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At least four militants have been killed by a US drone strike on Sunday (April 14) in Pakistan`s northwestern tribal ...

Guam has raised its official threat level and on Thursday tested its emergency alert system after warnings from North ...

A powerful US military sea-based radar is now in place to detect any possible missile launches by North Korea, ...

The Red Cross has appealed for an additional $43 million to help hundreds of thousands of people in war-torn Mali, and ...

Save the Children on Wednesday urged action after releasing a report claiming that most rape and sexual abuse victims ...

US President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, for what officials said were regular ...

France has withdrawn its first batch of soldiers from Mali, the army said Tuesday, as it begins to pull out troops ...

The US Navy said it is preparing to roll out a sea-based laser weapon capable of disabling small enemy vessels and ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon made an urgent appeal to North Korea on Monday to refrain from "any further provocation", ...

Japan has ordered its armed forces to shoot down any North Korean missile headed towards its territory, a defence ...

A former British intelligence officer claimed that Britain played a role in the assassination of Congolese ...

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas blamed the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday for ...

A Palestinian prisoner, who was serving a life sentence in an Israeli jail, died of throat cancer on Tuesday, the head ...

Bangladesh police have arrested three atheist bloggers for defaming Islam and the prophet Mohammed, police said ...

The United States has placed a destroyer off the South Korean coast to defend against a possible missile strike, the ...