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Some 1,200 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails have begun a hunger strike and another 2,300 are refusing food ...

The World Bank chose Korean-American physician Jim Yong Kim as its next chief Monday in a decision that surprised few ...

The Pentagon said Monday a major attack on Afghan government buildings, military bases and foreign embassies was ...

US President Barack Obama said he expected a "rigorous" investigation into a sex scandal involving Secret Service ...

Syrian forces killed two civilians and were locked in fierce clashes with rebels in one city while bombarding ...

Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Monday said Australia will lift sanctions against Myanmar`s president and more than 200 ...

North Korea will Sunday mobilise tens of thousands for "unprecedented" celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of ...

At least a million people have been displaced inside Syria during a 13-month crackdown on dissent, United Nations ...

Voting began Monday in East Timor`s presidential run-off election, as the young democracy prepares to celebrate its ...

Bomb attacks killed five people in Iraq on Sunday, including three members of a family whose house was blown up north ...

Syria`s opposition on Saturday hailed the UN Security Council resolution on the deployment of observers as a "first ...

All British embassy staff in Kabul have been "accounted for" amid explosions and heavy gunfire in the diplomatic ...

The last Iraqi scientist implicated in late dictator Saddam Hussein`s weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programme is ...

The United States was under growing pressure here Sunday to let Cuba attend future regional summits as Latin American ...

Three children were among four people killed on Sunday in Yemen`s restive east and south by suspected Al-Qaeda ...