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A man with a history of mental illness stabbed and killed seven people, six of them nurses, at a sanitorium…

A Myanmar army shell killed 23 cadets of an ethnic insurgent group in the deadliest attack since a ceasefire agreement…

Bahraini authorities released pro-democracy activist Zainab al-Khawaja from detention on Wednesday, her lawyer and sister said, as she awaits trial…

The United Nations urged political leaders from around the world on Wednesday to up their game in the fight to…

Almost 36 million people are living as slaves across the globe with an index on Monday listing Mauritania, Uzbekistan, Haiti,…

Veteran diplomat Michel Kafando, just sworn in as Burkina Faso's interim president to oversee a year-long transition to civilian rule,…

Spanish lawmakers were set to stop short of calling on their government to recognise Palestine as a state after the…

In Ebola-hit Sierra Leone people abide by a chaste new set of social norms which can be broken down to…

The reserve estimate for the Aphrodite natural gas field offshore Cyprus has been raised by 12 percent, and most of…

Hamas and Islamic Jihad hailed a Tuesday attack on a Jerusalem synagogue which killed four Israelis, saying it was in…