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 Talks aimed at ending the war in Syria took a first tentative step forward on Wednesday as both sides agreed…

Libya's Deputy Prime Minister Sadiq Abdulkarim survived an assassination attempt in the capital Tripoli on Wednesday, the prime minister's office…

South African police said Wednesday they had shot dead two protestors in a northern village during a seige a day…

President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to bypass a divided Congress and take action on his own to bolster America's…

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen criticized Russia on Wednesday for pressuring Kiev not to sign a free trade pact…

UN nuclear inspectors arrived in Iran on Tuesday to visit a uranium mine, Iranian media reported, as part of a…

 The family of a mentally ill British man sentenced to death in Pakistan for blasphemy have urged London to intervene…

Thailand's government wants controversial elections to go ahead this weekend, a deputy prime minister said Tuesday, despite threats by opposition…

The United Nations food agency is ready to deliver a month of rations to the Old City of Homs in…

Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned on Tuesday in a bid to ease Ukraine's deadly two-month crisis as lawmakers began…