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  Desna, Ukraine--Vitaliy Karpunets crawls under barbed wire before jumping over a smoking bonfire into a trench as he fires off his Kalashnikov at...

  Rome--The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) said Tuesday it would maintain operations in Yemen despite mounting insecurity which has forced the withdrawal of...

  Lashio, Myanmar--Myanmar declared a state of emergency on Tuesday in a conflict-torn border region where ferocious fighting between the army and ethnic rebels...

  Sarre-Union, France--President Francois Hollande vowed the state would protect French Jews with all its force as he led a ceremony Tuesday at a...

  Pristina--Kosovo marked a sombre seventh anniversary of independence from Serbia Tuesday as the mainly ethnic Albanian territory grapples with an exodus triggered by...

  Aden--Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed a senior police officer and his bodyguard on Tuesday in Yemen's southeastern province of Hadramawt, a stronghold of the...

  Istanbul--Turkey has stepped up arrests of activists accused of personally insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, detaining at least four people in the last...

  Juba--Warring forces in South Sudan battled Tuesday in the oil-rich Upper Nile state, the defence minster said, claiming insurgents were trying to capture...

  Geneva,--The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday condemned the mass beheadings of Egyptian Christians in Libya and urged Libyans to fight Islamist...

  Niamey--Thousands of people marched in Niger's capital Niamey on Tuesday to protest against Boko Haram after regional forces claimed successes against the Islamists...

  Thousands of people today bid a tearful adieu to R R Patil as the former Maharashtra deputy chief minister was cremated here with...

  Over 60 countries including India will participate in a White House summit on “countering violent extremism” beginning today in the backdrop of alarming...

  New Delhi-- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal here Tuesday sought the services of Indian Forest Service officer Sanjeev Chaturvedi as his Officer on...

  Hyderabad-- The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is not planning to join the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) central government, a state cabinet minister said...

  Bhubaneswar-- Six people, including two children, died Tuesday when the autorickshaw they were travelling in was hit by a speeding truck in Odisha's...

  MANILA, Philippines - The Aquino government will have a simple commemoration of the 29th anniversary of the EDSA People Power next week. EDSA...

  MANILA, Philippines - Malacañang expects the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to accept possible revisions in the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) due...

  DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Xinhua) - One leftist rebel commander has been captured by government troops following a foiled attack on a police station...