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ANKARA/ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities ordered on Saturday that the editor and senior staff of a leading opposition newspaper be arrested pending trial, as more...

By Babak Dehghanpisheh NEAR HAMMAM AL-ALIL, Iraq: Iraqi troops advancing towards Mosul battled on Saturday for the last town left between them and...

Johannesburg: South Africa's embattled President Jacob Zuma put on a brave face Saturday at his first public appearance since the release of fresh...

MILAN: Italy's tax police said they had found a clear link between people trafficking and militants after detaining a Syrian man who entered...

Quetta, Pakistan: The death toll from a recent explosion and fire at a Pakistan shipbreaking yard has risen to 20, officials said Saturday,...

Kano, Nigeria: The Nigerian military said on Saturday it had rescued another of the missing Chibok schoolgirls near the border with Cameroon. "Nigerian...

Bartalla, Iraq: Iraqi special forces threw themselves back into battle Saturday after a first foray into Mosul was blunted by stiffer than expected...

Baghdad: Elite Iraqi forces are facing tough resistance as they battle the Islamic State group in eastern Mosul. Here are some facts about...

Paris: A French soldier deployed to an anti-Islamist force in Mali died overnight from injuries sustained in a mine blast, the presidency said...

Cleveland: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump brandished starkly different visions of America as they headed into a fierce final weekend of campaigning Saturday,...

Miami: For decades, older Cubans have loved to talk politics as they played dominoes and slapped tiles down on the board. And they...

WASHINGTON: Long-frustrated backers of statehood for the District of Columbia are pinning their hopeson a first-ever referendum on Tuesday in a long-shot bid...

Madrid: The most senior leader of the Basque separatist group ETA still at large was arrested Saturday in southwest France, Spanish authorities said....

SEOUL: Tens of thousands of South Koreans protested in central Seoul on Saturday in one the largest demonstrations in the country's capital for...

NINEVEH, Iraq: Iraqi forces on Saturday pushed deeper into the last Islamic State stronghold south of Mosul, the Iraqi army said. In a...

Lyon: A French court has handed a three-month suspended jail sentence to a teenager who named his domestic wifi network after the Islamic...

Lagos: Nigerian military have thwarted attempted suicide attacks in the restive northeast, the epicentre of the seven-year Boko Haram insurgency, the army has...

New Delhi: A Japanese man died in a paragliding accident in north India's Himachal Pradesh state, popular with both domestic and foreign tourists...