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  Islamabad- Intelligence agencies have recommended putting all airports of Pakistan on red alert for security reasons, local media quoting officials reported today. The...

  JAKARTA-- Indonesia halted the search for a missing AirAsia plane as darkness fell on Sunday and will resume the operation in the morning,...

GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories--Hamas on Sunday prevented dozens of children orphaned during its 50-day war with Israel from entering Israeli territory in a...

  GAZA CITY--Eight Palestinian unity government ministers are to travel to Gaza from its West Bank base on Monday for only the second time...

  CONAKRY--An EU aid shipment including vehicles and medical equipment for the three west African nations hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic has arrived...

  TRIPOLI-- Forces loyal to Libya's recognised government staged air strikes on targets in Misrata on Sunday in the first such attacks on the...

  ISTANBUL--A teenager was shot and killed in southeastern Turkey on Saturday in clashes between members of a Kurdish Islamist party and youths linked...

  TEHRAN-- A senior Iranian military officer has been killed while advising Iraqi troops in their fight against the Islamic State group, Iran's Revolutionary...

  ROME--A Turkish-registered merchant ship sank in the northern Adriatic Sea off the Italian port of Ravenna Sunday following a collision with another vessel...

  KIEV--Ukraine on Sunday shut down one of the six reactors in its most powerful nuclear power plant for the second time in a...

Angela Merkel   BERLIN--German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday welcomed a prisoner swap between Ukraine's government and pro-Russian rebels but expressed regret about the...

  CAIRO-- Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded three others in a drive-by attack on a patrol in Egypt's second city Alexandria on Sunday,...

  MANILA--The House committee on health is set to conduct an inquiry into reports that peritoneal dialysis patients can hardly access dialysis treatment and...

Yevgenia Albats   MOSCOW-- The editor-in-chief of Russia's top opposition magazine, The New Times, has been accused of disobeying traffic police in Moscow and...

  HONG KONG--Hong Kong hospitals raised alert levels Sunday as a woman diagnosed with the deadly H7N9 avian flu virus was in a critical...

  SEOUL--South Korea's nuclear power operator said on Sunday that cyber-attacks on non-critical operations at the company's headquarters are continuing but the country's nuclear...

  KABUL--NATO will hold a ceremony in Kabul later Sunday formally ending its war in Afghanistan, officials said, after 13 years of conflict that...

  ATHENS--A rescue operation is under way in high winds in Greek waters for an Italian ferry carrying 466 people that has caught fire,...