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Armed Basque separatists ETA announced Monday a permanent, verifiable ceasefire after more than 40 years of bloodshed ...

North Korea Monday officially proposed dialogue with South Korea, less than two months after launching a deadly ...

China`s famed Shaolin Temple has set up over 40 companies overseas as it hopes to spread Buddhist-inspired martial ...

A Saudi court in Medina has sentenced a woman to three years in prison for stabbing, beating and burning her ...

Fifty from the 105 passengers and crew on board an Iran Air plane which crashed in bad weather and broke into pieces ...

At least 20 people have been shot dead in clashes with police late Saturday and early Sunday in two central Tunisian ...

Saudi authorities announced Sunday a list of 47 people wanted for suspected links to Al-Qaeda who are all abroad, the ...

Three people were killed and over 400 injured in riots in Algeria linked to rising food costs and unemployment, the ...

US President Barack Obama said Saturday that the shooting in Arizona which left at least five people dead and a ...

US President Barack Obama said Saturday that a nine-year-old girl and a federal judge were among the dead in a ...

A 15-year-old Philippine schoolboy who was sent alone to sea by his grandmother to fish survived three days adrift ...

South Korea held war games on Friday to simulate an infiltration by North Korean troops across the disputed Yellow Sea ...

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet with Saudi Arabia\'s King Abdullah in New York Friday, where he is ...

US President Barack Obama`s top spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday he will step down and work outside the White ...

A 10-year-old Canadian girl has become the youngest person ever to discover a supernova, or exploding star, according ...