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Dubai - The Saudi-led intervention in Yemen is aimed at marking the kingdom's territory in the face of Iran's rising regional influence, analysts...

Damascus - Perched on a makeshift bench taking turns with a sniper rifle, the Syrian army's top markswomen await their "prey" on the...

Sanaa - Arab coalition warplanes bombed rebel camps in Yemen Friday in a second straight day of strikes led by Saudi Arabia, which...

Beijing - Beijing escalated its war of words with the Philippines over the South China Sea on Friday, decrying Manila as "hypocritical" for...

Seyne-les-Alpes , France - Dozens of specialised police and rescue workers kicked off a fourth day of recovery operations on Friday at the...

Bangkok - A family of suspected Uighur Muslims at the centre of a diplomatic tussle between China and Turkey must remain in detention...

Bangkok - A new Thai constitution being drafted by the ruling junta is a throwback to an era when a royalist and military...

Istanbul - Turkey's army chief General Necdet Ozel and top commanders have for the first time visited the new location of a historic...

Mumbai - Indian authorities have found the bodies of two navy pilots whose plane crashed into the sea on Tuesday. A navy statement...

Montabaur, Germany - The Germanwings co-pilot who flew his Airbus into a French mountainside, killing all 150 aboard, suffered serious depression, a German...

Karachi -  A Taliban bomb blast hit a police van in Karachi Friday, killing at least two policemen and wounding 14 other people,...

Phnom Penh - A Cambodian court on Friday sentenced three people to between 10 and 15 years jail for organ trafficking, after they...

Manila - The Philippines will "exhaust all possible legal means" to save a Filipina who is on death row in Indonesia after being...

Ankara - The Turkish parliament on Friday passed a stripped down version of its controversial homeland security bill that has enraged the opposition...

London - British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond will join the Iran nuclear talks in Switzerland this weekend, a foreign ministry spokesman said on...

Washington - Two experimental Ebola vaccines, tested in Liberia on more than 600 people in a phase 2 clinical trial appear to be...

Seoul - The global fund created to spearhead climate change financing has selected its first partners to channel funds to developing countries, but...

Berlin - Police searching a home of the German co-pilot who officials say appears to have deliberately crashed a plane into the French...