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BAKU: Azerbaijan has voted in favour of extending the presidential term from five to seven years, election authorities said on Tuesday, a step that critics...

Dubai: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will not run for president in next year's Iranian election, he said on Tuesday, bowing to the wishes of supreme leader...

THE HAGUE:War crimes judges on Tuesday sentenced a former extremist rebel who admitted wrecking shrines during Mali's 2012 conflict to nine years in...

LONDON: Pro-business London mayor Sadiq Khan one of the opposition Labour Party's most powerful figures, heaped pressure on his socialist leader Jeremy...

Juba: South Sudan's government urged Sudan and regional states on Tuesday not to let opposition leader Riek Machar launch a new rebellion, after he...

ANKARA: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Tuesday he hoped for a "jumbo" free trade deal with Turkey and backed Ankara's policy...

Colombo: Sri Lankan police on Tuesday exhumed the body of a senior journalist who had predicted just days before his murder in 2009 that he would be killed...

Edinburgh: Scotland wants to have more detail about how the British government plans to leave the European Union to prevent a "hard Brexit" that...

Cairo: Thirty-three bodies were recovered on Tuesday as a wreck of boat that sank off Egypt last week with hundreds of migrants aboard was lifted from the...

Gaza: When Palestinian fisherman Abu Mohammed came under pressure to become an informer for Israeli intelligence, the 45-year-old father of five took a...