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 Turkey has seen a sharp rise in religious schooling under reforms which President Tayyip Erdogan casts as a defence against moral…

The World Bank said Tuesday that the fallout from the deadly Ebola pandemic will push Guinea and Sierra Leone into…

French lawmakers were due to vote on a highly symbolic motion Tuesday urging the government to recognise Palestine as a…

One of the world's most wanted war criminals, the reputed top lieutenant of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann, is presumed to…

Crude oil prices sunk to fresh low points on Monday, dragging down the share prices of energy companies, while miners…

A lack of funds has forced the U.N. World Food Programme to stop providing food vouchers for 1.7 million Syrian…

The Palestinian Prisoners Media Office in the Gaza Strip announced that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons plan to stage a…

The Israeli army shot and wounded a Palestinian woman on Monday after she stabbed an Israeli civilian near a Jewish…

A leading German pilots' union has called a fresh walkout at Lufthansa starting Monday in an ongoing dispute with the…

Hundreds of Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters faced off against police in a fresh escalation of tensions on Sunday night, as…