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Six stories you may have missed because of US election Iraqi Kurdish forces seized the town of Bashiqa near Mosul ...

Pakistan has deported Sharbat Gula, the "green-eyed Afghan girl" in the renowned 1985 National Geographic photo, for using fraudulent identity ...

He went out drinking in the city of Yangon said by his wife. In a statement seen by the BBC, ...

Outraged Moroccan students in the northern city of Al-Hoceima boycotted schools on Monday and took to the streets in new ...

Thousands of Moroccans have held protests in several towns and cities after a fish seller was crushed to death in ...

The rainbow flag, which represents the LGBT community, was visible across Taipei on Saturday. Tens of thousands of people have ...

Two strong earthquakes have hit central Italy, damaging buildings and injuring dozens of people. A 5.5-magnitude quake struck at 19:10 ...

An official said the killings were to avenge the death of one of ISIL's commanders Fighters have killed at least ...

More than 1,200 police and officials in France have begun an operation to clear the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais. ...

A cash shortage has led to long queues at many of the country's banks Zimbabwe has paid the International Monetary ...

Fighters from the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group have attacked government buildings in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, killing at ...

Facebook has removed a video on breast cancer awareness posted in Sweden after it considered the images "offensive", a group ...

At least six people have been killed and several injured after a suicide attacker drove a bomb-laden car into a ...

The last king of Rwanda has died in the US aged 80 years old. Born Jean-Baptiste Ndahindurwa, King Kigeli V ...

Iraqi pro-government forces have made gains at the start of a large-scale operation to retake Mosul, the last major stronghold ...

The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew – the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade ...

The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew - the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade ...

Ethiopia and Djibouti have launched the first fully electrified cross-border railway line in Africa. It links Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, ...

Analysis of satellite imagery taken after a deadly attack on an aid convoy in northern Syria last month shows that ...

An air raid on the rebel-held eastern half of the Syrian city of Aleppo has hit the area's largest hospital ...