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Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla expressed his condolences over the death of Singaporean former prime minister ...

The health condition of Singapores founding leader Lee Kuan Yew weakened further on Sunday as he battles severe ...

The Islamic State jihadist group claimed responsibility for an attack on foreign tourists at Tunisias national museum ...

Syria's military downed a US UAV (drone) in the country's west because it was snooping in an area where Islamic State ...

Serhiy Nikolayev, a Ukrainian journalist, was killed by shelling in east Ukraine on Saturday, his newspaper said, even ...

US President Barack Obama has requested $8.8 billion to fund the fight against the Islamic State group in his 2016 ...

The UN Security Council condemned Sunday the "heinous and cowardly" murder of a Japanese journalist, after Islamic ...

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Monday that he had not contemplated stepping down, as pressure mounted on ...

New Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is in a similar position to Phaeton, the Greek mythological figure given the ...

Foreign leaders gathered in a cavernous mosque in the Saudi Arabian capital on Friday for the funeral of King ...

Oscar-winning Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway is to star in a New York play about an ace fighter pilot tasked with ...

The decision by Charlie Hebdo to publish a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad this week prompted angry protests in ...

Four people were killed and 45 injured in a day of violent protests in Nigers second city against French magazine ...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday said freedom of the press does not give a licence to insult, ...

A leading association of Muslim academics has criticised the decision by French weekly Charlie Hebdo to publish a new ...