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Nicosia - Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades will meet newly elected Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Saturday ahead of a new round of...

Kano, Nigeria - Boko Haram still poses a threat to civilians, despite a military crackdown, officials and experts said on Tuesday, after hundreds...

Kiev - A Ukrainian soldier was killed and 14 others injured as shelling intensified in eastern parts of the country where government forces...

United Nations, United States - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has dispatched an envoy to Burundi following deadly protests over the president's election bid...

Jakarta - Australia, the European Union and France urged Indonesia Tuesday not to go ahead with the execution of eight foreign drug convicts,...

Budapest - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Tuesday for a debate on reintroducing the death penalty in the EU member state, saying...

Addis Ababa - A top mediator leading failed efforts to end South Sudan's civil war torn said Tuesday that regional powers will soon...

Paris - Global warming since the Industrial Revolution is responsible for about three-quarters of certain heat extremes today, and nearly a fifth of...

Berlin - Germany's population is set to decline by about 10 million people by 2060 as immigrants arriving in Europe's top economy fail...

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia has arrested nearly 100 jihadists, mostly linked to the Islamic State group, and foiled several plots to carry out...

Jerusalem - A UN report on last year's 50-day July-August war in Gaza has shed light on some of the most controversial incidents,...

Sarajevo - Bosnian police arrested two people on Tuesday after a suspected Islamist gunman attacked a police station, killing one officer and wounding...

United Nations, United States - The UN Security Council on Tuesday pushed Morocco and pro-independence campaigners in Western Sahara to negotiate a settlement...

Beirut - Representatives from Syria's opposition National Coalition will meet the UN's Syria envoy in Geneva next month as he seeks to revive...

Bamako - The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali said Tuesday an attack by loyalist fighters on rebel positions in...

Lome - Togo's incumbent President Faure Gnassingbe has extended a strong lead over his main rival in a weekend poll, according to the...

Washington - The United States and Japan "share a concern" about China's activities in the South China Sea, where Beijing has built an...

Madrid, Spain - Some 170 people were rescued and three lightly injured on Tuesday after a passenger ferry caught fire off Spain's Balearic...