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  Cairo - An Egyptian court sentenced ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his two sons to three years in prison on Saturday after a...

  Moscow - President Vladimir Putin on Saturday led a huge commemorative WWII march through Red Square as Russia celebrated 70 years since Soviet...

  Edinburgh - Scotland's new pro-independence MPs and their leader Nicola Sturgeon on Saturday celebrated their seismic election gains against the backdrop of a...

  Donetsk, Ukraine - Ukraine's pro-Russian rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko said Saturday that insurgents had released two US aid workers detained for alleged spying. ...

  London - The hunt was on across Britain on Saturday to find the defeated Labour Party's much-derided giant monolith bearing their election pledges...

  Madrid - Spain's busy southern Seville airport was closed to traffic Saturday following the crash nearby of an Airbus military plane, the AENA...

  Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday presided over a huge military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi...

  Nairobi - An international medical aid agency evacuated staff from a town in South Sudan on Saturday as fighting escalated once again in...

CAIRO- - Egyptian state television channels resumed broadcasting on Saturday after what security officials said was a disruption caused by a power cut....

  Bujumbura, Burundi - Fears are growing that political protests in Burundi could turn ethnic, threatening to plunge the country into another deadly Hutu-Tutsi...

CAIRO-- - Egyptian state television channels stopped broadcasting on Saturday as a private channel said they had suffered a power cut. Security and...

  Lima - Peruvian troops have been deployed to help maintain law and order after weeks of deadly protests about a controversial mining project...

MADRID-- A military plane crashed into a field a mile (1.6 km) north of San Pablo airport in Seville, emergency services and the...

  Monrovia - The UN health agency on Saturday declared Liberia Ebola-free, hailing the "monumental" achievement in the west African country where the virus...

RABAT-- The Moroccan Interior Ministry has filed a lawsuit against a group behind a report that allegedly accuses the intelligence services of spying...

  Beirut - Syrian government forces advanced Saturday towards the rebel-held town of Jisr al-Shughur, where around 250 regime force members and their families...

  Washington - The United States on Saturday congratulated Liberia for stamping out its Ebola outbreak but warned the region could not rest until...

  Abepura, Indonesia - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said Saturday decades-old reporting restrictions for foreign journalists in Papua would be lifted and ordered the...