Europe's most wanted fugitive Salah Abdeslam has been extradited to France from Belgium to face questioning over last November's attacks in Paris.

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Poison gas conjures up the ghost horrors of WWI. But it’s been used in battle since. And Western leaders are warning that Russia may use it soon in Ukraine. What would that mean?

A hidden announcement from the State Department about consequences for foreigners “complicit in censoring Americans” has sparked a new level of global interference not seen from America since the end of the Cold War. Peter Hartcher asks is this the beginning of a new level of interference?

The US president has announced a total ban on citizens from a dozen countries entering the US and a partial ban on several more nations, a move that partly revives controversial travel restrictions from his first term.

At least 10 protesters and a policeman have been killed in unrest in Egypt as the country marks the fourth anniversary of its 2011 uprising, officials say.

Bali Nine member Michael Czugaj is among 66 prisoners who have been transferred to a remote jail in East Java after prison authorities said they caught him with traces of the drug ice in Kerobokan jail.

Suspected Islamist militants have hacked to death a leading gay rights activist and a friend in an apartment in the Bangladeshi capital.

Three men carrying Australian passports were arrested at a Bolivian international airport last week waiting to board a flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil, accused of carrying explosives.

Joey Rovero was just five months from graduation. It was December of 2009 and the healthy, handsome, athletic Arizona State University senior had finished his second-to-last semester. It was time to blow off some steam.