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Chippenham (UK)/Brussels: European Council President Donald Tusk set out a plan on Tuesday for keeping Britain in the European Union to a mixed reception...

Beirut/Amman/Geneva: A Syrian military offensive backed by heavy Russian air strikes threatened to cut critical rebel supply lines into the northern city of...

Beirut: Lebanon's government is so dysfunctional, Beirut stinks. And now it's getting dangerous. Six months ago, the authorities shut the main...

Rome: An international coalition is pushing back IS militants in their Syrian and Iraqi strongholds but the group is threatening Libya and could seize the...

London: Jordan's King Abdullah II says his country needs long-term aid from the international community to cope with a huge influx of Syrian refugees,...

Baghdad: Tens of thousands of trapped Iraqi civilians are running out of food and medicine in the western city of Fallujah, an IS stronghold under siege by...

Istanbul/Polikastro: Nine people, including two babies, were found drowned off the coast of western Turkey on Tuesday after a boat carrying people to Greece...

Geneva/Sydney: The Zika virus linked to a microcephaly outbreak in Latin America could spread to Africa and Asia, with the world's highest birth rates,...

Seoul: China's envoy for the North Korean nuclear issue arrived in the capital, Pyongyang, on Tuesday, the North's KCNA news agency reported, amid a...

Beijing: More than 50,000 passengers were stranded at a railway station in the Chinese city of Guangzhou on Tuesday because of weather delays, state media...