Athens--Greece's new hard-left government on Wednesday scrapped key privatisation tenders and pressed home its demand for debt relief, causing sharp falls on the...
Athens--Greece's new hard-left government on Wednesday scrapped key privatisation tenders and pressed home its demand for debt relief, causing sharp falls on the...
Geneva--An ambitious European investment plan could create 2.1 million jobs by 2018 if properly implemented, the ILO said Wednesday. Crafted by European Commission...
New Delhi--India will sell up to 10 percent of state-controlled Coal India on Friday in a deal that could raise close to $4...
MAJIDIYA, Lebanon--A Hezbollah missile attack killed two Israeli soldiers on Wednesday and Israel responded with air and ground strikes on southern Lebanon, where...
Ibrahim Lipumba Dar es Salaam--A top Tanzanian opposition party leader was charged Wednesday with holding political rallies without a permit, prompting fellow lawmakers...
Moscow--Over 25 years after the Berlin Wall's fall, Russian lawmakers are mulling a proposal to condemn West Germany's 1990 "annexation" of East Germany...
Sherween, Iraq--Qusay Mahmud Ali returned to find his house north of the Iraqi capital burned, what appeared to be bomb-making material left behind...
Monrovia--A potent symbol of the nightmare enveloping west Africa at the height of the Ebola outbreak, the ELWA-3 treatment centre is being dismantled...
Addis Ababa--The African Union plans to launch an Ebola Solidarity Fund, officials said Wednesday, as aid agency Oxfam warned the continent's leaders needed...
Madrid--A helicopter loaded with hashish crashed in southern Spain after hitting an electricity pylon, killing its two pilots, police said Wednesday. The helicopter...
Tehran--Iranian officials will meet with European members of the P5+1 group in Istanbul on Thursday under the ongoing diplomatic effort to secure a...
President Ashraf Ghani Kabul--Afghan lawmakers on Wednesday rejected most of President Ashraf Ghani's nominees for the new cabinet, in a fresh setback for...
Bamako--An attack overnight in northern Mali by a pro-government armed group including suicide bombers killed a dozen people, security sources said Wednesday. "GATIA...
Ali Salman Dubai--Bahraini Shiite opposition chief Sheikh Ali Salman, in custody for allegedly trying to overthrow the kingdom's Sunni regime, rejected the charge...
Kobane, Syria--Rubble strewn streets, gutted buildings: the ferocious battle for the Syrian border town of Kobane has wrought massive destruction, according to a...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories--Dozens of protesters Wednesday tried to storm the Gaza headquarters of the United Nations, an AFP correspondent said, after the...
Port Harcourt,--Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday took his re-election campaign to the Niger Delta, knowing that victory in the key region will...
Baghdad--The Islamic State group has suffered "devastating" blows in Syria's Kobane and on several Iraqi fronts, but analysts warn such victories in the...
