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Palestine has won a first diplomatic victory in its quest for statehood as UNESCO`s executive committee backed its bid ...

Libya`s new rulers unveiled two mass graves on Wednesday (Oct. 5), a week after they were forced to backtrack on an ...

The executive committee of the United Nations cultural organisation UNESCO on Wednesday (Oct. 5) recommended that the ...

A disgruntled employee killed two people at a California quarry and injured seven in two separate shootings Wednesday, ...

Somalia`s Shebab Wednesday vowed more attacks after a massive car bombing killed more than 70 people in Mogadishu in ...

Rival attacks by suspected Al-Qaeda militants and pro-government militiamen east of the Yemen`s main southern city ...

Syrian state television has aired an interview with a woman who had reportedly been found decapitated, armless and ...

Israel is a "threat" to its region because it owns nuclear weapons, Turkey`s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday reiterated Tehran`s readiness to "immediately" stop production of low ...

The NATO-led force in Afghanistan said Wednesday it had killed another senior member of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani ...

The United States said Monday it expects to meet with its Quartet partners by the weekend in a bid to bring the ...

Gunmen linked to Al-Qaeda on Monday killed four soldiers in southern Yemen, a medic said, a day after at least 25 ...

Egyptian security authorities on Monday detained a man suspected of spying for the Lebanese Islamist group Hezbollah ...

Two suicide bombers struck Afghanistan`s biggest southern city Kandahar on Monday, killing three people, officials ...

Zimbabwe`s President Robert Mugabe has flown to Singapore for a medical check-up, his seventh journey to see doctors ...