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A Taliban roadside bomb tore through a civilian vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing nine children and ...

Thai authorities have blocked thousands of web pages deemed insulting to the monarchy in the past three months, police ...

The US defense chief held talks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, acknowledging that a series of "deeply troubling" ...

Italy said Wednesday it was closing its embassy in Damascus and repatriating some staff to protest Syria`s ...

Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip for a fourth day Monday, killing four more Palestinians, as a teenager died ...

Kenyan police said Monday they have arrested four people in connection with grenade attacks that killed six people in ...

Gunmen killed eight people in an attack on a jewellery shop on Monday, one of several attacks in and around Baghdad ...

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed shock and sadness at the shooting spree by a rogue US soldier in ...

US President Barack Obama called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday "to express his shock and sadness" over a ...

US drones bombed suspected Al-Qaeda arms caches in a hilly region in Yemen`s restive southern province of Abyan on ...

Ten people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a Catholic church in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, ...

Three Palestinians were killed in new Israeli air raids in Gaza on Sunday, raising the death toll to 18, as militants ...

A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Catholic church in the Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday, killing at least ...

Myanmar`s authorities have censored one of Aung San Suu Kyi`s key election campaign speeches by removing her criticism ...

The United States paid $10 million in each of the past three years to informants in an effort to capture major ...