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  Al-Qaeda militants have killed two soldiers in Yemen's Abyan province, prompting troops to shell jihadist positions and kill nine extremists,…

Bahraini police wounded several people on Saturday morning when they fired sound bombs, tear gas and bird shot to disperse…

A weekend ceremony honoring the late dictator Augusto Pinochet has triggered a firestorm of controversy, pitting the right to free…

UN monitors finally reached the site of a massacre of villagers in Syria on their second attempt, to be confronted…

The city of Jerusalem is seeking to expand the settlement of Gilo beyond East Jerusalem with 2,500 new homes in…

Malawi said Friday it will not host the African Union summit in July over the bloc's insistence on inviting Sudan's…

An Israeli court cleared the way on Thursday for the deportation of an estimated 1,500 South Sudanese, after rejecting a…

Gunmen fired shots at UN monitors trying to get into a Syrian massacre after the reported massacre of dozens of…

Myanmar's reformist government has launched an official probe into a flare-up of sectarian violence in the west of the country,…

Gaza's sole power station shut down again on Wednesday after running out of fuel, a source at the plant told…