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Cuba denied entry to a Taiwanese mayor and acting chief of its main opposition party earlier this week, her party said ...

Kevin Rudd on Friday announced he would challenge Prime Minister Julia Gillard for the leadership of Australia`s ...

Yemeni security forces shot dead a southern activist and wounded six others at Mukalla in the southeast on Thursday ...

Palestinian militants fired a rocket at southern Israel on Thursday evening, hitting an empty field and causing no ...

Somalia`s Al-Qaeda allied Shebab fighters are close to collapse, with large numbers fleeing the war-torn country for ...

Hundreds of armed tribesmen on Thursday rallied against US drone attacks in Pakistan`s lawless tribal belt, demanding ...

US President Barack Obama sent Afghan President Hamid Karzai a letter of apology over the burning of copies of the ...

The leader of the Moscow-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday ...

Truckloads of Ethiopian and Somali troops on Wednesday captured the strategic Somali city of Baidoa from Al-Qaeda ...

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency whose officials wound up a two-day visit to Tehran on Tuesday are to ...

The United States supports calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in Syria to bring relief to civilians caught up in a ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday invited the Taliban leadership to direct talks with his government, while ...

Fierce clashes between two tribes in Libya`s remote southeastern desert have killed more than 100 people over the past ...

Russia on Tuesday said it would not attend an international conference in Tunis this week aimed at seeking political ...

US President Barack Obama has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the White House for talks on ...