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Turkish PM ISTANBUL--Turkey's Islamic-rooted government on Thursday unveiled a new reform package aimed at realising President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ambition for married couples...

  SANAA--Yemen's top security body has blamed Al-Qaeda for a bomb blast at a police academy in Sanaa, as authorities gave a new toll...

  ATHENS--A new opinion poll released Thursday showed that three quarters of Greeks want to remain "at any price" in the eurozone as the...

  ABOARD THE KRI BANDA ACEH WARSHIP, INDONESIA--Elite Indonesian military divers battled powerful currents on Thursday to reach the submerged tail of crashed AirAsia...

  CAIRO--An Egyptian court is to deliver a verdict on April 21 in the trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and 14 others charged...

  ROME--Italy's former premier Silvio Berlusconi has asked for 45 days to be knocked off his year's community service for tax fraud, Italian media...

Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu NEW DELHI--An Indian public official has been sacked for taking leave 24 years ago and never returning to his...

  BERLIN--A court-appointed expert said Thursday that a German former male nurse had admitted killing around 30 patients at a hospital where he worked,...

  COLOMBO--Sri Lankans turned out in large numbers Thursday, shrugging off some reports of voter intimidation to vote in the island's tightest election in...

  YANGON--Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside an airport in restive western Myanmar on Thursday in protest against a planned human rights visit by a...

  ISLAMABAD--Pakistan on Thursday condemned an Islamist attack on a French magazine that has outraged many Muslims for its irreverent cartoons of the Prophet...

  TEHRAN--France must review its policy towards the Middle East and the Muslim world following the deadly attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine...

  LAGOS--Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday formally began his campaign for re-election, taking the fight to a key opposition stronghold with a mass...

  Gaza City, Palestinian Territories--Living by candlelight with no electricity and reliant on sandbags to stop their ruined homes flooding, Gazans who survived last...

  PARIS--Two brothers suspected of having gunned down 12 people in an Islamist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were spotted Thursday morning and...

  PARIS--The French satirical newspaper whose staff was decimated in the attack by two gunmen will come out as scheduled next week, one of...

  PARIS--France's main Islamic groups urged Muslims across the country to observe a minute of silence on Thursday and for imams to condemn terrorism...

  ANKARA--Turkey has urged all Turkish citizens remaining in Libya to leave "quickly" due to the deteriorating security situation in the conflict-torn country. Turkey...