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Taiwan`s supreme court has upheld a decision to sentence a businessman to three-and-a-half years in jail for spying ...

At least 25 Burkinabe have been killed in three days of tribal clashes along Burkina Faso's border with troubled Mali, ...

Yemeni troops killed 35 Al-Qaeda militants in overnight battles in the restive southern Abyan province, a military ...

Amnesty International criticized the United States on Wednesday for its use of lethal force, particularly for the ...

Sri Lanka is setting up new courts to accelerate cases against hundreds of Tamil rebel suspects three years after the ...

Gunmen shot dead a Somali radio reporter in the restive capital Mogadishu Thursday, the sixth journalist to be killed ...

A Pakistani surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden was jailed on Wednesday for 33 years for ...

The United States said Tuesday that Ryan Crocker, the US ambassador to Afghanistan, is leaving his job for health ...

Shootings and bombings killed four people and wounded 11 others in central Iraq on Monday, security officials said. ...

Al-Qaeda militants on Monday claimed they raked with gunfire a convoy carrying four US military advisers in Hudaida, ...

Lefitist guerrillas killed 12 Colombian army troops Monday and wounded four others in an ambush in a rural area in the ...

US President Barack Obama vowed Monday the international community would not abandon Afghanistan as it seeks to take ...

French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday that he had reached agreement with his NATO allies over his decision ...

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Sunday voiced concern about violence in Syria, but said the alliance has "no ...

G8 leaders on Saturday praised the "remarkable efforts" of President Thein Sein and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu ...