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North and South Korea will hold rare high-level government talks on Wednesday, the South's Unification Ministry announced, ahead of a…

At least 51 people perished in flooding and landslides in a night of torrential rain in the Burundi capital that…

An estimated 70,000 pro-Western Ukrainians thronged the heart of Kiev on Sunday vowing never to give up their drive to…

Turkey scrambled a jet fighter Friday to force down an airliner from Ukraine after a would-be hijacker on board brandishing…

Beijing on Friday dismissed a US official's warning against possible Chinese expansion in the skies over the South China Sea,…

Egypt's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in comments published in a Kuwait paper Thursday he has decided to run…

Sri Lanka's army led an orgy of indiscriminate killing at the climax of the island's civil war, and has since…

Syrian army helicopters carried out new raids over the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, dropping explosive-packed barrel bombs as…

Negotiators representing the Pakistani government and Taliban insurgents are to meet for preliminary peace talks later Tuesday following a spate…

North Korea on Tuesday denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an "Asian Hitler" intent on amassing military power under…