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Three Indian security force personnel and three militants were killed during a gunbattle in a Kashmir district, ...

Typhoon Nesat slammed into the Philippines Tuesday, killing at least one person, a baby, as it brought heavy rain and ...

A general was killed and 30 other troops loyal to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh were taken hostage when ...

China on Monday highlighted its support for the Palestinian bid for full membership of the United Nations but called ...

An Israeli military court decided on Monday to release Al-Jazeera journalist Samer Allawi who was detained on August ...

At least 30 people -- most of them school students -- were killed when a bus crashed on the motorway southeast of ...

The UN Security Council begins consultations Monday on Palestine`s application for full membership of the world body, ...

An Afghan employee killed a U.S. citizen and wounded another in a "shooting incident" at an annex of the U.S. embassy ...

Philippine authorities on Monday ordered more than 100,000 people living along the country`s east coast to evacuate as ...

European Union states on Friday called for "more robust" action from the international fleet in the Indian Ocean to ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has handed over a request for a state of Palestine to be admitted as a full member of the United ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday urged Israel and the Palestinians to seize an offer by the Quartet of ...

The UN Security Council will meet Monday afternoon to discuss a request by the Palestinians to admit the state of ...

A Malaysian beach resort has called off a preview for an international bikini contest after drawing the ire of the ...

Twenty-nine countries from around the world, plus the European Union, on Thursday launched a new multilateral ...