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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA: A passenger boat carrying about 70 people sank in the northern Brazilian state of Pará, with at least seven people confirmed...

Tal Afar, Iraq: Iraqi forces Wednesday recaptured several districts and advanced towards the centre of Tal Afar, one of the Islamic State group's...

Luanda: Angolans voted on Wednesday in an election marking the end of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos's 38-year reign, with his MPLA party...

HELSINKI: Finnish police said on Wednesday they had arrested two more suspects in connection with last week's knife attack that killed two and...

SIDON, Lebanon: Two members of the Palestinian group Fatah were killed in worsening clashes with Islamist groups in a Palestinian refugee camp in...

Dhaka: Thousands of Rohingya have crossed into Bangladesh since Myanmar announced a military build-up in Rakhine state earlier this month, community leaders said...

Ankara: Pentagon chief Jim Mattis held talks with Turkish leaders in Ankara on Wednesday focusing on Washington's arming of a Syrian Kurdish militia...

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines: Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf terrorists have beheaded a retired Philippine army soldier who was abducted Monday in the southern island...

Hong Kong: At least 34 people were injured, hundreds of flights were cancelled and markets closed as Hong Kong felt the effects of...

CAIRO: Egypt called off a scheduled meeting between its foreign minister and top US presidential adviser Jared Kushner on Wednesday after the United...

Kandahar, Afghanistan: A Taliban suicide bomber killed five people and wounded dozens of others, mainly children, when he detonated a car filled with...

LUSAKA, Zambia: The Zambian government has described a potential move by one of the country’s biggest copper miners to cut over 4,700 workers...

BAGHDAD: U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis on Tuesday told Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi that Washington rejects any action that could threaten Iraq’s...

ANKARA: At least 50 people were killed by airstrikes in Syria’s Hama province, local sources said Tuesday. Warplanes struck the IS-held villages of...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: A human rights organization demanded on Tuesday that Indonesia abolishes capital punishment, following a Supreme Court ruling earlier this year which...

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Irrigation Ministry on Tuesday warned of the likelihood of “unprecedented” Nile floods in the coming two days.  In a press statement,...

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces have captured two neighborhoods of Iraq’s Tal Afar as part of an ongoing offensive aimed at dislodging IS militants from...

ISTANBUL: At least 78 civilians were killed in U.S.-led coalition airstrikes and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) shelling in IS-held Raqqah province in northern...