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Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron will host German Chancellor Angela Merkel for talks in Paris on Friday, two days before she faces a...

Khartoum: Sudanese security agents arrested the leader of the opposition Communist Party on Wednesday after it organised a protest in the capital Khartoum...

Chennai, India: Efforts to bolster Indian cities against climate change and make them greener must include citizens who are being hit hard by...

MOSCOW: One of Russia's biggest human rights groups said on Wednesday that one of its offices in southern Russia had been badly damaged...

BEIRUT, The main Syrian Kurdish political party called on world powers to stop Turkey's bombardment of the Afrin region in northern Syria. "Afrin...

BEIJING, A mostly Muslim county in western China has banned children from attending religious events over a winter break, an education bureau said...

JAKARTA, Indonesia is deploying military paramedics to carry food and vaccines to a remote part of its easternmost province of Papua, where reports...

Washington: Former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon Tuesday refused to answer questions from a congressional committee probing the president's campaign links to Russia,...

BANGKOK, Thailand’s military court on Wednesday dropped the prosecution of an 85-year-old academic who had been accused of royal insult for questioning the...

United Nations, United States: Greece and Macedonia return to the United Nations on Wednesday seeking to end a dispute that has raged for...

Paris: The name chosen by the small eastern European country of Macedonia at its independence 27 years ago has been steadfastly rejected by...

YANGON: Myanmar police shot dead seven demonstrators and 12 were injured in troubled Rakhine State, after a local gathering celebrating an ancient Buddhist...

San Isidro, El Salvador: Uncertainty and fear are rising in Central American countries over how many families will manage to get by when...

GAZA:  Life began to look up for Gaza’s Palestinians when reconciliation between its Hamas Islamist rulers and the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority in...

GENEVA:  A UN investigator who was denied access to Myanmar will be visiting Bangladesh and Thailand on Jan. 18-30. In December, Myanmar had...

Washington: The United States sent $60 million to keep the UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees operating Tuesday but withheld a further $65...

"I feel scared when I look at my face in the mirror, so imagine what others must feel when they look at me."...

Santiago:  Pope Francis on Tuesday opened his visit to Chile by asking forgiveness for child sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Catholic...