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TUNIS: Tunisia has sold the presidential plane used by toppled leader Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to Turkish Airlines (Turk Hava Yollari) for...

Traunstein, Germany: A German court Monday sentenced a rail dispatcher to three-and-a-half-years in prison over a train crash that killed 12 people as...

Tokyo: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to become the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor, announcing Monday a trip to Hawaii this...

Moscow: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday slammed a proposed UN resolution demanding a temporary ceasefire in Aleppo as a "provocative step."...

Ankara: Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will pay an official visit to Moscow between Monday and Wednesday on the invitation of his Russian...

Beirut: An unknown individuals opened fire at an Army checkpoint in Bkaasafrine-Dinnieh, in North Lebanon, on Sunday night killing an Army soldier and...

Paris: The Swiss restaurant named the best in the world last year remained in the top 10 of the La Liste ranking Monday...

Havana: After burying Fidel Castro, Cuba is 15 months away from seeing his brother, Raul, give up the presidency. For the first time...

Washington: Donald Trump girded Monday for a busy day of meetings to fill cabinet positions including secretary of state, a keenly awaited choice...

SEOUL: Besides South Korean President Park Geun-hye, the biggest casualty of the country's mushrooming political corruption scandal may be the presidential aspirations of...

Oakland, United States: The grisly search for bodies in the charred remains of a California warehouse entered its third day Monday, with relatives...

Aleppo, Syria: Kafa Jawish hadn't slept in days, daydreaming of seeing her home in east Aleppo for the first time in four years,...

BEIRUT: Another key district of eastern Aleppo has effectively fallen to advancing Syrian government forces, a rebel official said on Monday, as the...

Chennai, India: Authorities in southern India put police on high alert Monday, fearing an outbreak of civil unrest after one of the country's...

Aleppo, Syria: Syria's army and allied forces seized a new neighbourhood from rebels in east Aleppo overnight, a monitor said Monday, and now...

ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT: While the fight to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State is going to be difficult,...

Aleppo, Syria: Suspected Russian air strikes have killed at least 46 people in opposition-held parts of Syria, a monitor said, as the UN...

Rome: The expected resignation of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi marks the start of a new period of uncertainty in Italian politics. It...