troops near the Afghan border has concluded that a combination of mistrust and bad maps led to the air strikes on the two outposts in Pakistan, officials say.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is hosting leaders from across the Americas at a two-day summit.

FURY spread in Pakistan yesterday over a Nato cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and could undermine the US effort to wind up the war in Afghanistan.

The Libyan rebels' interim government announced it is moving from Benghazi to the capital, Tripoli, another step towards taking control, as bursts of heavy gunfire erupted around what is believed to be Muammar Gaddafi's last stronghold early today.

SEVERAL large explosions rocked the Libyan capital Tripoli last night and a column of smoke was seen rising from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound.

Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi cast doubt on Libyan reports that Muammar Gaddafi’s son and three grandchildren were killed in a Nato air strike, saying coalition forces believed the claim to be “propaganda”.

More than 1,000 protesters poured into a northern Afghan city today and clashed with security forces after an overnight Nato raid they claim killed four civilians.

A Nato air strike has killed 12 rebels in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata, a doctor says.

Libyan rebels have claimed that Nato air strikes hit their fighters on the front lines and touched off a retreat from the outskirts of the key oil port of Brega.

A Nato air strike intended to thwart Muammar Gaddafi’s forces killed 13 rebel fighters in eastern Libya, the opposition said.

A Nato air strike intended to thwart Muammar Gaddafi’s forces killed 13 rebel fighters in eastern Libya instead, the opposition said today.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints today from residents of Marjah, the southern town that thousands of US, NATO Hand Afghan troops recently seized from the Taliban.

Two New York City fried chicken restaurants in predominantly black neighbourhoods are under fire for putting President Barack Obama’s name on their signs.

Police clashed with demonstrators in Strasbourg where the Nato summit is under way.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators were today descending on two German towns and the French city of Strasbourg to protest at a Nato summit marking the alliance’s 60th anniversary.