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About 20,000 civil servants in the Gaza Strip went on strike Tuesday to protest the Palestinian unity government's refusal to…

Masked gunmen killed five people in a mostly Shiite area of eastern Saudi Arabia late, as the minority community prepared…

A suicide bombing targeting a major Shiite festival in northeast Nigeria on Monday killed 15 people and injured some 50…

The movie "Paddington" has sparked a resurgence of interest in the bear from darkest Peru, with exhibitions, statues and a…

The Canadian military dropped bombs on Islamic State positions in Iraq for the first time, in support of the US-led…

The bodies of three people were discovered in a car park near a train station in the Swiss Alps town…

An Egyptian court jailed eight men for three years Saturday over a video prosecutors claimed was of a gay wedding,…

Israel decided Thursday evening to reopen Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound hours after ordering its closure and following Arab and US calls for…

Egypt has the right to use a Gaza buffer zone to boost its security, but should also be concerned about…

The United States warned Thursday that it was "deeply concerned" about the crisis unfolding in Burkina Faso and criticized a…