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RAMALLAH: Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a message to his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday to mark the International Day of Solidarity...

JUBA, South Sudan:  Forty people were killed and dozens others kidnapped when an armed group attacked a tribal community in Duk Padiet in...

ROME: Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri will "certainly" remain prime minister and the country's political crisis "will be resolved definitively in a few days", President...

Paris: Japan and China have more of the world's best restaurants than anywhere else, according to the La Liste ranking, which will be...

Manila: Fifteen suspected communist guerrillas including six women have been killed in a gunbattle, the Philippine military said on Wednesday, days after President...

Mumbai: Mumbai cafe owner Boman Kohinoor, arguably India's biggest fan of the British royal family, wants Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to honeymoon...

Singapore: A Singaporean activist was charged Wednesday for organising public protests without a permit, sparking calls for the tightly controlled city-state to stop...

Beijing: China on Wednesday voiced "grave concern" over North Korea's test of a missile capable of striking anywhere in the United States and...

Denpasar, Indonesia: Bali's international airport will re-open Wednesday afternoon after a nearly three-day shutdown, Indonesian airport authorities said, as ash from a rumbling...

MEXICO CITY, Two human heads were discovered in a cooler outside an office of broadcaster Televisa in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, authorities...

SEOUL/WASHINGTON: North Korea said it had successfully tested a powerful new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that splashed into the sea near Japan and...

Tegucigalpa, Honduran opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla on Tuesday accused incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez of trying to steal the Central American country's bitterly-disputed...

WASHINGTON, The US Supreme Court on Wednesday takes up a major test of privacy rights in the digital age as it weighs whether...

Sydney: Two teenagers have been charged with planning an attack at a school in Australia using guns and explosives in an act police...

Beijing, A Beijing kindergarten teacher used sewing needles to punish children for not sleeping, police said, but other abuse claims have been rejected...

Jerusalem, As Friday's deadline nears for Gaza's Hamas rulers to cede power to the rival Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority, hopes for a new dawn...

Cairo:  The head of an Egyptian school was suspended after photos emerged showing a group of students acting out last week's deadly attack...

NEW YORK:  The Uzbek immigrant accused of killing eight people by speeding a rental truck down a New York City bike path in...