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DOHA: Doha Youth Forum Art Contest jury selected 26 winners from paintings presented by Qatar schools pupils, organisers said Wednesday. The jury selected...

Bogota - Ten soldiers were killed and 17 injured in western Colombia Wednesday, in an attack on a army garrison that officials blamed...

  Riyadh - Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded one of its citizens for drug trafficking, adding to what Amnesty International has called a "macabre...

Ottawa - Canada's prime minister announced a breakthrough deal Wednesday to supply uranium to India for electricity generation, putting behind decades of discord...

Aden - Saudi-led coalition air strikes hit rebel targets in and around Yemen's main southern city of Aden on Wednesday as clashes with...

  Bamako--A suicide bomber attacked a UN barracks in northern Mali on Wednesday, the United Nations said, killing three civilians and wounding 16 people,...

  Ottawa--Canada's prime minister announced a breakthrough deal Wednesday to supply uranium to India, putting behind decades of discord over India's surreptitious use of...

Daughter of Asia Bibi   Vatican City--Pope Francis on Wednesday met the husband and daughter of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to...

  New York--Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday for the first-degree murder of a semi-pro football...

Monticello, United States - Hillary Clinton's 1,000-mile road trip brought her Tuesday to a small town in America's agricultural heartland for the first...

  Hyderabad, India--Police in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh were Wednesday charged with the murder of 20 suspected red sandalwood smugglers, an...

  Akhisar, Turkey--Eight former managers from the mine where Turkey's worst industrial disaster occurred in May 2014 appeared in court Wednesday on murder charges,...

  New York - Hundreds of New Yorkers took to the streets on Tuesday to protest against fresh police killings of unarmed black men,...

  Berlin--Divisions surfaced in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government Wednesday on whether the country which is Europe's top destination for asylum seekers should take...

  Madrid--Spain's foreign ministry on Wednesday summoned Venezuela's ambassador in Madrid to protest against comments made by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro describing Spanish Prime...

  Moscow--The prime minister of Libya's internationally recognised government appealed Wednesday for Russia's help in securing the lifting of an arms embargo on the...

  Dhaka--A two-storey tin shanty collapsed on a low flood plain in the Bangladeshi capital on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people with several...

  United Nations, United States--A UN envoy will travel to Iraq and Syria this week to address the disturbing use of rape, sex slavery...