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  Washington: President Barack Obama, in a New Year's address, made fighting gun violence a resolution for 2016, calling it a major piece of...

Kurdish fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG), who are fighting alongside with the Democratic Forces of Syria, captured the Tishrin dam from...

  AMSTERDAM: Dutch police said they arrested a 29-year-old British man at gunpoint at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Friday after he shouted several times...

Olafur Ragnar Grimsson   Reykjavik: Iceland's president announced Friday he was stepping down after 20 years in the job, paving the way for a...

This undated file photo shows Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Iraq Thamer Al-Sabhan. (Asharq Al-Awsat)   BAGHDAD: Saudi Arabia has reopened its embassy in Baghdad,...

  London: William Shakespeare, the Great Fire of London and the Battle of Hastings will appear on British coins this year, marking major anniversaries...

  Ait-Ahmed, Algeria: Tens of thousands gathered in an Algerian village Friday for the burial of Hocine Ait-Ahmed, one of the fathers of the...

  Police say they received tip with names of suspects Two Munich stations closed for several hours Jitters in several capitals over New Year...

  London: With temperatures above freezing at the North Pole, deadly tornadoes in Texas, extreme heat in Australia and floods in Britain and Missouri,...

Civilians flee to a safe area with help from Iraqi security forces in Ramadi city, December 31, 2015. Picture taken December 31, 2015....

  Muscat: Oman will cut spending this year by 15.6 percent in the face of lower oil prices but still face a huge deficit...

Jerusalem: Israel was set Friday to hand over the bodies of 23 Palestinians killed during recent attacks on Israelis, the army said, in...

File photo: Palestinian security officers carry the body of 16-year-old Ibrahim Dawood during his funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday,...

Flames and smoke rise at the site of a suicide car bomb attack at a French restaurant- Le Jardin in Kabul on January...

Joseph Kabila has pardoned nine members of a separatist movement as he pursues a policy of national dialogue (AFP Photo/Daniel Hayduk)   Kinshasa: Democratic...

Demonstrators take part in the annual New Year's Day march with signs on their heads in Hong Kong, China today. Demonstrators are demanding...

  Paris: A French reporter forced to leave Beijing after she criticised government policy in violence-racked Xinjiang arrived home Friday after warning of dark...

German police secure the main train station in Munich, Germany, January 1, 2016. REUTERS   Munich: German police Friday lifted an alert of an...