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A crowd of at least 3,000 young Palestinians streamed into central Gaza City to rally for national unity on Monday -- ...

A US court Monday sentenced five Somali pirates to life in prison plus 80 years for the attack last year on a US naval ...

The United Arab Emirates has sent around 500 police to neighbouring Bahrain amid escalating anti-regime protests ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Paris Monday for meetings with Group of Eight world leaders on the ...

Russia`s top nuclear envoy held talks in North Korea on Monday, state media said, amid international efforts to garner ...

Japan`s nuclear safety agency said there is "absolutely no possibility of a Chernobyl" style accident at the Fukushima ...

Japan has officially asked the UN atomic watchdog to send a team of experts to help in the current nuclear crisis, ...

Searchers have found 2,000 bodies in Japan`s quake-hit Miyagi region, public broadcaster NHK and other media Monday ...

Japan`s central bank pumped a record 15 trillion yen ($182 billion) into the financial system Monday and doubled its ...

A US aircraft carrier deployed off tsunami-hit Japan for relief efforts has repositioned after detecting low-level ...

France`s industry minister said Monday the risk of meltdown at a Japanese nuclear plant stricken by a huge earthquake ...

The United States is "deeply concerned" over the continuing deaths and injuries to protesters in Yemen and demanded ...

The United States expressed deep concern over escalating violence in Yemen, where at least three people were killed in ...

About 590,000 people have been evacuated in Japan over the last three days following the devastating earthquake and ...

France is pushing to "speed up" multilateral efforts for a no-fly zone over Libya to curb the civil conflict there, ...