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Cairo: Egypt will host an international conference in March to coordinate humanitarian aid for Yemen, which has been devastated by a civil war, a minister...

Dhaka: An 81-year-old prominent Bangladeshi-British editor was Tuesday released on bail on medical grounds, nearly five months after his arrest for...

PARIS: Paris will house close to 1,000 migrants in two camps to tackle the growing number of men, women and children fleeing war and poverty who are...

Beirut: A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo caused dozens of cases of suffocation on Tuesday,...

DUESSELDORF (Germany): A German man charged with supporting an extremist militant group in Syria stayed silent on the first day of his trial in Duesseldorf...

London/Singapore: Iran signalled on Tuesday it was prepared to work with Saudi Arabia and Russia to prop up oil prices as Tehran began to bargain with OPEC...

EDINBURGH: The Scottish government will start preparing the legislation required for a new referendum on independence from the United Kingdom in case it is...

Beirut: Turkey-backed Syrian rebels would like to see a "safe zone" set up in areas of the border they are capturing from IS, but this would need...

Warsaw: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday that a proposed meeting in Moscow with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be...

Paris/Baghdad: France said on Tuesday it was deploying artillery to Iraq and readying its aircraft carrier for deployment to reinforce foreign military...