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Staffan de Mistura   GENEVA: The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria will meet ambassadors from major powers in Geneva on Wednesday, ahead of...

  Strasbourg, France: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Tuesday rapped Hungary over its anti-terror surveillance legislation, saying a 2011 law could...

  Cilacap, Indonesia: A jailed Indonesian firebrand cleric Tuesday challenged his conviction for funding a militant group in court, as a hundreds-strong crowd chanting...

Jaroslaw Kaczynski   BRUSSELS: The European Commission president and Polish prime minister held a lengthy phone conversation on Tuesday evening ahead of an EU...

Donald "Chip" Pugh is pictured in this undated booking photo provided by the Lima Police Department, in Lima, Ohio. Pugh, who is wanted...

Residents who say they have received permission from the Syrian government to leave the besieged town, depart after an aid convoy entered Madaya,...

  Ramallah, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian well-wishers have raised more than $60,000 to rebuild the Halabi family's West Bank home, demolished by Israel after one...

Model Jerry Hall and media magnate Rupert Murdoch arrive at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 10, 2016. Reuters/Mario...

Representative image   Rome: Italy's health ministry said Tuesday that probes into a spate of women dying in childbirth had uncovered issues in the...

    By James Pearson SEOUL: Footage released last week by North Korea purporting to show the firing of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) appears...

Ammon Bundy addresses the media at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, January 5, 2016. REUTERS Jim Urquhart   By Joseph E....

Yemeni pro-regime fighters patrol a street in the southern port city of Aden, on November 1, 2015 (AFP Photo/Saleh al-Obeidi)   Aden: Unidentified gunmen...

Representative image   KABUL: Afghanistan’s chief negotiator in peace talks that began in Pakistan this week said on Tuesday that he was hopeful Taliban...

  JERUSALEM: Israeli soldiers shot dead at least two Palestinians, including an alleged knife-wielding assailant, in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, as four...

The opposition coalition, the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), accuses the court of bias in favor of President Nicolas Maduro   Caracas: Venezuela's opposition-controlled legislature...

The campaign is led by Masooma Ranalvi, a 49-year-old publisher who has launched an online petition in which she describes how she was...

Representative image   Kabul: A special Afghan task force has seized more than a tonne of heroin in a raid on an illegal narcotics...

Daniel Kablan Duncan   Abidjan: Ivory Coast Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan appointed more women Tuesday to his new government, tasked with accelerating economic...