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Kuala Lumpur - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his wife have sued an opposition parliamentarian for slander over comments suggesting they manipulated...

Tehran - Iran has called for immediate peace talks between Yemen's warring parties, official media said Friday, as rebels backed by Tehran battle...

Jakarta - The French ambassador in Jakarta on Friday warned Indonesia that executing a Frenchman on death row on drugs charges would have...

Ramallah, Palestinian Territories - Hadi al-Fakhri was 26 the first time he hugged his father, one of thousands of Palestinians serving time in...

Birmingham, United Kingdom - Expensive housing, an overloaded transport system and a lack of space are driving thousands of Londoners out of the...

Belgrade - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic had to cancel an official visit to the Vatican on Friday when his plane developed engine trouble...

Brussels - The EU said Friday it will host fresh talks next week between prime ministers Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia and Isa Mustafa...

Tokyo - The operator of a Japanese nuclear plant whose restart was blocked this week by a court injunction said Friday it would...

Moscow - Moscow on Friday warned that the presence of foreign military personnel could destabilise the situation in Ukraine, following deployment of 300...

London - Dubai's Emirates Airline on Friday awarded a record engines deal worth $9.2-billion (8.5-billion-euro) to British aircraft engine maker Rolls-Royce. "Emirates has...

Aden - Two suspected Al-Qaeda militants were killed overnight in Yemen in a drone strike believed to have been carried out by the...

Tikrit, Iraq - On the Tigris River waterfront where jihadists executed hundreds of captured Iraqi army recruits last year, bloodstains are gradually being...

Damascus - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accused neighbouring Turkey of torpedoing a UN plan for a ceasefire with rebels in the second city...

Tokyo - Deadlock over the controversial relocation of a US military base in southern Japan deepened Friday when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met...

Jakarta - Indonesian President Joko Widodo swore in a new national police chief Friday, ending a long-running saga over the powerful appointment that...

Pretoria Central, South Africa - A South African court Friday postponed to next month the sentencing of Australian-born former tennis Grand Slam champion...

Sydney - An Australian court fined two French tourists Aus$4000 (US$3100) each on Friday for animal cruelty after they burnt a quokka, a...

Sanaa - UN chief Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen as he began the hunt for a new peace envoy...