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Somali pirates seized an Iranian-owned cargo ship and its 23-strong crew in the first hijacking within Maldivian ...

An ISAF soldier was shot dead by an "alleged member" of the Afghan police in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the ...

President Barack Obama told the leaders of North Korea Monday that the United States has no hostile intent towards ...

Baghdad will host an Arab summit from March 27-29, the first time such a gathering has been held in Iraq in more than ...

President Barack Obama will Monday commit to raising the possibility of fresh nuclear arms cuts with new Russian ...

Afghan police in the southern province of Kandahar have seized at least 17 tonnes of explosives insurgents were ...

Suspected Al-Qaeda gunmen have killed an army officer and wounded two soldiers in an ambush in southern Yemen, a ...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has called for a national conference on April 5 aimed at bridging sharp political ...

South Korean environment activists protested Sunday, calling for world leaders to abandon atomic energy completely as ...

Blasts rocked the flashpoint city of Homs on Sunday as Syria`s regime pressed its assault on protest hubs, while ...

A foreign soldier and seven policemen were among nine people killed in an improvised explosive device attack in the ...

Arab League Secretary General Nabil al-Arabi arrived in Baghdad on Sunday ahead of this week`s Arab summit in the ...

US President Barack Obama visited the tense inter-Korean border Sunday, calling it "freedom`s frontier", as he weighs ...

A senior US official has warned North Korea`s upcoming rocket launch would be aimed south for the first time and ...

At least three soldiers were killed after dozens of Taliban militants stormed a check post in Pakistan`s northwest ...