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France demands assurances that Assad will leave power

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius demanded that talks on Syrias future yield assurances that President Bashar ...

Saudi reopens Baghdad embassy after 25 years

Saudi Arabia reopened its embassy in Baghdad Tuesday, a quarter of a century after relations were broken over Iraqs ...

Saudi forms 34-nation anti-`terrorist` military coalition

Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday the formation of a military coalition of 34 countries including Gulf states, Egypt and ...

Turkey-Russia summit cancelled: Kremlin

Russia on Monday said a summit between President Vladimir Putin and Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan pencilled ...

Trump postpones trip to Israel

Donald Trump announced Thursday he was postponing his planned trip to Israel, just a day after the Jewish states prime ...

Russia building new military bases on islands claimed by Japan

Russia has begun building two modern military compounds on the far eastern Kuril islands, defence minister Sergei ...

Russian deserter detained after more than 10 years of hiding in forest

Police have apprehended an army deserter who hid in a forest in eastern Russia for more than a decade and kept his ...

Christians, Muslims are `brothers`, Pope says

Pope Francis on Monday said Christians and Muslims were "brothers", urging them to reject hatred and violence on a ...

Turkey sends corpse of shot down pilot back to Russia: Reports

Turkey on Monday sent back to Russia the corpse of a pilot killed when his plane was shot down by the Turkish air ...

Japan to lift some sanctions on North Korea: PM Abe

Japan will revoke some of its unilateral sanctions on North Korea, the prime minister announced Thursday, after talks ...

Tembakan ke masjid Thailand tewaskan seorang pria

Sejumlah pria bersenjata melepaskan tembakan di satu masjid di Thailand selatan yang dilanda pemberontakan, Senin, ...

Nepal PM diagnosed with tuberculosis: party spokesman

US doctors treating Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala have ruled out lung cancer and diagnosed the 75-year-old ...

IMF: corporate tax schemes hurt developing countries

Developing economies are increasingly hurt by the way global corporations exploit taxation differences and move ...

Suicide blast kills three in northeast Nigeria: residents

A suicide bomber on Sunday rammed his car into a military checkpoint in northeast Nigerias Borno state near the border ...

Militants seize more Iraq towns as U.S. presses unity

Sunni militants advanced in western Iraq and killed 21 people after security forces left several towns, while Americas ...