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Moscow: Actress Pamela Anderson on Monday urged Russia to step up the fight to protect rare animals as she met President Vladimir Putin's...

  ROME: Mariuccia Mandelli, founder of the Krizia fashion brand, has died at 90. Mandelli, who was born in the northern city of Bergamo,...

      Tehran: An outbreak of swine flu has left 33 people dead in two provinces of southwestern Iran in the last three weeks, the...

  Claims could be up to 250 million pounds More than 5,000 properties affected Floods in northwest could rewrite record book By Carolyn Cohn...

  Pakistani university where Malik studied under surveillance Measures put in place some time after she left Police official says militancy a problem in...

    Trial adjourned until further notice Court accepts some defence requests, rejects others   By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY: The ‘deputy pope’ will be summoned...

    Sinjar battle cut key route between Mosul and Raqqa Militants resorted to southern road and dirt paths Militants mix with civilian traffic, complicating...

  Letter to EU leaders before summit sees some difficulties Biggest hurdle is British demand to curb EU workers’ benefits Cameron has promised in/out...

Protesters wave Syrian and Kurdish flags in the Kurd-majority town of Amouda / AP file photo   Beirut: Syrian Kurdish factions will host a...

  Beirut: The Islamic State group is pulling in some $80 million a month, mainly from levies and confiscations, but is struggling financially as...

  Baghdad: Baghdad's demand that Ankara withdraw troops it says entered Iraq illegally applies to "Turkish armed forces" in the country's north, but excludes...

  Government already on defensive over graft scandals Presidency says trips are good value, bring investment Opponents say “joy riders” join official delegations     By...

National Front leader Marine Le Pen cast her vote at a polling station during the first round of regional elections in Henin-Beaumont, France,...

  Riga:  Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma said on Monday that she was resigning her post after political squabbles within her centre-right ruling coalition...

  A German passenger plane headed from Berlin to the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada landed in Budapest on Monday after a bomb...

Raul Castro   Havana: Cuba's President Raul Castro consoled his Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro Monday, following a historic election defeat which handed control of...

Jesus Torrealba    By Andrew Cawthorne and Girish Gupta CARACAS: Ecstatic opposition leaders vowed on Monday to use their new majority in Venezuela’s legislature...

GENEVA: Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is prepared to call a ceasefire on Dec. 15 to coincide with the start of U.N.-led peace...