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Inmates at a prison in southern Brazil have taken seven staff hostage in the latest in a series of mutinies…

Agreements on climate change -- to paraphrase what the 19th-century German statesman Otto von Bismarck said about law-making -- are…

Rallies were held in London and The Hague on Monday in support of three Al-Jazeera journalists as they marked a…

Egyptian health authorities on Monday reported the country's 10th death this year from bird flu, as well as the first…

Dozens of Shiite clerics demonstrated in Bahrain on Monday against the detention of opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman by the…

Rescuers battled in the dark to save nearly 300 passengers trapped on a burning Italian ferry as coastguards reported one…

Twitter experienced a partial outage, the nature of which was not immediately clear, the company said."Something is technically wrong," the…

A Yemeni general escaped unscathed on Sunday in a bombing that killed his driver in the southern city of Aden,…

Hong Kong hospitals raised alert levels Sunday as a woman diagnosed with the deadly H7N9 avian flu virus was in…

Sweden may have narrowly avoided snap elections that would have been dominated by a debate on immigration, but with asylum…