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GAZA CITY, Palestine: A senior official of the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza warned on Tuesday of a “real disaster” due to...

GENEVA: Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia was elected as the new director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on Tuesday....

NINEVEH, Iraq: At least 13 pro-government fighters were killed in the fight to capture the center of al-Qayrawan district in western Iraq's Mosul...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia Herzegovina: The Albanian authorities confirmed on Tuesday they would launch an investigation against those hiding in Albania suspected of involvement in...

YANGON, Myanmar: Myanmar moved a step closer to ending one of the world’s longest-running conflicts Tuesday when it emerged that three previously barred...

MOSCOW: The settlement of Syrian crisis requires the involvement of external powers, including Iran, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. "We...

TUBAN, Indonesia: Former governor of Indonesia’s capital Jakarta will withdraw an appeal against his two-year jail sentence over blasphemy charges. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama...

MAROUA, Cameroon: Three suicide bombers were killed on Tuesday morning near a market in Cameroon's Far North Region, military officials said. "Suicide bombers...

KABUL, Afghanistan: Taliban in Afghanistan attacked a military base in southern Kandahar province, killing at least 10 troops, officials said Tuesday. Samim Khpalwak,...

Kathmandu: Rescuers found the bodies of four climbers on Mount Everest, an expedition organiser said Wednesday, taking the season's death toll to 10...

Lagos: Nigeria said on Wednesday it had intercepted an illegal cache of arms at the port in Lagos, five months after a similar...

World stocks inched lower on Wednesday after China's sovereign credit rating was downgraded and as investors eyed a pause in Wall Street's four-day...

Emergency powers introduced in 2015 to counter the threat of terrorist attacks will be extended until Nov. 1, President Emmanuel Macron said after...

French President Emmanuel Macron will seek to convince his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump on Thursday to stick to a global deal to combat...

Naypyidaw, Myanmar: Peace talks got underway in Myanmar on Wednesday, with de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi defending her government's stuttering attempts...

Manchester, United Kingdom: Britain ordered soldiers to key sites on Wednesday after going on maximum alert for fear of an imminent new terror...

Beijing: Six miners were killed in a flash flood at a coal mine in northern China, officials said Wednesday. They said five miners...

Nine decades of rule by President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in Mexico's most populous state are hanging in the balance...