World leaders have been gathering in Saudi Arabia to pay their respects after the death of King Abdullah. The visiting officials met Abdullah’s successor, King Salman, in Riyadh. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry […]

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he is ready to meet Russia’s foreign minister, as violence escalates in eastern Ukraine. He is due to hold talks with Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said he is open to a summit with his South Korean counterpart, days after a proposal from Seoul to resume dialogue. Al Jazeera’s Harry Fawcett reports […]

Russia’s Investigative Committee has confirmed the claims by a Ukrainian, who said he witnessed the deployment of a Ukrainian warplane armed with air-to-air missiles on the day the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 […]

Russia’s Investigative Committee is investigating a Russian newspaper report alleging that a Ukrainian military jet shot down Malaysian Airlines passenger plane MH17 over the rebel-held eastern part of the country last summer.

Japanese voters head to the polls in what is seen as a referendum on ‘Abenomics’. Will Ripley reports.

Dozens of masked extremists have clashed with riot police in Zurich, Switzerland, one of Europe’s wealthiest cities. Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon to disperse some 200 people who […]

Brazil’s military dictatorship committed crimes against humanity, according to the country’s national Truth Commission which recommends that the state’s torturers lose their immunity from prosecution.

An American man was arrested and accused of plotting to bomb Muslim holy sites, Israeli police say.

The International Criminal Court has accepted the status of Palestine, clearing the way for war crimes in the Occupied Territories to be investigated. Al Jazeera’s James Bays reports from the UN.