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Riyadh: The Saudi Royal Court announced today that Prince Mohammed bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has passed away. The court said in...

New York: Although US President Barack Obama is set to leave office in less than a week, his signature will stand testimony on...

Baghdad: Since the start of the Iraqi military operation to retake Mosul in October last year, more than 144,500 people have been displaced...

Istanbul: Turkey has arrested two Chinese nationals of Uighur origin in connection with a mass shooting in a nightclub in Istanbul on New...

Suva, Fiji: A shallow 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Fiji on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no...

BAGHDAD (AA): Iraqi forces on Friday seized a government complex -- and other sites -- in eastern Mosul following clashes with Islamic State...

Dhaka: Bangladeshi police Saturday said they have arrested an Islamist extremist accused of being one of the "masterminds" of last year's deadly siege...

Carlini Base, Antarctica: Vast icy rock peaks tower above Argentina's Carlini research base in Antarctica. But scientists who have worked here for decades...

SHANGHAI: A man in China's central Henan province has become the latest person reported to have died this winter from H7N9 bird flu,...

United Nations, United States: US Ambassador Samantha Power on Friday warned that cutting US funding to the United Nations would be "extremely detrimental"...

London: The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator has told colleagues that they need to strike a "special" deal with Britain's finance sector in...

Abidjan: Ivory Coast's government and rebel troops reached a deal at talks in second city Bouake late Friday, government sources said, even as...

PARIS: Francois Fillon, the conservative politician seen by opinion polls as most likely to win the French presidential election this year, says France...

NEW YORK: Hundreds of domestic cats have been quarantined in New York City after contracting a strain of highly contagious avian flu at...

Washington: The US House of Representatives on Friday joined the Senate in passing a critical measure that marks the first major step toward...

Mexico City: Mexico appointed its third ambassador to the United States in less than a year just days before inauguration of President-elect Donald...

Kathmandu: Ten years after the end of Nepal’s bloody civil war, the Himalayan republic has failed to punish perpetrators of human rights abuses...

Beijing: Footage of a 92-year-old Chinese woman reportedly kept for years by her son in a pigsty has incited an online firestorm, as...