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Svetlana Alexievich   STOCKHOLM: Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 NobelLiterature Prize on Thursday, honoured for her work chronicling the horrors of war...

Washington: As Barack Obama's secretary of State, Hillary Clinton loyally carried out his agenda, but since mounting her presidential bid she has split...

Luxembourg: EU foreign ministers and their counterparts from nations bordering Syria were to gather Thursday to discuss the migration crisis, after German Chancellor...

Mexico City: The United Nations' human rights chief called on Mexico on Wednesday to set a timetable for the withdrawal of military forces...

Stockholm: Svetlana Alexievich of Belarus is among the bookies' favourites for Thursday's Nobel Prize in Literature but could see herself snubbed by the...

Sydney: Three of four people arrested in Australia over a terror-linked murder by a radicalised teenager have been released without charge in a...

Paris: France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who leads the main right-wing opposition, will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow by the end...

Washington: A 48-million-year-old fossil of a pregnant horse and fetus is the oldest of its kind known to science and contains unusually well-preserved...

Miami: The US Coast Guard suspended its intensive search Wednesday for survivors of "El Faro," a cargo ship believed to have sunk last...

Athens: The government of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras survived a no-confidence vote early Thursday morning, bolstering the left-wing leader as he gets...

  By Julia Fioretti, Shadia Nasralla and Francois Murphy BRUSSELS/VIENNA: From Vienna cafes to the European Union's highest court, an Austrian law student's two-year...

SAN FRANCISCO:  Google laid out a plan Wednesday to make tapping into news on mobile devices faster, keeping eyeballs on stories and people...

By Michel Rose PARIS: The economic crisis exacerbated inequalities in some European countries and the effects could be felt for decades as cuts...

  By Tom Esslemont LONDON:  Women in South Sudan have suffered unprecedented levels of sexual violence in the last two years, including abduction, rape,...

Representational image CHICAGO: A woman in suburban Detroit opened fire on a shoplifter after seeing a security guard chase him out of a...

LONDON: A British court on Wednesday jailed a former bishop with links to the royal family for 32 months after he pleaded guilty...

HARARE, Zimbabwe: Fourteen elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe in three separate incidents, two years after poachers killed more than 200 elephants...

Strasbourg, France: Failure to act in Syria risks stoking a "total war" in the Middle East, French President Francois Hollande said in a...