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Fuel tanker trucks carrying smuggled petrol are seen on a road linking Bir Ali with Ataq city, the provincial capital of Shabwa province,...

US Presdent Barack Obama (L) speaks with 91-year-old Sunao Tsuboi (2nd R), a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as Japanese...

  Berlin: German police said Friday they have arrested an Italian fugitive convicted for killing his sister and her brother-in-law in Sicily more than...

CAIRO: An Egyptian human rights activist said on Thursday that airport security officials prevented him flying to Tunisia and told him he was...

A migrant walks past a makeshift restaurant in the so-called "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais on February 23, 2016. AFP / Denis Charlet...

  Washington: Facebook has become an important news source for close to half of American adults, a study showed Thursday amid increased scrutiny over...

  Bismarck, United States: Donald Trump on Thursday secured the support of enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, after unbound delegates pledged...

Ahmed al-Kholifey   RIYADH: Saudi Arabia does not intend to alter its exchange rate policy, newly appointed central bank governor Ahmed al-Kholifey told the...

By Scott Malone Connecticut’s top court on Thursday upheld its ban on executions in the state in a decision that will spare the...

A woman takes photos of the burned remains of a house in the Abasand neighbourhood of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, May 9, 2016....

People hold flags and banners of the Congolese party "Courant Democrates Renovateurs - Reformist Democrat Movement" (CDER) as they march in Kinshasa on...

Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump takes questions during a news conference in Bismarck, North Dakota, U.S., May 26, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst     BISMARCK,...

Kenneth Starr speaks to the media after arguing a case on student free-speech rights before the Supreme Court in Washington March 19, 2007....

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: AFP   By Sophie Davies   RIO DE JANEIRO: Years after giving into family pressure and having an illegal abortion, one Brazilian woman...

REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE: Women and their children visit a clinic at Sinza Health Centre in Tanzania capital Dar es Salaam, May 2, 2011. REUTERS...

Representative image. UN Photo   By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK: A United Nations meeting on how to implement a landmark agreement on limiting global...

Oman Parliament, Al Bustan, Muscat. Photo courtesy: Times of Oman   MUSCAT: Oman’s parliament voted on Thursday to sharply raise taxes on the petrochemical...

After the first trial, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that the elements of Java at issue were not eligible for copyright protection...