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Immigrants from Syria run in front of a train at Tabanovce border crossing between Macedonia and Serbia, June 19, 2015.   By Michael O'Hanlon...

  By Julia Fioretti, Shadia Nasralla and Francois Murphy BRUSSELS/VIENNA: From Vienna cafes to the European Union's highest court, an Austrian law student's two-year...

SAN FRANCISCO:  Google laid out a plan Wednesday to make tapping into news on mobile devices faster, keeping eyeballs on stories and people...

By Michel Rose PARIS: The economic crisis exacerbated inequalities in some European countries and the effects could be felt for decades as cuts...

  ROME:  The United States will not cooperate with Russia over air strikes in Syria, Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday as Moscow ramped...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Daniel Bases GENEVA/NEW YORK:  Medecins Sans Frontieres on Wednesday demanded an independent international commission to investigate the deadly U.S....

  By Tom Esslemont LONDON:  Women in South Sudan have suffered unprecedented levels of sexual violence in the last two years, including abduction, rape,...

Representational image CHICAGO: A woman in suburban Detroit opened fire on a shoplifter after seeing a security guard chase him out of a...

Algiers: A dangerous terrorist, Bakari Ali nicknamed Abou El-Hacen has been killed and Kalachnikov machine pistol and munitions have been recovered during an...

LONDON: A British court on Wednesday jailed a former bishop with links to the royal family for 32 months after he pleaded guilty...

COLOMBO:  A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday sentenced four government soldiers to 25 years in prison each for the gang rape of a...

HARARE, Zimbabwe: Fourteen elephants were poisoned by cyanide in Zimbabwe in three separate incidents, two years after poachers killed more than 200 elephants...

Moscow: Russian warships joined in strikes in Syria with a volley of cruise missile attacks Wednesday as Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged his...

Strasbourg, France: Failure to act in Syria risks stoking a "total war" in the Middle East, French President Francois Hollande said in a...

A Sotheby's handout photo shows a Cowdray pearl necklace which sold for the exact lower estimate of 35 million Hong Kong (4 million...

MOSCOW:  Vladimir Putin marked his 63rd birthday Wednesday with a focus on Syria, as supporters sang his praises -- comparing him to a...

Ramallah:  Men thought to be undercover Israeli policemen who had infiltrated a group of Palestinian stone throwers shot and wounded three of them,...

AMMAN: A week of Russian air strikes on Syria has left residents of the rebel-held town of Talbiseh, a strategic enclave of opposition...