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  Kraków, Poland: A Polish court on Friday ruled against extraditing to the United States Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski, who pleaded guilty in 1977...

Nouakchott: Just-released Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mauritania's Ahmed Ould Abdel Aziz, appeared in public at home on Friday for the first time and said...

A refugee prepares to hand over a toddler to a volunteer lifeguard as a half-sunken catamaran carrying around 150 refugees, most of them...

  Stockholm: A Swedish court on Friday sentenced an Eritrean man to life in prison for fatally stabbing two people with kitchen knives in...

  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON: In 2013, a U.S. guided-missile ship veered sharply to avoid a Chinese navy vessel that tried to block its...

  Islamabad: Pakistani opposition leader and former playboy cricketer Imran Khan is to divorce for a second time, ending his marriage to a TV...

Vienna: Iran's first presence in international talks on Syria underscore a special relationship between the two countries' governments, based in part on a...

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian speaks during a news conference in Moscow, Russia, September 22, 2015. Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev   By Parisa Hafezi and...

Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav   Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday sacked eight cabinet ministers and withdrew portfolios...

People including polictical leaders eating beef fry in Kerala House.   New Delhi: In the wake of a political furore over the 'raid' by...

Presidential candidates Donald Trump (2nd L) speaks while Sen. Marco Rubio (L-R), Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Sen. Ted Cruz look on during the...

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari addresses delegates during The India-Africa Summit in New Delhi on October 29, 2015.   ABUJA: Nigeria's Senate confirmed the remaining...

John Magufuli   Dar es Salaam: Tanzania's ruling party candidate John Magufuli won hotly contested presidential elections, officials announced Thursday, but the opposition said...

Passengers evacuate from the plane on fire at Fort Lauderdale airport, Florida on October 29, 2015.   Miami: An airliner caught fire on a...

Rwandan President Paul Kagame   Kigali: Rwanda's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a constitutional amendment enabling President Paul Kagame to run for...

Geneva: The seasonal hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica has widened to near-record size, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that...

Pakistani earthquake survivor Mir Wali, looks on among the rubble of his damaged house in Charun Avir village, some 65 km north of...

Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece.   Rome: Italian politicians have expressed outrage after it emerged that public broadcaster RAI paid Greece's flamboyant...