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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will hand over a formal application for the state of Palestine to be granted full ...

Israel on Friday will raise its level of security alertness in case unrest accompanies Palestinian president Mahmud ...

Turkey`s Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc dismissed a proposal by French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the United ...

Myanmar democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has won this year`s Chatham House prize for her contribution to the ...

Tunisia said Thursday it had arrested and jailed Baghdadi al-Mahmudi, Libya`s prime minister under fugitive ex-leader ...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas is set to ask the United Nations on Friday that the Palestinians are granted UN ...

Palestinians on Thursday slammed US President Barack Obama`s United Nations address a day earlier, calling it a ...

Over 2,700 people have been killed in Syria`s bloody crackdown on protestors, the Office of the United Nations High ...

The plane carrying two US hikers, released from Iran after more than two years in jail on charges of spying and ...

UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Israel`s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to act with "restraint" and ...

South Africa, a key UN Security Council member, "fully supports" the Palestinian bid for full membership of the United ...

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman on Wednesday threw his country`s backing behind the Palestinian drive for full UN ...

NATO allies on Wednesday agreed to extend their air campaign in Libya by another 90 days, diplomats said, as forces ...

Attacks in Baghdad and north of the capital Wednesday killed six people, including four Iraqi soldiers, security ...

Starbucks is being sued for $3 million by a tourist from Virginia who says his five-year-old daughter found a video ...