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Sri Lanka has held secret talks with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on alleged war crimes during the ...

Hamas police on Sunday detained several protesters calling for unity between the Islamist group and its bitter West ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday spoke with new Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, stressing US support ...

Sustained artillery fire was heard on the road to the Libyan flashpoint of Bin Jawad, the site of deadly clashes ...

Egypt on Sunday named its former ambassador to the United Nations, Nabil al-Arabi, as foreign minister in the latest ...

Any international military intervention in Libya would have "absolutely negative" effects, France`s Foreign Minister ...

A warplane struck Ras Lanuf on Sunday, just minutes after rebels holding the Libyan oil town scoffed at state-owned ...

Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen killed four soldiers from Yemen`s elite Republican Guard in an attack east of the capital ...

Moamer Kadhafi said he wanted the United Nations or the African Union to probe the unrest rocking Libya and promised ...

Nine people were killed and 12 injured in a blaze that gutted a pub in central Taiwan early Sunday, firefighters and ...

Algerian police and pro-government activists on Saturday foiled another attempt by opposition protesters to march in ...

A truck and a bus collided in the southern state of Santa Catarina Saturday, killing at least 22 people as Brazil ...

Two US military transport planes landed in Tunisia on Friday with water, blankets and other supplies for people who ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday condemned Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo and his forces for ...

Hundreds of jubilant Libyan rebels cheered and fired into the air, celebrating control of the oil town of Raslanuf on ...