A powerful 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit the southern region of South Korea Monday evening, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, following an earlier quake of 4.9-magnitude.

Berlin accused Moscow on Monday of falsely claiming Chancellor Angela Merkel had tried to pressure Bulgaria to select a new candidate to succeed U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon.

The leader of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, is "in good health" and has called for an end to the Kurdish conflict, his brother said Monday after visiting him in jail.

Donald Trump said Monday he hopes his Democratic White House rival Hillary Clinton recovers from pneumonia and announced he would be releasing details of his own health soon.

The Republican presidential nominee was unusually subdued in his first public comments on the news that Clinton has pneumonia, a diagnosis revealed by her campaign after she fell sick at a 9/11 memorial ceremony Sunday and had to leave abruptly.

President Rodrigo Duterte ratcheted up his feud with the United States on Monday, ordering all American special forces out of the southern Philippines where they have been advising local troops battling Muslim extremists.

An American amateur investigator handed possible debris from missing flight MH370 to Australian officials Monday and said several pieces were blackened by flames, raising the prospect of a flash fire onboard.

Afghanistan is close to signing a peace agreement with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, President Ashraf Ghani said Monday, in a landmark accord that could pave the way for the notorious warlord's political return after years in hiding.

One year after his election, Jeremy Corbyn is leading the most unpopular opposition Labor party in British history, according to an analysis of polls published Monday.

Ilya Gushchin says the two and a half years he spent in prison for standing up to the Kremlin were a warning from the authorities for ordinary Russians.

Eight people have now died after an explosion at a rubbish dump outside Cotonou in Benin, the local mayor said on Sunday.