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Miami: Fifty Cubans caught trying to reach US shores in rickety vessels were repatriated this week, the Coast Guard said Wednesday. These Cubans...

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday informed Congress he is sending about 300 US military personnel to Cameroon, the White House said,...

Marko Djuric  By Ivana Sekularac and Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE:  Serbia accused Germany on Wednesday of trying to amend the terms of Belgrade's European...

  By Jeffrey Heller and Maayan Lubell JERUSALEM: Israel began setting up roadblocks in Palestinian neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem and deploying soldiers across the...

  By Luke Baker JERUSALEM:  In the narrow corners of Jerusalem, where Jewish neighbourhoods abut Palestinian ones, apprehension ran deep on Wednesday as Israel...

  Geneva: Doctors Without Borders said Wednesday that an international commission has been formally asked to investigate a deadly US airstrike on an Afghan...

ujumbura: At least seven people have been killed in shootings and a grenade attack on Tuesday in Bujumbura, Burundi's capital, police and local...

Islamabad: Pakistan is deploying some 10,000 troops and 6,000 paramilitary members to prevent sectarian violence during the holy month of Moharram, the interior...

Caption By Magdalena Mis LONDON: Struggling with frequent water cuts, residents of Syria's battered city of Aleppo have a new way to find...

Vienna:The spiralling migrant crisis will cost EU member Austria one billion euros ($740 million) in 2016, the finance ministry announced Wednesday, as the...

  By Paul Carrel BERLIN:  A fall in support and a government row over the refugee crisis raised the heat on German Chancellor Angela...

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY:  Pope Francis asked for forgiveness on Wednesday for scandals at the Vatican and in Rome, an apparent reference...

TEHRAN: Two senior Iranian commanders, one a general, have been killed fighting Islamic State jihadists in Syria alongside President Bashar al-Assad's forces, local...

  By Samia Nakhoul and Nick Tattersall ISTANBUL:  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told Reuters on Wednesday some of the suspects in suicide bombings...

  LONDON: Leftist leader Jeremy Corbyn was facing embarrassment Wednesday in a parliamentary vote on Britain's economy seen as the first big test of...

TEHRAN: Iranian state television broadcast unprecedented footage Wednesday of a deep underground tunnel packed with missiles and launcher units, which officials said could...

By Joseph D'Urso LONDON:  Outsourcing group Serco has apologised to the British government for the "inappropriate" use of a stretch limousine to transport...

WASHINGTON:  Investors poured increasing amounts of cash into startups in the third quarter, defying fears of a bubble in the tech sector, a...