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UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Monday hailed the "courage" of Myanmar`s President Thein Sein after an election which saw ...

Syria has agreed to "immediately" start pulling troops out of protest cities, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said ...

Yemen`s army shelled Al-Qaeda hideouts in the southern city of Zinjibar, one of the jihadists` major strongholds, ...

A menu for the last luncheon served to first class passengers on the doomed Titanic sold for £76,000 ($122,000, ...

Hungary`s President Pal Schmitt resigned Monday, after he was stripped last week of his 1992 doctorate title following ...

Al-Qaeda militants killed seven policemen Sunday in an attack on a checkpoint in Yemen`s southeast, a security ...

The Tuareg rebel movement Sunday said it had wrested control of the legendary desert town of Timbuktu, the last ...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon has said he will appoint a replacement for a Swiss judge who quit Cambodia`s Khmer Rouge war ...

Libya`s transitional government head Abdel Rahim al-Kib on Saturday announced that a ceasefire deal has been struck ...

At least 16 people were killed on Saturday in new clashes between the Toubou people and Arab tribesmen in the southern ...

Three bomb attacks minutes apart killed nine people and wounded more than 100 on Saturday in the main town in ...

Eight people, including five suspected Al-Qaeda members, were killed in an air strike and a shooting in Yemen on ...

Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian man in northern Gaza on Friday after a day of protest which saw thousands ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has threatened to nationalize banks and private companies that support the opposition ...

Syria should heed the will of its people by implementing political reforms and allowing free elections, Turkish Prime ...