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Gaza: Two Palestinians have been martyred, and five others were injured on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a border area in...

Yangon: Anti-Rohingya protesters gathered at a Yangon port on Thursday to meet a Malaysian ship carrying aid for thousands of refugees from the...

BEIJING/WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump has broken the ice with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a letter that said he looked forward to...

Islamabad: A Pakistani activist abducted last month has broken his silence on his weeks-long disappearance, but is refusing to point fingers in a...

Beirut: Rebel fire on an aid distribution centre in Syria's Aleppo city has killed three people, including a Red Crescent volunteer and a...

Beijing: Chinese police have rescued 32 Vietnamese women who were sold as brides to Chinese farmers, authorities said Thursday, in an operation aimed...

DUBAI: Bahrain said on Thursday it had foiled an attempt by "terrorist fugitives" wanted in connection with a January prison break to flee...

Washington: The self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11 attacks wrote to former president Barack Obama to tell him 9/11 was a direct result...

MOGADISHU: Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo was elected Somali president Wednesday, in the second presidential election since 1991 held amid tight security due to clashes...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba/BUFFALO, New York: Refugees in the United States fearing a worsening climate of xenophobia in the wake of a divisive U.S. presidential...

Aden: Thirty-two combatants were killed Wednesday in the battle for a key coastal town in western Yemen between government forces and Shiite Huthi...

Stockholm: A wave of suicides among teenage Afghan migrants in Sweden after it introduced stricter asylum rules has sparked concern among refugee workers...

PARIS: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen will lose in an election runoff for president to centrist Emmanuel Macron, though she still appears...

BEIRUT:  President Donald Trump has set out to crush Islamic State when it is already at a low ebb, but Islamists and some...

MOGADISHU: A former prime minister who holds dual Somali-U.S. citizenship was declared Somalia's new president Wednesday, immediately taking the oath of office as...

In his televised annual address to the nation on January 30, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev laid out the third stage of Kazakhstan’s modernisation...

VITORIA, Brazil: Authorities in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo on Wednesday requested more federal troops to stem a crime wave amid an...

LIMA: Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori said on Wednesday that he was extending his more than weeklong stay in a hospital outside his...