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JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State John Kerry shuttled between Jerusalem and Amman yesterday as he tried to revive moribund Middle East peace negotiations,...

GAZA CITY: Gaza’s Hamas Premier Ismail Haniyah yesterday urged Mahmoud Abbas not to begin talks with Israel, as US Secretary of State John...

FALLUJAH: Attacks targeting Iraqi police and anti-Al Qaeda militiamen killed 15 people yesterday, in spiralling violence that has claimed almost 1,500 lives in...

ST PETERSBURG: Iran will press ahead with its uranium enrichment programme, its nuclear energy chief said yesterday, signalling no immediate change of course...

Smokes rises from a military station as people run away during clashes with Turkish security forces yesterday. DIYARBAKIR: Turkish security forces killed one...

RIYADH: The Gulf Cooperation Council will hold a meeting in Riyadh next week to agree the mechanisms for imposing sanctions on members of...

SAN FRANCISCO:  Facebook Inc said it will no longer allow ads to appear on pages with sexual or violent content, as the online...

President Correa declared that the safe conduct pass issued by Ecuador's London consul – in collaboration with Assange – was unauthorised. Photograph: EPA...

Doha: With an additional 45 new items, the Ministry of Business and Trade has imposed a price freeze on 320 food and non-food...

The price freeze imposed by the Ministry of Business and Trade on a number of food and non-food items during Ramadan is aimed...

PARIS: French tycoon Bernard Tapie was charged Friday in a corruption probe over a huge state payout to him that has embroiled IMF...

MANILA: Peace talks between the Philippine government and Muslim rebels will resume on July 8 in Kuala Lumpur with the contentious issue of...

BEIRUT: A Kurdish militia allied with Turkey's rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) imposed a curfew on the Syrian border town of Amuda on...

US and Philippine navy personnel aboard a rigid hull inflatable boat during the Philippine-US joint naval training exercise off the Philippine Naval Station...

ZAMBOANGA, Philippines: Soldiers killed two Islamic extremists and wounded five others in the southern Philippines as government forces continued searching for two kidnapped...

  This photograph made available by The Straits Times newspaper on June 27, 2013 shows people waiting in a queue to purchase a Hello...

JOS, Nigeria: Gunmen have raided three villages in ethnically divided central Nigeria, leaving at least 28 people dead in what appeared to be...

HONG KONG: British publisher Pearson on Friday denied a report that media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Abu Dhabi's state media group are in...