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DOHA: HE the Minister of the Municipality and Urban Planning Sheikh Abdurrahman bin Khalifa Al Thani has confirmed that the ministry is concerned...

  Mogadishu--Somalia's Shebab, who attacked a Kenyan university on Thursday, seizing hostages and killing several, have stepped up attacks in Kenya since its army...

  Riyadh--A Saudi adviser on Thursday denied that special forces from the kingdom had landed in Yemen's port city of Aden, saying they were...

London--Charges have been dropped against a British-Iranian woman controversially jailed last year in Tehran after trying to attend a men's volleyball match, her...

  Dushanbe, Tajikistan--Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that global powers and Iran were "only steps" from a negotiated deal aimed at...

  Berlin--German prosecutors said Friday the co-pilot suspected of deliberately crashing a Germanwings plane in the French Alps had searched online for information about...

Tirana--Albanian police on Thursday arrested a lawmaker convicted in Belgium in absentia for a murder carried out in 1999. paving the way for...

  Tikrit, Iraq--Exploding bombs send clouds of dust rising into the air over the Iraqi city of Tikrit, houses and businesses burn and civilians...

Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche   Tunis--Tunisia announced Thursday plans to appoint a consular or diplomatic representative to war-hit Syria, more than three years after...

        Riyadh--Ships weighed anchor and schools were closed in parts of Saudi Arabia on Thursday after a vicious sandstorm passed through the desert kingdom....

  Washington--The Muslim and Christian populations could be nearly equal by 2050, with Islam expected to be the fastest-growing faith on the planet, according...

  Bratislava--Serbian ultra-nationalist Vojislav Seselj, who on Wednesday burnt a Croatian flag in public in Belgrade, does not represent Serbia, the country's prime minister...

  Marseille--The second black box from the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps last week has been found after a nine-day search,...

  Blantyre, Malawi--Malawi on Thursday postponed the burning of four tonnes of ivory, saying it would wait until more elephant tusks were released from...

  Paris--A French court on Thursday summoned former Guantanamo prison chief Geoffrey Miller over accusations of torture by two former detainees, their lawyer told...

  Islamabad--Military courts in Pakistan have given death sentences to six militants on terror charges, the army said Thursday, the first convictions since the...

  Garissa, Kenya--Masked gunmen from Somalia's Shebab Islamist group stormed a Kenyan university Thursday as students were sleeping, hurling grenades and shooting dead at...

  Aden--Rebel forces seized Thursday Yemeni President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi's palace in his former southern refuge Aden, a senior security official told AFP. "Dozens...