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South Korea will increase financial aid for separated families who hold privately arranged reunions with their ...

Three rockets fired by militants inside the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel on Saturday without causing casualties or ...

More than 20,000 people have been killed in Syria since the start of an anti-regime revolt in March 2011, the Syrian ...

Olympic organisers said on Thursday that Taiwan`s flag had been taken down from a London display at the request of the ...

Russia urged its Middle East ally Syria on Tuesday to refrain from using chemical weapons despite its threat to ...

Hanoi (ANTARA News/AFP - Vietnam and the Philippines on Tuesday lashed out at China`s moves to establish a military ...

Algeria on Monday rejected an Arab League call for Syria`s President Bashar al-Assad to step down, saying that was a ...

A wave of attacks across Iraq on Monday killed 111 people in the country`s deadliest day in two and a half years after ...

Arab nations have called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to swiftly give up power in order to end his country`s ...

Former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee was elected Indian president on Sunday after votes from national and state ...

Egypt`s President Mohamed Morsi met Palestinian Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal on Thursday, a day after hosting his rival ...

The United States called on Iran to "release all political prisoners" Wednesday, expressing concern for a Kurdish ...

The UN Security Council has expressed "grave concern" about cross-border attacks on Lebanon from Syria. The ...

A Syrian general and several soldiers crossed into Turkey on Monday, a Turkish diplomat told AFP, bringing the number ...

Over 2.5 million people in war-torn Somalia remain in crisis despite huge global aid efforts and the situation may ...