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US President Barack Obama is set to dive into the tumultuous diplomatic waters of the South China Sea on Tuesday at a ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged all sides to the Gaza conflict to immediately cease their fire, warning at a ...

A Palestinian family of four died in one Israeli attack Monday while two brothers were killed in another on the ...

An Israeli air strike early on Monday killed three Palestinians in a car in central Gaza, medics said, raising the ...

Southeast Asian leaders on Sunday endorsed a human rights declaration which they called a breakthrough for the region ...

Israeli strikes on Gaza killed nine Palestinians and destroyed the Hamas government headquarters on Saturday as Israel ...

A senior Iranian official has denied his country supplied the Fajr 5 missiles which Palestinian militants have been ...

Jordan`s King Abdullah II on Saturday (Nov. 17) ordered the dispatch of urgent humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the ...

The Israeli army started calling up 16,000 reservists on Friday, as officials said the Jewish state was preparing for ...

A four-star general who headed US Africa Command has been demoted amid charges he spent hundreds of thousands of ...

The sex scandal that doomed CIA chief David Petraeus has ensnared another top US general and is becoming ever more ...

Senior FBI and CIA officials are set to brief top lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Tuesday about their investigation of an ...

After a convincing re-election victory, President Barack Obama looks set for another four years of reorienting the ...

China is to ramp up development on a disputed South China Sea island, a local government chief has said, in a move ...

The UN`s refugee agency warned Friday that an outbreak of hepatitis E among refugees in South Sudan was worsening and ...