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Pakistan on Thursday announced plans to bring its militancy-wracked tribal areas into the mainstream political fold by ending a de...

Egypt's top appeals court on Thursday acquitted ex-president Hosni Mubarak of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011...

Al-Qaeda has confirmed that top leader Abu Khayr al-Masri, believed to be the organisation's number two, was killed in an air...

Seven Syrian torture survivors, two lawyers and a human rights group have filed a criminal complaint in Germany against secret...

The tight US labor market produced another record low for new claims for unemployment insurance last week, which hit the...

Beijing said Thursday it will push a "China solution" to global cyber governance after releasing its first strategy paper outlining...

A US drone on Thursday killed two men riding a motorbike in Pakistan's northwest tribal region, officials said, the first...

Israeli photojournalist David Rubinger, whose picture of Israeli paratroopers gazing at the Western Wall after capturing east Jerusalem was perhaps...

The UN-linked International Narcotics Control Board on Thursday condemned the use of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines, where President Rodrigo...

Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, which government forces are again battling to retake from jihadists, has become a symbol of...

The only North Korean arrested over the dramatic airport assassination of Kim Jong-Nam is to be deported, Malaysia said Thursday,...

A former army general and top aide to President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in Thursday as Sudan's first prime minister...

After putting down his executive pen former US President George W. Bush picked up a paint brush -- and the...

The gunshot rang out as civilians tried to escape the west of Mosul, where Iraqi forces are battling jihadists, killing...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday issued a sharp warning to the private club set to host golf at...

The murder of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un's half-brother in a crowded Malaysian airport has made headlines worldwide --...

Indonesian prosecutors Thursday demanded a one-year jail term for a British former war correspondent on trial for allegedly using hashish...

Tanzanian civil society organisations have launched a year-long campaign calling on the government to respect freedom of expression and assembly....

Japan's royal couple on Thursday listened to the tearful stories of Vietnamese children who were abandoned by their Japanese soldier...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman called Thursday for a united fight against terrorism in a speech to Indonesia's parliament during a...