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Baghdad/Bartella (Iraq): IS militants retreating in the face of a seven-week Iraqi military assault on their Mosul stronghold have hit back in the last two...

Beirut: Rebels in Aleppo have told the United States they will not leave their besieged enclave in the city after Moscow called for talks with Washington...

Washington: US President-elect Donald Trump's phone conversation with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Friday, which prompted a diplomatic protest from...

RIO DE JANEIRO: Demonstrators marched in major cities across Brazil on Sunday, protesting government corruption and a recent vote in Congress that was...

MADRID: The heaviest rainfall in years along Spain's southern coastline has flooded the streets of the city of Malaga and nearby towns, killing one...

Cairo: Egypt has sharply raised customs duties on more than 300 goods to encourage domestic production and curb a ballooning trade deficit, prompting fears...

ANTANANARIVO: Family members of those lost aboard a Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing in 2014 criticised Malaysian investigators on Sunday for not...

Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Sunday criticised the Myanmar government and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi over the...

HELSINKI:Three women including a local politician and two journalists were shot dead with a rifle in front of a restaurant in the small Finnish town of...

Paris: French voters elected Francois Hollande in 2012 on promises to fix the floundering economy. Five years on, he is leaving much unfinished work to his...