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Four Nepalese families lost their British court battle on Friday for the right of Gurkha fighters` adult children to ...

Gunmen shot dead a father, mother and at least three children early on Friday, while a husband and wife were killed in ...

The American death toll in the almost 11-year war in Afghanistan has surpassed 2,000 with the death of a Marine ...

Fifty international NGOs and United Nations agencies on Thursday called on Israel to lift its Gaza blockade, first ...

At least 16 people, including women and children, were killed on Thursday in clashes in Yemen`s southern province of ...

Thousands of Shiite pilgrims headed on foot to a north Baghdad shrine on Thursday to commemorate the death anniversary ...

The UN Security Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution threatening sanctions against groups seen ...

The Falkland Islands will hold a referendum on their political status in 2013, the local government announced Tuesday, ...

The United States has withdrawn negotiators from Pakistan after talks failed to produce an agreement on reopening NATO ...

Fierce clashes between Yemeni troops and Al-Qaeda militants in the southern province of Abyan have killed 28 people, ...

The French defence minister told the US commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan on Monday that Paris was determined to ...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said rivals of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki lack the votes to oust him, stalling ...

Libya on Sunday announced that elections for the country`s constituent assembly, initially slated to be held by June ...

A suicide bomber drove his car at a church in central Nigeria while gunmen opened fire on another church in the ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that the US commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan had "promised" air ...