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The Afghan Local Police, branded by some critics as an incompetent Taliban-linked militia, is one of the many security ...

Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi arrived in Ramallah on Saturday for a visit to the West Bank, an AFP correspondent ...

Outgoing US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who fell ill in early December and hasn`t been seen in public since, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, head of the conservative Liberal Democratic Party, on Wednesday launched his ...

More than 45,000 people have been killed in Syria since the outbreak in March 2011 of an anti-regime revolt that ...

Japan`s new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday unveiled his cabinet, appointing former premier Taro Aso as his ...

Japan`s conservative leader Shinzo Abe is to be named as the country`s new prime minister Wednesday, after he swept to ...

In the heart of Damascus, more than 1,000 people attended Christmas mass on Monday, praying for peace to return to ...

Tourists flocking to Guatemala for "end of the world" parties have damaged an ancient stone temple at Tikal, the ...

The US Navy is investigating the death of a top SEAL officer in Afghanistan as an apparent suicide, CNN reported ...

Ailing Iraqi President Jalal Talabani left for Germany on Thursday for further treatment after suffering a reported ...

South Africa`s former president Nelson Mandela remained in hospital for a ninth straight day on Sunday as he recovered ...

In the end it took an act of Congress, but US television advertisers are finally required to do something parents have ...

Singapore`s parliamentary Speaker announced his resignation Wednesday after confessing he had an extramarital affair ...

Iran`s Revolutionary Guards claimed on Tuesday to have "captured" a small US drone over Gulf waters after it entered ...