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File photo Ramallah: Israeli soldiers opened fire on and killed a Palestinian at a military checkpoint near Nablus after he rammed his vehicle...

  Beirut: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the secretive leader of the Islamic State group, called for an uprising in Saudi Arabia and pledged to attack...

Locals attempt to recover belongings at a flooded neighbourhood in Asuncion on Thursday. Constant and heavy rains in the country have caused the...

Milos Zeman   Prague: Czech President Milos Zeman, known for his anti-migrant comments, on Saturday called the current wave of refugees to Europe "an...

Zahran Alloush   Damascus: The United Nations hopes to convene peace talks between Syria's government and opposition on January 25, it said Saturday, a...

Rights groups regularly accuse the regular police and members of the secret police of abusing and torturing detainees. Representative image, Reuters.   Cairo: An...

Former South African president F. W. de Klerk, pictured on February 2, 2015, described the student-led plan, whose British arm is called "Rhodes...

Sat 26 Dec 2015 23:16 France/crime/religion/Islam Ajaccio, France, Dec 26, 2015 (AFP) - Dozens of angry Corsicans staged a fresh protest on the...

  Diyarbakir, Turkey: An armed Kurdish group on Saturday claimed responsibility for an explosion near a plane at Istanbul's second international airport which killed...

  Bamako: Six former fighters were killed this week in an attack claimed by an Islamist group linked to Al-Qaeda in northeastern Mali, the...

  Rio de Janeiro: A waste water dam that burst at a Brazilian mine last month, killing 17 people, will not be rebuilt, the...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan Ankara: President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday met with the Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan Province Nechirvan Barzani,...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani registers for February's election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, at the...

  United Nations, United States: The UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, hopes to convene talks between the government of President Bashar...

  GAZA: The Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza accused Egyptian forces on Saturday of killing a mentally-ill Palestinian who had waded through the sea...

Representative image   A wildfire in Southern California burned over 1,000 acres of land, forced the closure of parts of two major highways and...

  Qamishli, Syria: An alliance of Kurdish and Arab rebels seized a key dam on the Euphrates River from Islamic State group jihadists in...

A man wheels a sick person in a wheelbarrow through the barricades set up by the militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or...