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   Manila: Philippine President Benigno Aquino pledged a warm welcome for China's leader Xi Jinping at an economic summit in Manila next week, despite...

   Beijing: Around three million extra babies will be born each year after Beijing abolished its hugely controversial "one child" policy to allow all...

   Bumburate, Pakistan: Conservative Muslims in Pakistan's northwest are blaming the animist Kalash for a powerful earthquake that flattened entire villages in October, claiming...

   Ljubljana: Slovenian government said Monday it would take urgent measures to strengthen control of its Schengen border with Croatia, fearing an expected new...

   Washington: Britain's foreign minister said Monday it is highly likely that a bomb planted by a supporter of the Islamic State group downed...

   Tripoli: When young Moroccan Rachid paid $1,500 to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, he never thought he would end up instead in a...

   Acapulco, Mexico: A weekend of violence killed at least 16 people in Mexico's troubled southern state of Guerrero as shootings erupted at a...

  Cairo:  Anomalies have been found in Egypt's Khufu pyramid two weeks into a thermal scanning project aimed at discovering the famed pharaonic monument...

      By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS: Somalia has transformed itself from a "failed to recovering state" in recent years, but any cutbacks in support...

Liberian Peace Nobel Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, presents Abraham Keita the International Children's Peace Prize 2015, for his efforts to improve children's rights...

  By Jonathan Landay and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON: Russian communications intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies showed Russia believed the plane that crashed in Sinai,...

Washington: The University of Missouri's president resigned Monday amid controversy over his handling of racial tensions on campus that prompted several black football...

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS: Violence in Burundi is in danger of escalating to mass atrocity crimes, the United Nations warned on Monday,...

  By Paul Lienert and Andreas Cremer DETROIT/BERLIN: Volkswagen AG took new steps on Monday to appease U.S. customers and German union leaders unhappy...

BOSTON: A New Hampshire woman on Monday sued Bill Cosby for defamation, saying he falsely accused her of lying last year when she...

  By Stephen Eisenhammer and Marta Nogueira BENTO RODRIGUES, Brazil: A river of mud from burst dams at a Brazilian iron ore mine forced...

   Abuja: A Nigerian former government minister who disrupted the declaration of presidential election results earlier this year was on Monday charged with bribery...

Caption United Nations, United States: Ending the crisis in Yemen is crucial to prevent Islamic State jihadists from shoring up Somalia's weakened Shebab,...