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LONDON: A group of firefighters in West Yorkshire, England, executed an unusual rescue this week when they freed a sheep wedged in a...

Astana, Kazakhstan: Syrian regime allies Russia and Iran and rebel backer Turkey on Thursday signed a memorandum on a Moscow-backed plan to create...

Astana, Kazakhstan: Syrian rebels on Thursday resumed participation in peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana centred around a Russian-backed plan to create...

MUMBAI: An Egyptian woman widely believed to have been the world's heaviest woman left an Indian hospital on Thursday more than 300 kg...

Beijing: China vowed to remain a good neighbour to North Korea on Thursday, despite a rare and stinging critique in Pyongyang's state media...

Baghdad: Iraq's armed forces on Thursday opened a new front against ISIS in Mosul in the northwest of the country, an Iraqi military...

WASHINGTON: A council of local members who live in and around Raqqah, Syria, will rule the city after it is cleared of IS,...

TEHRAN: An explosion at a coal mine in northern Iran killed at least 35 people on Wednesday, according to the Iranian Labour News...

MOGADISHU, Somalia: Somalia's Minister of Public Works and Reconstruction Abbas Siraj was shot dead in capital Mogadishu on Wednesday evening following a gunfire...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan: The first day of Syria talks in the Kazakh capital ended Wednesday without a breakthrough between the Syrian regime and opposition...

KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Popular Congress Party (PCP) -- founded by late Islamic leader Hassan Alturabi -- has said it would participate in a new...

Maputo: Mozambican opposition leader Afonso Dhlakama on Thursday indefinitely extended a truce he first announced unilaterally in December between his rebel Renamo group...

Mosul, Iraq: Iraqi forces thrust into west Mosul from the north on Thursday, opening a new front in the more than six-month-old offensive...

LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Philip, will stop carrying out public engagements this fall, Buckingham Palace announced Thursday. The palace said in...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi said Wednesday his government -- elected in February this year -- had strategized to defeat the...

ALGIERS: Algerian voters will head to the polls on Thursday to elect members of the country’s national assembly.  Some 12,000 candidates from 35...

TEHRAN: Iran’s public prosecutor on Wednesday heard a lawsuit lodged against an opposition party leader -- known for his close ties with Iran’s...

BERLIN: Germany's top general on Thursday said it was unclear if the officer arrested last week on suspicion of planning a racially motivated...