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Marseille: Eight people were wounded in a shooting in front of a mosque in the southern French city of Avignon in an incident police consider to be a...

Beirut/Damascus: A car bomb killed 20 people in Damascus on Sunday and wounded dozens more, the Syrian foreign ministry said, the first such bombing in the...

Berlin: As anti-globalisation activists took to the streets in Hamburg ahead of this week's G20 summit, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday...

Khartoum: Sudan will extend a unilateral ceasefire with rebels until the end of October, a decree by President Omar Hassan Al Bashir said on Sunday, two...

Thiruvananthapuram: Opposition presidential candidate Meira Kumar on Sunday stressed upon the need to rid the society of caste bias and strive for...

Mogadishu: A roadside bomb struck a minibus north of the Somali capital Mogadishu late on Saturday, killing two people and injuring six others, police...

Diyarbakir (Turkey): Kurdish militants shot and killed two officials from the ruling AK Party in southeast Turkey over the weekend, while the Turkish...

Islamabad: Pakistani authorities believe that two mountaineers, a Spaniard and an Argentinian, missing for over a week in Pakistan's northern Himalayan...

Peshawar: A polio worker has been gunned down by two unidentified men in a northwestern province of Pakistan where the crippling disease remains endemic....

Tokyo: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party suffered an historic defeat in an election in the Japanese capital on Sunday, signalling...