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VITORIA, Brazil: Authorities in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo on Wednesday requested more federal troops to stem a crime wave amid an...

LIMA: Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori said on Wednesday that he was extending his more than weeklong stay in a hospital outside his...

MOSCOW: Anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny shot to the head of Russia's opposition as one of the leaders of the biggest protests against Vladimir...

SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir: A Hindu nationalist political party has launched a systematic campaign calling for the expulsion of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya refugees...

GENEVA: The testimony of Rohingya Muslims who fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh has been described as "absolutely horrendous" and "shocking" by a top...

Mogadishu: Somali lawmakers were choosing a president under tight security Wednesday, with roads closed and residents urged to remain indoors over fears of...

BUCHAREST: Romania’s Social Democrat-led government easily survived a no-confidence motion in parliament on Wednesday, three days after mass street protests forced it into...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh: More than 1,000 Rohingya Muslims may have been killed in a Myanmar army crackdown, according to two senior United Nations...

BOGOTA: Colombia’s attorney general on Wednesday called for a probe into whether President Juan Manuel Santos’s 2014 campaign received as much as $1...

JERUSALEM: Rights groups petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday to annul a heavily criticised law that retroactively legalised some 4,000 settler homes built...

London: The British government "does not believe there should be a second referendum" on Scottish independence, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokeswoman said Wednesday,...

HARARE: Zimbabwe’s Constitutional Court dismissed a case against President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday lodged by an activist who accused the ageing leader of...

GAZA: Egypt has eased restrictions at a tightly-controlled border with the Gaza trip in a sign of improved relations with the Palestinian territory’s...

Baghdad: Hundreds of supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr demonstrated in Baghdad Wednesday to demand electoral reform ahead of a planned provincial vote...

KABUL: Islamic State claimed responsibility on Wednesday for a suicide attack that killed at least 22 people outside Afghanistan's Supreme Court.  The bomber,...

CAPE TOWN: South African bullion producer Gold Fields is gearing up for an operation to capture and relocate a population of critically endangered...

ANKARA: Two Turkish soldiers have been killed and 58 Islamic State members killed during the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria, according...

BEIJING: U.S. President Donald Trump's order temporarily banning visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries shows that his administration does not understand its counterterrorism duties,...