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Kerbala (Iraq): Iraq is to plant 70,000 date palms south of Baghdad, hoping to revive production of a crop it was famed for across the Middle East. The...

Khartoum: South Sudan's president signed a peace agreement with rebels on Wednesday including a ceasefire to start in 72 hours, Sudan's foreign...

Taos, (New Mexico): Police chiefs from across the United States, both Republicans and Democrats, on Wednesday urged the White House to find alternatives to...

Algiers: Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Tuesday dismissed his powerful police chief, General Abdelghani Hamel, the official news agency APS...

Jos (Nigeria): More than 200 people were killed last weekend in violence in central Nigeria's Plateau state, the state governor said late on...

Kiev: Hackers from Russia are infecting Ukrainian companies with malicious software to create "back doors" for a large, coordinated attack,...

Depok (Indonesia): Unofficial counts in Indonesia's regional elections on Wednesday put candidates favouring President Joko Widodo ahead in three...

Ankara: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan could give his nationalist allies cabinet posts, sources said, rewarding their support for his AK Party in...

Prague: Czech President Milos Zeman appointed a new two-party cabinet led by Prime Minister Andrej Babis on Wednesday, installing a minority government that...

Berlin: The threat of collapse still loomed over Germany's three-month old coalition government on Wednesday after crisis talks into the early hours...