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  UN envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon   Skhirat, Maroc---UN envoy to Libya Bernardino Leon urged rival Libyan lawmakers Friday to try to nail down...

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu   Jerusalem---Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has begun to tone down anti-Palestinian rhetoric in order to mend ties with...

    Moscow---Russia on Friday added a branch of a Norwegian-based environmental NGO to its list of "foreign agents" under a controversial law that critics...

  Lausanne---Marathon talks towards an Iran nuclear deal looked likely Friday to go down to the wire of a March 31 deadline, with negotiations...

      Addis Ababa---Ethiopia on Friday torched a six-tonne pile of seized elephant ivory, the country's entire stock, vowing a "zero tolerance" policy towards poachers...

    Gaza City, Palestinian Territories---Egypt arrested nine Palestinian fishermen off the coast of the Gaza Strip Friday, the fishing union said, amid tense relations...

    Cairo---More than 45,000 Egyptians have fled Libya since jihadists published a video last month showing the beheading of Coptic Christians, most of them...

Michelle Obama   Siem Reap, Cambodia---Michelle Obama flew into Cambodia late Friday becoming the first wife of a sitting US president to visit the...

  Havana---A court in Cuba has condemned several government officials to prison terms of between five and 15 years for stealing and selling millions...

  Brussels---EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini held talks Friday with British, French and German leaders to discuss ongoing negotiations on Iran's contested nuclear...

  Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Tehran---Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif urged the United States and five other world powers Friday to...

  Taipei---Taiwan is facing its worst drought in over a decade after the lowest rainfall in nearly 70 years, forcing some major cities to...

    Aden---A top Yemeni officer linked to the Shiite militia opposed to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi escaped an assassination bid near the southern city...

  Lausanne---Marathon talks towards an Iran nuclear deal picked up pace Friday as US President Barack Obama appealed to Tehran to seize an "historic"...

    Tokyo---Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to become the first Japanese leader to address a joint session of the US Congress when he visits...

    Baghdad---The Islamic State group claimed to have beheaded three Iraqi Kurdish fighters in an online video and threatened to kill more unless the...

  Sanaa---Powerful armed groups have sidelined Yemen's government ever since a 2011 popular uprising forced long-time president Ali Abdullah Saleh to step down. Shiite...

      Hong Kong---A huge two-tonne haul of scales from the endangered pangolin anteater have been seized by Hong Kong Customs in a bust worth...