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Polisario separatists have dismissed as "window dressing" Morocco's announcement of a pullback from a zone of the contested Western Sahara...

Israel's Yad Vashem has written to Amazon chief Jeff Bezos urging the internet retail giant to remove books which deny...

The Oscar mix-up that saw "La La Land" mistakenly named as Best Picture before "Moonlight" took the award might be...

The Philippine foreign minister told the UN rights council on Monday that Manila would "destroy criminals" in a defiant defence...

New orders for US manufactured goods rose in January after two straight months of declines, bolstered by a large monthly...

Nightmarish conditions in Libya are helping to drive a surge in the numbers of migrants attempting to reach Italy in...

Israeli aircraft hit targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday, hours after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory slammed...

Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar have told how government forces gang-raped women, slit people's throats and threw children...

A ban on mobile phones, recording devices and "offensive language": the ground rules handed out at Syrian talks reflect the...

Gulf countries must tighten coordination to fight an increasing number of cyber attacks, experts said on Monday, as one official...

Pro-democracy protesters Monday gatecrashed a press conference by Hong Kong leadership hopeful Carrie Lam, displaying banners criticising a "rigged election"...

Polish-French art enthusiast Jerzy Leskowicz is obsessed with first-edition Japanese woodblock prints, and Katsushika Hokusai's iconic 19th-century "The Great Wave...

An Indonesian man collapsed while being publicly caned Monday for spending time with a woman who is not his wife...

The head of EU border agency Frontex on Monday criticised charities that rescue migrants off Libya, arguing that they encourage...

Government air strikes on northwest Syria killed at least 11 people overnight, most of them civilians, the Syrian Observatory for...

The European Union imposed additional sanctions on North Korea on Monday over nuclear and ballistic missile tests carried out in...

Attackers opened fire on a prison bus outside Colombo on Monday, killing five prisoners and two armed guards in the...

An air strike has killed an Afghan Taliban commander who twice oversaw the capture of a strategic northern city, officials...

Iraqi forces battling the Islamic State group in west Mosul reached the city's southernmost bridge Monday, a key step in...

Israeli politicians and ex-generals are scrambling for cover ahead of the publication on Tuesday of a report expected to slam...