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Julian Assange`s lawyer in Britain has accused Swedish authorities of secretly planning to extradite the WikiLeaks ...

Around 79 Indonesians in Queensland have been forced to evacuate to safer places due to the big flood that has been ...

Indonesia has donated one million US dollars to help flood victims in Queensland, Australia, according to a minister. ...

A Sudanese governor wanted by a UN court for war crimes used a UN helicopter to attend a peace meeting, a spokesman ...

Chinese state media on Tuesday carried photos purporting to show the maiden flight of the nation`s first-ever stealth ...

North Korea on Tuesday criticised South Korea`s rejection of its latest call for dialogue and insisted it is sincere ...

A long-awaited nuclear cooperation agreement between Moscow and Washington allowing US companies to sell nuclear ...

South Korea has raised its alert against bird flu to reflect the rapid spread of the disease across the country, the ...

German authorities Tuesday ordered the slaughter of hundreds of pigs after finding high levels of dioxin in pork for ...

Torrential rains killed at least 10 people in Sao Paulo overnight, adding to a wet-season death toll in Brazil`s ...

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Tuesday that Frenchman Michel Kazatchkine has been ...

A major coalition military operation under way in Kandahar has caused about 100 million dollars worth of damage to ...

Two soldiers were killed in clashes between southern militants and Yemeni troops in Lahij province on Monday as Sanaa ...

A Kuwaiti coast guard was killed on Monday in a shootout with Iraqi sailors inside Kuwait`s territorial waters, the ...

A 65-year-old Palestinian farmer was on Monday shot dead by Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian ...