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Representative image. Riot police fire tear gas and a water cannon at Taksim Square in Istanbul June 15, 2013. Reuters   Ankara: Turkish riot...

London Mayor Boris Johnson arrives back at his home, in London, Britain February 21, 2016. REUTERS, Peter Nicholls   London mayor to campaign to...

File photo. Egypt riot police in Mohamed Mahmoud street during third anniversary of clashes near Tahrir square Cairo Nov 19 2014. Reuters, Amr...

US Secretary of State John Kerry said a provisional deal had been reached on the terms of a truce, as violence intensified on...

Russia's Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu, left, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, 2nd left, attend a gala at the State Kremlin Palace in...

Recent snowfall in the Alps has prompted several reports of avalanches in popular tourist destinations. Representative image, AFP   Geneva: One person was killed...

    Marco Rubio     By Doina Chiacu and Alana Wise WASHINGTON: Marco Rubio emerged from a razor-thin second-place finish in South Carolina’s presidential primary on...

Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria. REUTERS, Akintunde Akinleye   Abuja: President Muhammadu Buhari is to visit the Gulf for a week-long tour, with a focus...

  By Yeganeh Torbati and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin WASHINGTON/DUBAI: An Iranian-American businessman detained in Iran since October has been denied access to his lawyer by...

Matteo Renzi   Rome:  Italian Premier Matteo Renzi on Sunday warned he could call a high-stakes confidence vote in his government in a bid...

  Niamey: Niger, which held elections on Sunday, is an arid, uranium-rich nation south of the Sahara that has faced repeated famines. President Mahamadou...

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou attends the opening ceremony of a flyover road built by Chinese company GSCI in Niamey, September 17, 2013. Reuters/Joe...

Masked Libyan soldiers at a graduation ceremony at the Tripoli air base on November 12, 2014. AFP, Mahmud Turkia   By Ayman al-Warfalli BENGHAZI,...

Julio Guzman   LIMA: Peruvian presidential election favorite Keiko Fujimori is losing ground to technocrat Julio Guzman, whose candidacy faces legal questions, and may...

Syrians gather at the site of a double car bomb attack in the Al-Zahraa neighbourhood of the central Syrian city of Homs on...

Asylum-seeker advocates gather outside Brisbane's Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in support of one-year-old baby Asha in Brisbane, February, 21, 2016. REUTERS, Jamie McKinnell/AAP  ...

Cardinal George Pell gestures as he talks during a news conference for the presentation of new president of Vatican Bank IOR, at the...

Protesters against the Nauru detention centre hang from a bridge above a freeway in Melbourne, Australia, February 11, 2016. Reuters/Tracey Nearmy/AAP SYDNEY: Australia...