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A Bahrain court banned the Gulf state's main opposition movement for three months Tuesday just weeks before a parliamentary election,…

Russia announced Tuesday it will recognise separatist polls in Ukraine next weekend, fuelling tensions with the country's newly elected pro-Western…

Gunmen have killed at least 30 people in fresh attacks this week in the strife-torn Central African Republic, UN peacekeepers…

The World Health Organization on Monday declared Nigeria officially Ebola-free, after 42 days -- or two incubation periods -- without…

Turkey on Monday said it was assisting Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters to cross its borders to join Syrian Kurdish forces…

North and South Korean troops briefly exchanged fire Sunday in the latest in a series of minor border skirmishes that…

A second health worker in Texas has tested positive for Ebola, officials said Wednesday, in a new contamination far from…

Iran hit back Tuesday at demands from Saudi Arabia that Tehran withdraw its "occupying" forces from Syria and insisted no…

Israel warned Tuesday that a vote by British parliament in favour of recognising a Palestinian state risked undermining the prospects…

US Secretary of State John Kerry pledged $212 million in aid to Gaza at a donors meeting in Cairo Sunday,…