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Uzbekistan's president Islam Karimov, who has built his authoritarian rule on warnings of a militant Islamist threat to the Central…

Triggering the procedure for Britain to exit the European Union is like turning off the engines on an airplane, a…

China is hoping to cement its standing as a global power when it hosts leaders from the world's biggest economies…

Weeping relatives hugged each other and reached out to touch the simple wooden coffins at a state funeral on Saturday…

The secretive communist government of Laos, a country with a population of less than 7 million, rarely causes a ripple…

The European Union grinds back into action this week after its August break, still dazed by Britain's midsummer vote to…

President Robert Mugabe warned protesters on Friday there would be no "Arab Spring" in Zimbabwe after anti-government demonstrations descended it…

Protesting Bolivian miners on Friday abandoned a roadblock where a day earlier they kidnapped a government deputy minister, who was…

Bangladesh security forces killed four militants on Saturday, including the alleged mastermind of an attack on a cafe in Dhaka…

France's highest administrative court on Friday suspended a controversial ban on the burkini by a French Riviera town after it…