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  Kano, Nigeria - At least 55 people were killed in two Boko Haram raids this week near Maiduguri, capital of restive north-eastern Nigeria's...

  Nairobi - South Sudan's army has carried out "grave" human rights abuses in an all-out offensive that has cut off aid from half...

  Nablus, Palestinian Territories - Israeli soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwing Palestinians in the West Bank on Friday, wounding at...

  Beirut - Extremists from the Islamic State group closed in on Syria's ancient metropolis of Palmyra on Friday, hours before seizing a government...

  Bamako - Mali gathered regional heads-of-state, government officials and armed groups on Friday for a largely ceremonial signing of a peace accord expected...

  New York - A US court sentenced Saudi exile Khalid al-Fawwaz to life in prison Friday over his role in the 1998 Al-Qaeda...

  Tripoli - Armed groups in Libya are abducting and torturing civilians, the United Nations said Friday, warning that such actions are "war crimes"....

  Bangkok - A Myanmar court sentenced six activists opposed to a controversial Chinese-backed copper mine to over four years in prison Friday, a...

  Geneva - The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Yemen called Friday on the Saudi-led coalition against Huthi rebels in Yemen to simplify import...

  Kathmandu - The US military said Friday it expected to find no survivors after locating the wreckage of a helicopter that went missing...

  Warsaw - Poland on Friday became the latest European Union member to oppose the bloc's plan for binding quotas on asylum seekers for...

Geneva - More than 100,000 Burundians have fled to neighbouring countries since political violence erupted in April, the United Nations said Friday, as...

Beijing - Five people in China were injured after two explosive devices from Myanmar hit the country's southwest, local authorities said Friday, following...

Ljubljana - Just weeks after a Czech politician created his own country, a group of Poles have declared a new state -- the...

Manila - The deaths of 72 people in a fire that gutted a footwear factory in the Philippine capital has exposed abusive conditions...

Moscow - France has offered Russia 785 million euros to scrap a contentious contract to supply two warships that was suspended due to...

Tokyo - Japan on Friday added one more country to its map of the world, recognising the tiny Pacific island nation of Niue...

Seoul - South Korea gave the go-ahead Friday for a group of women's rights activists to march from North Korea across the Demilitarised...