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United Nations special rapporteur Margaret Sekaggya arrived in Indian Kashmir Wednesday to review the working ...

US President Barack Obama said Wednesday that Washington and Beijing wanted North Korea to halt "further ...

Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps and a former vice presidential candidate, died Tuesday in suburban ...

Officials who cracked down violently on protests that helped oust Tunisia`s president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali will ...

Two men set themselves ablaze in Egypt on 
Tuesday, security officials said, bringing to 10 the number of such ...

A Palestinian teenager was killed and two other people were wounded on Tuesday as Israeli tanks carried out an ...

A timed bomb blast in a minibus that killed 18 people in Pakistan`s northwest on Monday targeted a Shiite Muslim ...

An oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops in Afghanistan has been gutted after a bomb planted in the vehicle ...

Fighting between the Yemeni army and militants in the southern town of Habilayn killed a woman and injured 11 people, ...

Seventy-eight people have been killed in Tunisia during a month of turmoil, Interior Minister Ahmed Friaa said on ...

Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak was on Monday to quit his Labour party, a key member of the ruling coalition, and ...

Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology ...

A blast caused by exploding gas cylinders ripped through a minibus in a northwest Pakistani town on Monday, killing at ...

Tunisia`s foreign minister will attend an Arab economic summit this week in Egypt to brief his counterparts on ...

A 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck off Tonga`s coast, the US Geological Survey said Monday, but there was no tsunami ...