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China will soon dispatch a special envoy to conflict-wracked South Sudan, Beijings foreign ministry said Thursday. In ...

Thailands government Thursday rejected calls to postpone February elections after clashes between police and ...

A senior official in Chinas Ministry of Public Security has been sacked for "disciplinary violations", state media ...

Heavy fighting between government forces and rebels was raging Thursday in South Sudans key oil-producing north, ...

At least 45,000 South Sudanese civilians have sought protection at badly overstretched UN bases amid brutal fighting ...

Assailants set off explosives near a police helicopter as it landed in northern Colombia Monday, injuring two people, ...

Just six months after first leaking National Security Agency secrets in a move that triggered a revaluation of US ...

On the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, commemorated on November 29, the ...

Technical talks between Iran and world powers on how to implement a landmark nuclear deal clinched last month are ...

The governor of Tokyo resigned Thursday after he admitted receiving $500,000 from a hospital tycoon ahead of his ...

The number of journalists killed and imprisoned fell in 2013 but it was still the second worst year on record for ...

US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden plans to seek political asylum in Brazil in exchange for helping investigate US ...

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned China Tuesday against imposing an air defence zone over the South China Sea, ...

Qatar has stressed it has had no direct or indirect contact with Syrias regime, as the head of Lebanons pro-Syria ...

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop will hold talks with Indonesia on Thursday to help repair ties strained by a ...