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Jerusalem: A senior Palestinian journalist has been released after 10 months in an Israeli jail without charge, he said. Omar Nazzal, 55, was...

Geneva: Upcoming Syria peace talks remain focused on negotiating a "political transition" in the war-ravaged country, the UN mediator's office said yesterday, following...

JUBA: South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir yesterday promised aid agencies safe access to hunger-stricken civilians, a day after his government declared a famine...

Kampala: Ugandan authorities have seized more than a tonne of ivory, chopped into small pieces and treated with a chemical intended to prevent...

Tel Aviv: A young Israeli soldier who killed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment yesterday, in a...

Baku: Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev yesterday appointed his glamorous wife as first vice-president, the latest move seen as tightening the family's iron grip...

Tokyo: A Japanese kindergarten known for its nationalist curriculum has apologised after coming under fire for hostile comments about Korean and Chinese parents....

Bali: Indonesian prosecutors sought eight-year prison sentences yesterday for a British man and an Australian woman accused of killing a police officer on...

Tokyo: A Japanese zoo has culled 57 native snow monkeys by lethal injection after finding that they carried genes of an "invasive alien...

Tangi:  At LEAST seven people were killed when multiple Taliban suicide bombers attacked a court complex in northern Pakistan yesterday, the latest in...

Rome: Hundreds of taxi drivers protested in Rome yesterday as a strike over delays to Italian legislation regulating Uber and car-hire services entered...

Islamabad: Pakistan Army has moved heavy artillery towards the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman and Torkham districts, security officials said yesterday. The move came...

Paris: French President Francois Hollande called yesterday on Britain to "accept its responsibility" to take in stranded under-age migrants stuck in France who...

Vienna: An Austrian court approved yesterday the extradition of Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash (pictured) to the United States in a bribery case, overturning...

Brussels: Germany and France want the European Union to weaken its human rights safeguards to allow for deportation of asylum seekers before their...

Vienna: Austria’s coalition government approved new employment rules yesterday to ensure workers already in the country are given priority for new jobs over...

BRUSSELS: U.S. President Donald Trump sent top U.S. officials to Europe with a familiar warning from Washington that allies must spend more on...

In a world inevitably multilateral such as ours, regional powers are supposed to have their share of responsibilities in order to build more...