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Residents inspect a site hit by what residents said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in the town of Darat...

  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA:  More than half a million children in Yemen face life-threatening malnutrition as a risk of famine grows, a senior...

LYON: Global police body Interpol said Friday it will launch a new operation targeting organised criminal networks behind people smuggling. Operation Hydra will...

  By Chris Arsenault TORONTO:  Rich nations are spending $250 billion annually subsidizing their agricultural sectors to the detriment of poor farmers as they...

  MADRID: Spanish police said Friday they have smashed a network which smuggled Moroccans into Spain, arresting seven Moroccans and freeing a man they...

Miguel Arias Canete By Benet Koleka TIRANA:  The European Union will push for an U.N. deal to cap global warming that spans the...

NEW YORK: Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer disclosed Friday that he has taken a four percent stake in Twitter, expressing confidence in...

  By Julia Fioretti LONDON: Companies could face action from European privacy regulators if the European Commission and United States do not come up...

BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday defended a proposal to set up "transit zones" at German borders to filter out migrants who clearly...

Central American migrants stand on top of train cars while waiting for the freight train "La Bestia," or the Beast, to travel north...

LYON: Martin Scorsese is planning a fresh chapter in his four-decade partnership with Robert De Niro with a new movie called "The Irishman",...

  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS: The United States has confirmed that Iran tested a medium-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear weapon, in...

KUWAIT: Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) denied today any radiation leakage from Shuaiba Refinery following the fire accident that broke out inside the...

By David Lawder WASHINGTON:  When Boeing Co., General Electric Co. and other companies wanted to show Congress last February the dangers of closing...

  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES: Mixed martial arts fighter Jason "Mayhem" Miller was arrested on Friday on a charge of suspicion of assault...

  WASHINGTON:  President Barack Obama said on Friday the only area of U.S. understanding with Russia on Syria was on how to prevent accidental...

By Andrew Finkel The date 10/10 is now synonymous with Turkey's most deadly terrorist attack in history - the day this month when...

  By James Mackenzie and Jibran Ahmad KABUL:  The Taliban on Friday brushed aside a U.S. decision to delay withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, saying...